Members of the UN Security Council during a meeting on non-proliferation of North Korea at United Nations on April 28, 2017 in New York City. PHOTO | EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ | AFP
In recent times, the UN Security Council has voted in favour of local solutions to African problems as was seen in the restraint to send a peacekeeping force to Anglophone Cameroon and enforce an arms embargo violation sanctions in Libya earlier this year.
The decision on Cameroon now appears inspired, with President Paul Biya having called for a national dialogue on Anglophone Cameroon for September 30, which United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed.