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AU calls for further joint efforts to fight terrorism

Xinhua, December 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

African nations have to further coordinate their counterterrorism effort, which remains one of the main challenges facing the continent, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Smail Chergui, said on Wednesday.

"Terrorism and violent extremism remain major sources of concern to the African Union, and all African nations have to combine their efforts to countering these phenomena, and eradicate the factors favoring their spread," Chergui said in his remarks at the opening of the 9th annual meeting of the Focal Points of the African Center for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT).

He said that the African Commission and ACSRT continue supporting the member states in their efforts meant to prevent the terrorist groups from recruiting new elements and obtaining funds to execute their attacks.

The security situation in the continent is getting worse amid the emergence of terror threats, driven by armed groups affiliated to "Daesh," Chergui said, adding that countering terrorism remain the main challenge to Africa.

The 9th meeting of the Focal Points of the African Center for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) opened Wednesday in Algiers.

The focal points of ACSRT provide a mechanism dedicated to the coordination of individual and collective efforts among African countries to face the terrorist threat. Endit