Africa and the Rest of the World

African leaders at the United Nations General Assembly unanimously called for Africa's inclusion in the UN Security Council, citing the continent's exclusion as a key issue. The African Union's 2005 Ezulwini Consensus formally demands two permanent seats with veto powers and five additional non-permanent seats for Africa. The leaders also discussed common challenges such as debt, insecurity, climate injustice, and unfair trade. The article questions why these repeated appeals have yielded little progress since the UN's founding in 1945.

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