[AU-Monitor] Accra Declaration Concludes Grand Debate

[Hakima Abbas]

Accra Declaration Concludes Grand Debate

The Accra Declaration adopted by the Heads of States at the  
conclusion of the African Union Summit.  The Declaration reflects  
some of the demands of civil society, particularly in regards to “the  
importance of involving the African peoples in order to ensure that  
the African Union is a Union of peoples and not just a “Union of  
states and governments”, as well as the African Diaspora in the  
processes of economic and political integration of our continent” and  
the need for “freer movement of persons, goods, services and capital”  
as were elaborated in the final CSO Communique on the Grand Debate.


Repatriation in the Context of the Grand Debate

A statement from the Rastafari People at the African Union Grand  
Debate was issued on July 2, 2007.  It states: “The World Conference  
Against Racism declared the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a crime  
against humanity. This year, Britain and America have celebrated the  
200th Anniversary of the end of that wickedness. The Republic of  
Ghana, for its part, has also seen fit to do something to atone for  
this crime against humanity and the complicity of some chiefs in the  
deportation of their own people into what became the MAAFA - an  
African Holocaust.

If it is morally and spiritually correct to talk about the wrongness  
of forcibly transporting African people from Africa to the Americas,  
then it is absolutely correct at this time to talk about the  
rightness of transporting African people from the land of their  
captivity to their ancestral homeland which is this continent known  
today as Africa.

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AU Adopts Accra Declaration to Plan Integration

BuaNews (Tshwane) - Lavinia Mahlangu

Timelines and the method for Africa’s integration are to be set out  
according to the Accra Declaration, adopted late on Tuesday night by  
the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union Heads of Summit.

“We emerged from the Grand Debate with a common vision,” AU Chair  
John Kuofor and President of Ghana said on Tuesday, minutes before  
midnight.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/270/


Kadhafi Praises Steps Taken Toward Federal African Govt

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi says “through the  
Accra Declaration [on the formation of a federal government], Africa  
has expressed its desire to move forward”.

Kadhafi made the observation in a statement issued Tuesday night in  
Accra at the end of the African Union (AU) ninth heads of state and  
government summit.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/269/


L’Intégration des Femmes dans le Gouvernement de l’Union

Le réseau des femmes de la société civile africaine a instamment  
appelé l’Assemblée Générale des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement dont  
le Sommet est prévu du 1er au 3 juillet a Accra, a a l’occasion de sa  
10ème Réunion Consultative sur l’intégration du genre dans l’Union  
Africaine, en marge du Sommet de l’UA tenue, à Accra, au Ghana, dans  
le cadre de la Campagne “Le Genre : Mon agenda” lancée en juin 2006 a  
Banjul.

La suite:
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/274/


Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union Government

As part of the ongoing ‘Gender is My Agenda Campaign,’ aiming to  
mainstream gender in the African Union (AU), the women’s civil  
society networks have organized the 10th AU Pre-Summit Consultative  
meeting which was held in Accra, Ghana, on the 23rd and 24th June.  
This meeting precedes the 9th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the  
African Union and will be the 10th in a series of consultative  
meetings of civil society networks concerned with gender issues and  
the promotion of women’s human rights in Africa.

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http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/273/


And Gaddafi Shifted

Asare Otchere-Darko , 04/07/2007 - The Statesman

It was billed as a grand debate between the Instantists (Radicals)  
and the Gradualists over what kind of Union Government Africa must  
have. The radicals, led by Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi of Libya and  
Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, amplified the rhetoric of Union Government  
now!

The Gradualists, led by Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and, though with  
the subtlety expected from the chair, Ghana’s John Agyekum Kufuor,  
were calling for a gradual approach but within the shortest  
practicable time.

In the end, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia articulated the very point of  
view of the Gradualists, only giving it a new name: Practicalist.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/268/


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