This chapter offers the African perspective on the Responsibility to Protect. It examines how the African Union (AU) understands its responsibility to protect and considers the various provisions of the Constitutive Act of the AU, related to the principles of non-indifference and non-interference as well as its right to intervene in its Member States, and their impact on RtoP. The chapter also discusses whether, in the contemplation of the AU’s Ezulwini Consensus and several allied instruments, there is room for regional organisations to act in the stead of the Security Council whenever a dire RtoP situation arises.

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Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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