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RESOLUTION ON THE QUESTION OF COMORIAN ISLAND 
 
OF MAYOTTE 
 
 
 
The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of 
African Unity, meeting in its Twenty-Ninth Ordinary Session in Cairo, Egypt, 
from 28 to 30 June, 1993, 
 
 
Bearing in mind Resolution CM/Res.496 (XXVIII) establishing OAU Ad 
Hoc Committee of Seven on the Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte, 
 
 
Recalling the relevant OAU resolutions on the Question of the Comorian 
Island of Mayotte particularly Resolution AHG/Res.193 (XXVI), 
 
 
Recalling further the relevant resolutions and recommendations of the UN, 
the on-Aligned Movement, Islamic Conference and the League of Arab States on 
the Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte, 
 
 
Considering the fundamental principles of the OAU Charter on the 
sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, 
 
 
Reiterating the legitimate claims of the Comorian Government regarding 
the reintegration of the Comorian Island of Mayotte into the Federal Islamic 
Republic of Comoros, 
 
 
 
 
Recalling the Programme of Action recommended by the OAU Ad Hoc 
Committee, contained in document Cttee.7/Mayotte/Rec. 1 – 9 (II) adopted in 
Moroni in November, 1981, 
 
Taking into account the activities being undertaken by the Indian Ocean 
Committee (IOC) to promote regional cooperation among its Member States: 
 
 
1. TAKES NOTE of the report of the Chairman of the OAU Ad Hoc 
Committee of Seven on the Question of the Comorian Island of 
Mayotte;  
 
 
2. REAFFIRMS the sovereignty of the Federal Islamic Republic of the 
Comoros over the Comorian Island of Mayotte;  
 
 
3. REAFFIRMS its solidarity with the Comorian people in their 
determination to recover their political integrity and to defend their 
sovereignty and territorial integrity.  
 
 
4. APPEALS to the French Government to accede to the legitimate 
claims of the Comorian Government in accordance with the relevant 
decisions of the OAU, the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement, the 
Islamic Conference and the League of Arab States;  
 
 
5. INVITES OAU Member States to take every step, individually and 
collectively, to inform and sensitize the French and international 
public opinion on the Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte in 
order to bring the French Government to end its occupation of 
Mayotte;  
6. APPEALS to all OAU Member States and the international community of 
categorically condemn and reject all forms of consultations to be organized 
by France on the Comorian territory of Mayotte regarding the 
international legal status of the Island specially as the referendum of self-
determination conducted n 22 December 1974 remains the only valid 
consultation applicable to the entire Archipelago; 
 
 
 
7. APPEALS to all OAU Member States and the international community to 
condemn any initiative take by France to make the Comorian Island of 
Mayotte participate the activities that might differentiate it from the 
Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros; 
 
 
8. CHARGES the OAU Ad-Hoc Committee of Seven on the Question of the 
Comorian Island of Mayotte and the OAU Secretary-General to resume 
dialogue with the French authorities bearing in mind the recent declaration 
made in Rome in June 1990 for a rapid settlement of the Comorian issue;  
 
 
 
9. URGES the OAU Ad-Hoc Committee on the Question of the Comorian Island 
of Mayotte and the OAU General Secretariat to meet in Moroni before the 30
th
 
Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the 
OAU to consider possible ways and means of facilitating the convening of the 
Tripartite Conference;  
 
10. REQUESTS that the Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte 
remains on the Agenda of all the Sessions of the OAU, UN, the Non-
Aligned Movement, the Islamic Conference and the League of Arab 
States until the Island is restored to the Federal Islamic Republic of 
the Comoros;  
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EX.CL/Dec.357 (XI)  
 
 
DECISION ON THE PROTOCOL ON RELATIONS BETWEEN THE AFRICAN 
UNION AND THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (RECS) 
DOC. EX.CL/348 (XI) 
 
The Executive Council: 
 
 
1. TAKES NOTE of the Report on the Protocol on Relations between the African 
Union and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs); 
 
2. ADOPTS the Protocol and recommends its endorsement by the Assembly; 
 
3. RECOMMENDS that the Assembly authorizes the Chairperson of the 
Commission to sign the Protocol on behalf of the Commission of the African 
Union.  
 
