Africa has reiterated its demand for two permanent seats with full rights, including veto power, and five non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, according to the “Tripoli Document 2026” adopted by the African Union’s Committee of Ten (C-10) at its 14th ministerial meeting in Libya.

The document reaffirms the principles of the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration, adopted in 2005 and considered the basis of the African position. The African Union also claims the right to select African candidates for those seats, seeking to ensure that the continent’s representation responds to its own criteria and priorities.

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The C-10 is made up of Libya, Algeria, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. Sierra Leone has coordinated its work since the committee’s creation in 2005.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

When the UN was founded, most of Africa was still under colonial rule. Today, Africa still has no permanent representation on the Council.

A 21st-century Security Council without permanent African seats is unjust and indefensible.

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— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 22, 2026

At a joint press conference, the official in charge of managing Libya’s Foreign Ministry affairs, Taher Al-Baour, and Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister and C-10 coordinator, Timothy Musa Kabba, defended continued diplomatic efforts to increase Africa’s presence in international institutions. Both said the reform must correct imbalances in geographic representation and give the continent greater weight in decisions on international security and stability.

The Security Council has 15 members: five permanent with veto power and 10 non-permanent. Africa has no permanent representation and occupies three rotating seats in 2026 through Somalia, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For African countries, this structure does not reflect the world’s political and demographic transformations or the continent’s participation in the Council’s work.

The meeting concluded on Sunday with the ratification of the African common position, according to Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ministers and representatives of the 10 committee countries attended, along with the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform.

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