This is what prompted the international community to support the establishment of a pan-African peacekeeping force, for example.

* preventing conflicts: early application in Africa of the Ottawa Treaty banning land mines, mutual scrutiny of military budgets and imposition of sanctions in cases where the size of these budgets suggests an aggressive attitude towards neighbours, the incorporation into the Convention of a code of conduct on arms trading, the setting up of four regional "observatories" (one for each OEU region except North Africa) for monitoring ethnic, linguistic or religious tensions or discrimination, the setting up of a permanent regionalised mediation system based on this monitoring, the setting up of an inter-African intervention force with a permanent hi ...[+++]gh command which can act only at the request of the OAU.

Under the terms of a 1997 peace accord rebels and forces loyal to the president agreed to establish a multinational Mission Interafricaine de Surveillance de l'Application des Accords de Bangui. MISAB's job was to maintain peace and security in the capital city Bangui and to monitor the implementation of the peace agreement.

16. Support African efforts to fight terrorism through the provision of technical assistance and enhanced information sharing; and assist African countries in meeting their international counter-terrorism obligations while calling on them actively to co-operate in international counter-terrorism efforts, in particular with the UN. Enhance the EU-Africa and intra-African cooperation in the fights against organised crime, all forms of exploitative and forced labour and drugs.