 
 
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DECISION ON THE 19™ ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS • (Doc. EX.CL/236 (Villi)
The Assembly:
1. ADOPTS and authorize, in accordance with Article 59 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the Charter), the publication of
the 19th Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and its annexes, except for those containing
the Resolutions on Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Uganda and
Zimbabwe;
2. REQUESTS the concerned Member States to make available to the
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights within three (3)
months of the adoption of the present Decision, their views on the said
Resolutions and the ACHPR to submit a Report thereon to the next
Ordinary Session of the Executive Council;
3. CALLS UPON the ACHPR to ensure that in future, it enlists the
responses of all States parties to its Resolutions and Decisions before
submitting them to the Executive Council and/or the Assembly for
consideration;
4. REQUESTS States parties, within three (3) months of the notification
by the ACHPR, to communicate their responses to Resolutions and
Decisions to be submitted to the Executive Council and/or the
Assembly;
5. WELCOMES the entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter
on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on
25th November 2005 and URGES Member States which have not yet
done so to ratify/accede to the Protocol;
6. REITERATES its request to the AU Commission to allocate adequate
resources from its operational budget to the ACHPR as provided for in
Article 41 ofthe Charter to enable the ACHPR discharge independently
its mandate under the Charter;
7. URGES Member States, which have not yet done so, to present their
outstanding periodic reports to the ACHPR in accordance with Article
62 of the Charter;
8. REQUESTS the ACHPR to complete, as soon as possible, the work
undertaken on its relations with the various organs and institutions of
the African Union, including the African Court on Human and Peoples'
Rights; and to submit to it, appropriate recommendations relatinq
thereto; a
9. ALSO REQUESTS the ACHPR to take part in the process of
operationahzation of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
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Election of the Chairperson of the Commission and taking note of the fact that neither of the two (2) candidates has obtained the required majorit

The Assembly

Assembly/AU/Dec. 414 (XVIII) 
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DECISION SUR L’ELECTION DES MEMBRES DE LA COMMISSION 
 
La Conférence,  
 
Ayant procédé à l’élection du Président de la Commission et prenant note du fait 
qu’aucun des deux candidats n’a obtenu la majorité requise, 
 
1. DECIDE CE QUI SUIT : 
 
(i) suspendre l’élection des membres de la Commission, conformément 
au Règlement intérieur de la Conférence ;2 
 
(ii) prolonger le mandat des membres actuels de la Commission jusqu’à 
la prochaine session ordinaire de la Conférence ; 
 
(iii) créer un Comité ad hoc de Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement, composé 
d’un (1) Etat membre par région, ainsi que de la République du Bénin 
en sa qualité de Président en exercice de l’Union, de la République 
Gabonaise et de la République de l’Afrique du Sud, et chargé 
d’examiner les questions liées à la prochaine élection des membres 
de la Commission ; 
 
2. DEMANDE à la Commission de prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires 
pour la mise en œuvre de la présente décision et AUTORISE le Comité des 
Représentants permanents (COREP) à approuver les dépenses 
nécessaires à cet effet. 
 
 
                                                            
2 Réserve émise par la République du Botswana.  
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Opinion Partiellement Dissidente des Juges Gerard Niyungeko et Rafaa Ben Achour  Datee 28 Mars 2019

Draft declaration and plan of action on drug control abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Africa

AHG/St.2 (XXXVI)
STATEMENT ON NIGER
The Assembly noted with satisfaction the Agreements with the various fronts which had
carried out rebellion in Niger. Those Agreements were concluded thanks to an internal
dialogue and the support of the mediating countries inside and outside Africa. As those
Agreements enabled the restoration of peace and stability in the country, Niger is
preparing to organize on 25 September, 2000 a symbolic ceremony called the "Flame of
Peace", a ceremony during which the arms which were used for the rebellion will be
publicly burnt thus marking the definitive restoration of peace and sealing national
reconciliation.
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AHG/DECL.3 (XXIX) 
 
 
DECLARATION OF THE ASSEMBLY OF HEADS OF STATE AND 
GOVERNMENT ON THE ESTABLISHMENT WITHIN THE OAU OF 
A MECHANISM FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT 
AND RESOLUTION 
 
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, 
meeting in our Twenty-ninth Ordinary Session in Cairo, Egypt, from 28 - 30 June 
1993, having considered the situations of conflict in our Continent and recalling 
the Declaration we adopted on 11
th
 July 1990, on the Political and Socio-Economic 
Situation in Africa and the Fundamental Changes Taking Place in the World, 
declare as follows: 
 
1. In May 1963, when the Founding Fathers met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to 
found the Organization of African Unity, they were guided by their collective 
conviction that freedom, equality, justice and dignity are legitimate aspirations 
of the African peoples, and by their desire to harness the natural and human 
resources for the advancement of the Continent in all spheres of human 
endeavour. The Founding Fathers were inspired by an equally common 
determination to promote understanding between the African peoples and co-
operation among the African States, and to rekindle the aspirations of the 
African people for brotherhood and solidarity in a larger unity transcending 
linguistic, ideological, ethnic and national differences.  
 
