{
  "id": 9516381,
  "title": "UNGA81: Durable global peace impossible without African leadership – Sierra Leone president",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/unga81-durable-global-peace-impossible-without-african-leadership",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T07:47:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/unga81-durable-global-peace-impossible-without-african-leadership-sierra-leone-president/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio asserted that achieving a stable global peace is unfeasible without African leadership at the United Nations Security Council. At the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, the Sierra Leone president lamented the lack of African representation on the Council, highlighting that the body still mirrors \"the world of 1945.\" Bio emphasized that Africa, home to over 1.6 billion people, remains without a permanent seat and is seeking its rightful place in the decision-making process. He stressed that without African leadership, it would be impossible to build a durable global solution on issues like peace, climate, food, energy, or technology. The President, as the Coordinator of the African Union Committee of Ten, vowed to continue advocating for two permanent and five non-permanent seats for African nations on the Council. He acknowledged the credibility challenges faced by the process due to years of intergovernmental negotiations without reform. Bio pledged that before the current session ends, Member States should reach a consensus on a unified model, as committed to in the \"Pact for the Future.\" He spoke with the authority of a country that has served as a voice of reason and a bridge across divisions during its Council term in 2024 and 2025. Bio emphasized that meaningful representation should lead to changes in decisions and improvements in people's lives. He noted that international financial institutions share a similar imbalance in representation as the Security Council. For Sierra Leone, this historical imbalance is not abstract or distant but continues to affect wealth, power, and opportunity disparities worldwide. The country will advance this cause not as a plea for charity but as a call for acknowledgement, a formal apology, the return of cultural heritage, fair redress, and guarantees of non-repetition.",
  "summary": "Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio says durable global peace will not be possible without African leadership, noting that the Security Council still reflects “the world of 1945′. Bio, in his statement to world leaders at the General Debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York lamented […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}