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Senegalese lawyer Patrick Kabou takes charge of African peace group

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Senegalese lawyer and lecturer-researcher Patrick Kabou was elected president of the African Collective for Peace at the organisation’s general assembly in Dakar. He said the new bureau would first seek official recognition in Senegal before launching a three-year action plan focused on research, training and mediation, according to APS.

Senegalese lawyer Patrick Kabou was elected president of the African Collective for Peace (CAP) on Saturday, at the end of the organisation’s third General Assembly in Dakar, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) reports. Also a lecturer and researcher, he succeeds to the leadership of this pan-African organisation, created in 2019 in Toulouse, France.

The CAP brings together academics and civil society actors committed to preventing, managing and transforming crises in Africa. After his election, Patrick Kabou called for general mobilisation to make the organisation a major actor in pacifying the continent, according to APS.

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