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This paper examines the UN concept of 'responsibility to protect' (R2P) and the challenges related to its implementation on the African continent. The author examines how the African Union (AU) incorporated the right to intervene in a member state through article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000). He concludes that the AU should reduce the need for costly intervention pursuant to R2P and article 4(h) and focus more on dealing with the causes of crisis, rather than its symptoms.