Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has called on African leaders to exercise their responsibility in acting on climate change and to unite efforts to face challenges in establishing stability and peace in the continent.
President El-Sisi’s made this remark at the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development taking place in Aswan, Upper Egypt 11-12 December.

President El-Sisi admonished African leaders to work together if peculiar problems affecting Africa must be overcome. Africa leaders need to unite in combating terrorism and associated phenomena of arms and human trafficking, illegal migration and increasing organized crimes.

In the wake of climate change and its adverse effect across Africa, the Egyptian President called on fellow leaders to take more decisive action to tackle and manage it.

“We all shall act with responsibility on the negative implications of climate change which have exacerbated desertification and scarcity of water and natural resources,” El-Sisi said

African countries have made progress on achieving development and bringing stability in the region, El-sisi says, citing the adoption of 2063 African development agenda, and the initiative for a conflict-free continent by 2020 called ‘Silencing the Guns by 2020’.

Culled from english.ahram.org.eg