The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, called on Sunday for an approach based on the fight against extremist groups, prevention and de-radicalization efforts to win the battle against terrorism and violent extremism across the country.
In his capacity as AU coordinator on the prevention and fight against terrorism and violent extremism in Africa, President Tebboune, in his report, presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community to the foreigner, Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, during the AU summit in Addis Ababa, affirmed that “the battle against terrorism and violent extremism could not be won in the absence of a comprehensive approach based on deployment on a double front, namely the fight against extremist groups, but also and above all in terms of prevention and de-radicalization efforts”.
He recalled, on this occasion, that “Algeria has always pleaded for a global and integrated approach in the strategies to be implemented, to better understand and combat terrorism and crime at the national and international level”.
“My country has proposed during the year 2021 a new African approach, likely to frame and stimulate the prevention and fight against this scourge, through a letter addressed to the Chairman-in-Office of the AU, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo”, President Tebboune further recalled.
This new African approach proposed by Algeria consists, he explained, of “injecting new life into the collective effort to prevent and fight against terrorism and violent extremism and taking into account the situation of instability in the Sahelo-Saharan region and the aggravation of the terrorist threat and other related threats in several regions of the continent”.
Thus, this new vision, specified by the Head of State, is “based on a series of proposals aimed at strengthening the collective efforts of the African States and the mechanisms of the African Union in the fight against terrorism”.
It also aims to “revitalize the institutions and strengthen the mechanisms of the African Union to fight against this cross-border and dangerous phenomenon, by integrating new concepts, means and resources of a normative and operational nature in order to improve African action”, said President Tebboune.
