 Complete the following phrase:  Alongside his domestic work, he also turned his attention to events elsewhere in Africa, and in 1987 gave the keynote speech at the All Africa Conference of Churches AACC in Lomé, Togo. There, he called on churches to champion the oppressed throughout the continent, stating that it pains us to have to admit that there is less freedom and personal liberty in most of Africa now then there was during the much-maligned colonial days. At the conference, he was elected president of the AACC, while José Belo was elected its general-secretary. Calling for an African renaissance across the continent, the pair formed a partnership that would last a decade. In 1989 they visited Zaire to encourage the countrys churches to distance themselves from Sekos autocratic government. In 1994, he and Belo visited war-torn Liberia in a mission co-organised by the AACC and the Carter Center. There, they met Charles Taylor, but Tutu did not trust his promise of a ceasefire. In 1995, Mandela sent Tutu to Nigeria to meet with Nigerian military leader Sani Abacha to request the release of imprisoned politicians Moshood Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo. In July 1995, he visited Rwanda a year after the 