The Africa-EU partnership to the test of the Libyan crisis

The impact of the Libyan crisis in the sub-Sahelian subregion clearly recalls the interdependencies that link, because of their contiguity or connectivity, the major African geopolitical areas. The transformation of Libya into a center of instability and regional destabilization is due to a large extent to differences of approaches, or even a conflict between political agendas of local actors, regional organizations and their international partners. The marginalization of the African Union‘s (AU) efforts for a negotiated solution to the Libyan crisis may appear a posteriori as one of the factors exacerbating the crisis. Recognition of the role of regional organizations in preventing and resolving conflicts is yet part of recent trends towards strategic partnerships that tend to a renewal of global governance.