2. The Founding Fathers were fully convinced that to achieve these lofty 
objectives, conditions for peace and security must be established and 
maintained.  
 
3. It was with this overriding conviction, and guided also by the Charter of the 
United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that our 
countries began on the arduous task of meeting the triple challenge of  
decolonization,   economic   development   and   maintenance   of   peace   and 
 
security. 
 
4. Today, thirty years later, we can look back with pride at the achievements 
which the Organization of African Unity has been able to make against 
heavy odds and the many obstacles it has had to surmount.  
 
5. The ranks of independent countries have been strengthened; and the 
membership of the OAU has increased from thirty-two at its founding to 
fifty-two today. The frontiers of freedom in Africa have been pushed to the 
doors of Apartheid South Africa. And even there, significant progress has 
been made; and we have reasonable cause for optimism that we shall soon 
see the total eradication of the remaining vestiges of colonialism, racism, 
racial discrimination and apartheid.  
 
6. We, however, continue to be faced by the daunting dual challenge of 
economic development and democratic transformation. Our countries have 
made tremendous efforts both individually and collectively to arrest and 
reverse the decline in our economies. Notwithstanding the many serious 
difficulties they have encountered, and the magnitude of what remains to be 
done, appreciable progress has been made in the social and economic fields.  
 
7. The socio-economic situation in our Continent remains nonetheless in a 
precarious state. Factors including the poverty, the deterioration of the 
terms of trade, plummeting prices of the commodities we produce, the 
excruciating external indebtedness and the resultant reverse flow of 
resources have combined to undermine the ability of our countries to 
provide for the basic needs of our people. In some cases, this situation has 
been further compounded by external political factors.  
 
8. We do recognise, however, that there have also been certain internal 
human factors and policies which have negatively contributed to the 
present state of affairs on the Continent.  
 
9. No single internal factor has contributed more to the present socio-economic  
problems in the Continent than the scourge of conflicts in and among our 
countries. They have brought about death and human suffering, 
engendered hate and divided nations and families. Conflicts have forced 
millions of our people into a drifting life as refugees and displaced persons, 
deprived of their means of livelihood, human dignity and hope. Conflicts 
have gobbled-up scarce resources, and undermined the ability of our 
countries to address the many compelling needs of our people. 
 
10. While reaffirming our commitment to the Declaration on the Political and 
Socio-Economic situation in Africa and the Fundamental Changes Taking 
Place in the World which we adopted during the 26
th
 Session of our 
Assembly, in Addis Ababa, in July 1990, we renew our determination to 
work in concert in the search for speedy and peaceful resolution to all the 
conflicts in Africa.  
 
11. In June last year at the Twenty-eighth meeting of our Assembly in Dakar - 
Senegal, we decided in principle to establish within the OAU, and in 
keeping with the principles and objectives of the Charter of the 
Organization, a Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and 
Resolution. We took that decision against the background of the history of 
many prolonged and destructive conflicts in our continent and of our 
limited success at finding lasting solutions to them, notwithstanding the 
many efforts we and our predecessors expended. In so doing, we were also 
guided by our determination to ensure that Africa through the 
Organization of African Unity plays a central role in bringing about peace 
and stability in the Continent.  
 
12. We saw in the establishment of such a mechanism the opportunity to bring 
to the processes of dealing with conflicts in our continent a new institutional 
dynamism, enabling speedy action to prevent or manage and ultimately 
resolve conflicts when and where they occur.  
 
13. Now, having considered the report on the Mechanism prepared by the 
Secretary General pursuant to our decision on the principle of its creation,  
we hereby establish, within the OAU, a Mechanism for preventing, managing 
 
and resolving conflicts in Africa. 
 
14. The Mechanism will be guided by the objectives and principles of the OAU 
Charter; in particular, the sovereign equality of Member States, non-
interference in the internal affairs of States, the respect of the sovereignty 
and territorial integrity of Member States, their inalienable right to 
independent existence, the peaceful settlement of disputes as well as the 
inviolability of borders inherited from colonialism. It will also function on 
the basis of the consent and the co-operation of the parties to a conflict.  
 
15. The Mechanism will have as a primary objective, the anticipation and 
prevention of conflicts. In circumstances where conflicts have occurred, it 
will be its responsibility to undertake peace-making and peace-building 
functions in order to facilitate the resolution of these conflicts. In this 
respect, civilian and military missions of observation and monitoring of 
limited scope and duration may be mounted and deployed. In setting these 
objectives, we are fully convinced that prompt and decisive action in these 
spheres will, in the first instance, prevent the emergence of conflicts, and 
where they do inevitably occur, stop them from degenerating into intense or 
generalised conflicts. Emphasis on anticipatory and preventive measures, 
and concerted action in peace-making and peace-building will obviate the 
need to resort to the complex and resource-demanding peacekeeping 
operations, which our countries will find difficult to finance.  
 
