Le Conseil de Paix et de Sécurité de l’Union Africaine et le Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU: subsidiarité, concurrence ou complémentarité d’actions en Afrique?

Abstract

Since 1960s in case of serious army conflicts/conflict, Africa has always benefitted from the deployment of the UN peacekeeping missions decided by the Security Council of United Nations (UN). In times of the UOA and especially today, some of these missions have involved African Union (AU) forces as joint missions, whereas other have been under AU’s own initiative. It is in trying to understand the origin of these actions that this study investigates the nature of the collaboration between the SC of the UN and the PSC of the UN in order to silence weapons in Africa. First of all, it states a subsidiarity of actions in the resolution of conflicts between these two bodies that has been observed in accordance with the UN Charter, making the PSC of the AU a second level actor in relation to SC. It then establishes the existence of a competition between the AU PSC and the UN SC in certain conflicts, due to the refusal on the part of certain states of the presence of UN forces, a symptom of foreign occupation, in their territories. It attests to the fact that the lack of operational means by/on the part of the AU has also made the UN become very febrile peace missions in Africa/has also made some peace missions become more febrile, so that the UN has become involved in complimentary actions. This accounts for joint missions with hybrid-UN-AU forces.