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Accra Hosts African Union Summit
By Gideon Sackitey, Accra
Accra, June 30, Ghanadot - About 40 African head of states
are scheduled to attend this weekend’s African Union Summit
to discuss plans for a United States of Africa designed to
break down the colonial borders and make people of Africa
and African descent not only one people, but also from a
single country.
They include Presidents Abdelaziz Boutaflika of Algeria,
Eduardo Dos SantosAngola, Thomas Boni of Benin, Cape Verde’s
Pedro Pires and Francoise Bozize of te Central African
Republic. The rest are Cote d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo,
Ismaail Guella of Djibouti, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and
Obiang Nbasango of Equatorial Guinea.
Newly sworn in Umary Musa Yar’dua of Nigeria, Mrs Johnson
Sirleaf of Liberia, Amadou Toure of Mali, Paul Kagame of
Rwanda, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and King Mswati of
Swaziland.\ and Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania would be present.
The leaders, who started arriving in Accra on Friday are set
to address the agenda of a “united Africa" proposed by Dr
Kwame Nkrumah some forty plus years ago. The idea has been
welcomed by many several years ago, but the willingness to
carry it out has not been forthcoming, making the idea of a
borderless continent-wide entity a mere slogan.
A 2006 African Union (AU) report advocates achieving a
United States of Africa by 2015 with the AU transforming
into a government.
A number of current crop of leaders are advocating for a
United States of Africa now with Libya’s Muammar Ghaddafi,
leading the way for an immediate pan-African government.
A number of seminars, workshops and civil society incursions
prior to July 1st Summit indicate that there is a strong
need for a United African government.
Mr Alpha Oumar Konare, the departing chair of the African
Union Commission is disturbed about the situation saying
that said numerous documents had been adopted over the
several decades calling for a pan-African body, which had
failed.
Several people have expressed worry about the situation in
Darfur, Zimbabwe and other African states where human
rights, good governance and freedom of speech are a far cry
from home.
Ghanaian police authorities have banned all protests during
the Summit, having spread out about 2,000 policemen across
the capital. capital.
Planned protests include one calling for an end to the
violence in Darfur and a second by Zimbabwean activists
decrying Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
On the sidelines of the summit, South African President
Thabo Mbeki is expected to present a report on the progress
of his attempt to mediate a solution in Zimbabwe.
Gideon Sackitey, Accra, June 30, Ghanadot
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GOVT says its not
apathetic
Ghanadot.com - In 1995, a group of politicians
embarked on a demonstration to protest against
the introduction of the Value Added Tax in
Ghana. The Association of Committee for the
Defence of the Revolution, believed to be
sponsored by the then National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government, countered the
demonstration and in the process four lives were
lost. . .......More
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CHAMBAS
IS
ECOWAS
PRESIDENT
Ghanadot.com
;
Dr.
Mohammed
Ibn
Chambas
of
Ghana
was
on
Saturday
installed
the
First
President
of
The
ECOWAS
Commission
at
its
inauguration
in
Ouagadougou,
Burkina-Faso.
He
is
to
be
assisted
by
two
Vice
Presidents
and
seven
commissioners
yet
to
be
appointed.
Biography
of
Dr
Chambas:......More
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“Hotel
Kufuor" opens next month?
Ghanadot - After months of
controversy concerning sources of funding and alleged misuse
of state funds, information filtering into Ghanadot.com
offices in Accra indicates that the so-called “Kufuor Hotel”
is set to open in February 2007.....More |
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Night
cleaning of Accra begins
GNA - The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and
Environment, in collaboration with the National Youth Employment
Programme (NYEP) on Monday began an exercise for daily night
cleaning of the Central Business District of Accra. ....More |
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