16. However, in the event that conflicts degenerate to the extent of requiring 
collective international intervention and policing, the assistance or where 
appropriate the services of the United Nations will be sought under the 
general terms of its Charter. In this instance, our respective countries will 
examine ways and modalities through which they can make practical 
contribution to such a United Nations undertaking and participate 
effectively in the peacekeeping operations in Africa.  
 
17. The  Mechanism  will  be  built  around  a  Central  Organ  with  the  Secretary  
General and the Secretariat as its operational arm. 
 
18. The Central Organ of the Mechanism shall be composed of the States 
members of the Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government 
elected annually, bearing in mind the principles of equitable regional 
representation and rotation. In order to ensure continuity, the States of the 
outgoing Chairman and (where known) the incoming Chairman shall also 
be members of the Central Organ. In between Ordinary Sessions of the 
Assembly, it will assume overall direction and co-ordinate the activities of 
the Mechanism.  
 
19. The Central Organ shall function at the level of Heads of State as well as 
that of Ministers and Ambassadors accredited to the OAU or duly 
authorised representatives. It may, where necessary, seek the participation 
of other OAU Member States in its deliberations particularly, the 
neighbouring countries. It may also seek, from within the Continent, such 
military, legal and other forms of expertise as it may require in the 
performance of its functions.  
 
20. The proceedings of the Central Organ shall be governed by the pertinent 
Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. 
The Central Organ shall be convened by the Chairman or at the request of 
the Secretary General or any Member State. It will meet at least once a 
year at the level of Heads of State and Government; twice a year at the 
ministerial level; and once a month at Ambassadorial and duly authorised 
representatives’ level. The quorum of the Central Organ shall be two thirds 
of its members. In deciding on its recommendations and without prejudice 
to the decision-making methods provided for in the Rules of Procedure of 
the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, it shall generally be 
guided by the principle of consensus. The Central Organ shall report on its 
activities to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government.  
 
21. The venue of its meetings shall ordinarily be at the Headquarters of the 
Organization. Meetings may also be held elsewhere if so decided through  
consultations  among  its  members.    The  provisional  agenda  of  the  Central 
 
Organ  shall  be  prepared  by  the  Secretary  General  in  consultation  with  the 
 
Chairman. 
 
22. The Secretary General shall, under the authority of the Central Organ and 
in consultation with the parties involved in the conflict, deploy efforts and 
take all appropriate initiatives to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts. To 
this end, the Secretary General shall rely upon the human and material 
resources available at the General Secretariat. Accordingly, we direct the 
Council of Ministers, in consultation with the Secretary General, to 
examine ways and means in which the capacity within the General 
Secretariat can be built and brought to a level commensurate with the 
magnitude of the tasks at hand and the responsibilities expected of the 
organization. In his efforts, the Secretary General may also resort to 
eminent African personalities in consultation with the Authorities of their 
countries of origin. Where necessary, he may make use of other relevant 
expertise, send special envoys or special representatives as well as despatch 
fact-finding missions to conflict areas.  
 
23. A special Fund governed by the relevant OAU Financial Rules and Regulations 
shall be established for the purpose of providing financial resources to support 
exclusively the OAU operational activities relating to conflict management and 
resolution. It will be made up of financial appropriations from the regular 
budget of the OAU, voluntary contributions from Member States as well as 
from other sources within Africa. The Secretary General may, with the consent 
of the Central Organ, and in conformity with the principles and objectives of 
the OAU Charter, also accept voluntary contributions from sources outside 
Africa. Disbursement from the Special Fund shall be subject to the approval of 
the Central Organ.  
 
24. Within the context of the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management 
and Resolution, the OAU shall closely co-ordinate its activities with the 
African regional and sub-regional organizations and shall co-operate as  
appropriate  with  the  neighbouring  countries  with  respect  to  conflicts  which 
 
may arise in the different sub-regions of the Continent. 
 
25. The OAU shall also co-operate and work closely with the United Nations 
not only with regard to issues relating to peace-making but, and especially, 
also those relating to peace-keeping. Where necessary, recourse will be had 
to the United Nations to provide the necessary financial, logistical and 
military support for the OAU’s activities in Conflict Prevention, 
Management and Resolution in Africa in keeping with the provisions of 
Chapter VIII of the UN Charter on the role of regional organizations, in the 
maintenance of international peace and security. In the like manner, the 
Secretary General of the OAU shall maintain close co-operation with other 
international organizations.  
 
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