I'm going to keep talking if you ask me questions. That's my problem. That's what I get paid for. I apologize.
The African Union is very compromised. The problem is that the leaderships of the African Union and IGAD have taken sides. That's the perception, at least. Long story short—the Kenyan government is seen to be taking sides with the Rapid Support Forces. At an inopportune time, Museveni hosted the head of the Rapid Support Forces. What they did is something that peacemakers cannot do in the context of war, I think, and that is to show bias. That really undermined the negotiations. Within the African Union, they are a collection of countries. They have represented their biases and that has undermined the kind of coordinated and coherent coalition you need to negotiate a peace.
What does that mean? That means that.... I don't want to keep returning to Canada. What that usually means is that a third party has to come in there, whether it is in Europe or elsewhere, or in Canada, in order to actually reformulate that process and give more legitimacy, even to the IGAD and the African Union. An example, of course, in this instance, would be that the IGAD and the African Union now affirm their support for the Quad and its framework, because their framework was, of course, compromised.
That outside third party angle is why we are asking Canada to be part of this process, despite the criticism and tensions. This is about Africa and a very different conflict—