African leaders highlight UN’s ability to support countries and rid world of fear and violence The UN has played a significant role in reducing conflicts on the African continent and in other parts of the world was a message underlined by a number of #African leaders who addressed the #UnitedNations General #Assembly today during the annual general debate. “#Namibia is a child of international solidarity, midwifed by the United Nations,” Hage G. Geingob, the Namibian #President, told world leaders from the podium. “After the termination of #SouthAfrica’s mandate over the then South #WestAfrica, the United Nations assumed direct responsibility over Namibia.” Namibia attained independence in 1990, and, according to President #Geingob, was able to develop the necessary building to construct its #democracy thanks to the #UN. “We are in the process of establishing a new #Africa, with its own narrative as told by its sons and daughters,” the President continued. “Africa has turned a new leaf, bidding farewell to the days of coup d’états and embracing electoral democracy. We as Africans, through the #AfricanUnion, have ostracized those who come to office through unlawful ways.” The Namibian leader explained that the recent coup in #BurkinaFaso is an example of the continent’s zero tolerance policy towards those who come to power through illegal ways, and called for the establishment of processes, systems and institutions to ensure #electoral democracy. Full article on www.igniteafrica.tv/blog #igniteafrica #igniteafricatv
