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E MOUSSA FAKI MAHAMAT CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION THIRTY SEVENTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE AFRICAN UNION Addis Ababa, 17-18 February 2024 1 Excellency Azali Assoumani, President of the Union of The Comoros and Current Chairman of the African Union, Excellencies Heads of State and Government and Heads of Delegation, Excellence President Lula da Silva. [...] The scope of its devastation of human lives and property continues to expand, to the great detriment of all the peoples of the world. [...] The Great Lakes Region is multiplying the signs of worsening of its eternal crisis fuelled by unresolved issues in the East of the Democratic Republic of The Congo. [...] The Sahel is an extreme source of concern with the vacuum that has dangerously established there since the withdrawal of the United Nations Mission, the 4 denunciation of the Algiers Agreement and the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from ECOWAS. [...] In this context, I welcome the position of the Senegalese Government to take into high consideration the decision of the Constitutional Council of the country and wish every success to the consultations planned by the Government to decide, in a consensual spirit, the best ways for the organisation of the inclusive, free and fair and transparent elections as quickly as possible.