A/RES/73/150 Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa 2. Calls upon African States that have not yet signed or ratified the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa to consider doing so as early as possible in order to ensure its wider implementation; 3. Encourages African States, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the international community to mark the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa and the tenth anniversary of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention); 4. Notes the need for African States, with the support and collaboration of the international community, to resolutely address the root causes of all forms of forced displacement in Africa and to foster peace, stability and prosperity throughout the African continent so as to forestall flows of refugees; 5. Welcomes the central role played by the Heads of State and Government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development towards the successful negotiations in Khartoum and the eventual signing of the final Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan between the Government and the opposition movements during the thirty-third extraordinary summit, held in Addis Ababa on 12 September 2018, and encourages the parties to fully implement this agreement in order to achieve a sustainable and lasting peace and reduce the flow of refugees in Africa; 6. Commends the continued efforts and commitment by the regional Governments towards resolving conflicts in the region, including the ongoing mediation by the Sudan between the parties to the conflict in the Central African Republic under the umbrella of the African Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic; 7. Welcomes the outcome of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum on stabilization and recovery in the Lake Chad region, held in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in May 2018, aimed at integrating durable local solutions to the challenges in the Lake Chad region, and the High-level Conference on the Lake Chad Region, co-hosted by Germany, Nigeria, Norway and the United Nations in Berlin in September 2018, and calls upon affected countries, donors and partners to fulfil their pledges aimed at facilitating crisis prevention, rehabilitation, recovery, resilience and peace building, as well as enhancing the humanitarian development nexus in the north -east of Nigeria and the Lake Chad region; 8. Notes with great concern that, despite all the efforts made so far by the United Nations, the African Union and others, the situation of refugees and displaced persons in Africa remains precarious and the number of refugees and internally displaced persons has dramatically increased, and calls upon States and other parties to armed conflict to observe scrupulously the letter and spir it of, and respect and ensure respect for, international humanitarian law, bearing in mind that armed conflict is one of the principal causes of forced displacement in Africa; 9. Welcomes decisions EX.CL/Dec.854 (XXVI), EX.CL/Dec.877 (XXVII) and EX.CL/899 (XXVIII) and EX.CL/Dec.968 (XXXI) adopted by the Executive Council of the African Union at its twenty-sixth ordinary session, held in Addis Ababa from 23 to 27 January 2015, its twenty-seventh ordinary session, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 7 to 12 June 2015, its twenty-eighth ordinary session, held in Addis Ababa from 23 to 28 January 2016 and its thirty-first ordinary session, held in Addis Ababa from 27 June to 1 July 2017, on the humanitarian 4/9 18-22203