"We're looking to the African leaders to find an African solution to an African problem," he said.
Backing "African solutions" is fine where they have the possibility of leading to durable and legitimate outcomes.
In some ways the document reflects a triumphant trend for the continent: finding African solutions to African problems.
"We're going to try to use African leaders' assistance to provide an African solution to what is really an African problem."
"You're looking at a group of people who find African solutions to African problems."
(It is one of the reasons why the world does not hear much about an "African solution" to the current problem.)
The events were "African solutions to African problems," in a phrase that became fashionable in policy circles.
They also rejected a no-fly zone and any intervention by Western powers, but supported an "African solution" of reform.
That would also help to ensure that we could put in place an African solution to an African problem.
The Patriarch stated that finding an "African solution" is significant to curb problems of the continent.