{"id":191567,"date":"2025-02-16T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-what-the-new-african-union-leaders-should-prioritise-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:29:48","slug":"africa-what-the-new-african-union-leaders-should-prioritise-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-what-the-new-african-union-leaders-should-prioritise-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: What the New African Union Leaders Should Prioritise in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Cape Town \u2014 <em>The African Union chose its new leadership, and now faces several peace and security challenges which the International Crisis Group (ICG) described as &#8220;forbidding&#8221;. This is an extract of ICG&#8217;s briefing points to eight areas where the organisation can put its diplomatic weight to particularly good use. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/african-union-regional-bodies\/b205-eight-priorities-african-union-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>For more, read the full February 6 briefing with graphics.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/african-union-regional-bodies\/b205-eight-priorities-african-union-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1. Renewing AU Leadership on Peace and Security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"165\">The forthcoming AU leadership votes come at a consequential moment for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502160054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 The African Union chose its new leadership, and now faces several peace and security challenges which the International Crisis Group (ICG) described as &#8220;forbidding&#8221;. This is an extract of ICG&#8217;s briefing points to eight areas where the organisation can put its diplomatic weight to particularly good use. For more, read the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":191568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661447:1778f46887fc7dfc99444124bdfcca84:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4380,415,4381,257,11956,254,6156],"class_list":["post-191567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-egypt-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-prioritise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661447:1778f46887fc7dfc99444124bdfcca84:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}