Good management of diversity and fair political representativeness remain crucial to the successful holding of elections and the deepening of democracy on the African continent, says the 3rd edition of the African Governance Report (AGR III), which was launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday.
Barak Barfi
ANTALYA – The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Hiftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country’s dysfunctional central government, whose power is limited to the capital, Tripoli, can rule effectively. But determining how to bring peace and stability to Libya’s deeply fragmented society will require more than an assessment of this government’s mistakes; it will demand careful consideration of former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s failures – and his successes.
Hiftar believes that the key to solving Libya’s myriad crises lies in establishing a strong national army capable of subduing the Islamists who are destabilizing the country. Others continue to advocate for national reconciliation. But neither solution addresses what is really driving events in Libya: the legacy of Qaddafism.
African lawyers must strike a balance between the interests of their clients and that of society, especially with regards to the illegal outflows of money from the continent – says South Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki who heads the Economic
Commission for Africa-African Union High-level Panel (HLP) on Illicit Financial Outflows from Africa. Mr Mbeki’s remarks came at the start of the Triennial General Assembly of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
