{"id":85518,"date":"2025-05-20T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/?p=85518"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:32:18","slug":"africas-first-security-summit-opens-with-calls-for-regional-leadership85518-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/africas-first-security-summit-opens-with-calls-for-regional-leadership85518-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s first security summit opens with calls for regional leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The first International Security Conference on Africa (ISCA) opened Monday in Rwanda\u2019s capital, Kigali, with President Paul Kagame calling the forum \u201clong overdue\u201d and urging African-led responses to the continent\u2019s security challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking at the opening ceremony, Kagame said that Africa\u2019s future \u201ccannot be outsourced\u201d and stressed the importance of the continent taking responsibility for its own peace and stability.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said African security has long been treated as a \u201cburden to be managed by others,\u201d often without adequate regional input or understanding of local context.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis approach has failed to deliver both for Africa and for the world,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2018Change narrative\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kagame described the forum as a \u201cdeliberate effort to change both the narrative and the substance\u201d of Africa\u2019s role in global security discussions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He urged African states to act as credible and capable partners in addressing security issues, warning that neglecting this responsibility \u201callows others to step in, leading to a loss of credibility and control.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kagame called for stronger regional institutions, including the African Union and its Peace and Security Council, to lead on managing the continent\u2019s shared security priorities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe key to overcoming security challenges lies in our ability to produce our own solutions,\u201d he said, adding the conference should align political will with technical expertise and national interests with continental priorities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Source: TRT GLOBAL<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first International Security Conference on Africa (ISCA) opened Monday in Rwanda\u2019s capital, Kigali, with President Paul Kagame calling the forum \u201clong overdue\u201d and urging African-led responses to the continent\u2019s security challenges. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Kagame said that Africa\u2019s future \u201ccannot be outsourced\u201d and stressed the importance of the continent taking responsibility for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":85519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85520,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85518\/revisions\/85520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}