UN General Assembly
2014

again be plunged into the violence that afflicted it for so many long years. Finally, it also needs that support so that the positive developments seen in the Central African Republic in recent weeks with the cessation of hostilities agreement, signed in Brazzaville on 23 July, and the transfer of authority, on 15 September, from the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic can be strengthened to allow the Central African people to emerge from the crisis that has lasted too long. Africa needs the ongoing support of the international community to curb maritime piracy, which increasingly threatens the Gulf of Guinea, and to combat terrorism, which extends from the Sahel to the south of the continent, with the involvement of many local networks. That also applies to Boko Haram, which rages in Nigeria and seeks to spread its activities towards Cameroon, and perhaps soon to other countries if nothing is done to prevent it. The same goes for