Africa: Leaders discuss Union government

  1. Posted on Thursday 22 May 2008 - 10:30
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    Fredrick Mugira, AfricaNews reporter in Mbarara, Uganda
    A meeting of 12 African heads of states has got underway in Tanzania for the leaders to discuss matters concerning the political and economic integration on the continent. The Arusha summit is the first meeting discussing the African Union government.
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    It is expected to consider the Report from the African Union Executive Council of Ministers following their deliberations in Arusha earlier in the month, together with the Report of the Ministerial Committee of Ten on the Union Government.

    The Ministerial Committee of Ten was mandated by the Assembly at its Summit in Accra, Ghana in July 2007 to consider issues pertaining to the Union Government.

    Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda are part of leaders in the meeting. Others in Arusha are from Gabon, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Libya, Senegal and host Tanzania.

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  1. Posted on Friday 23 May 2008 21:18
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    There is no news that responsibly exhilarates my heart, mind and soul as well as body as when African leaders come together to discuss the progress of the African Union. Towards an African Union Government is the most serious step our leaders must seriously deliberate since the founding of the Organization for African Unity and the idea of an African Union. They need to see beyond themselves and bring in the future of the continent and her peoples as one nation as the most important struggle they must accomplish. It is their destiny. To evade this most auspicious destiny is to commit suicide and in a case like that neither the present nor the future will ever forgive them.

    The great leaders of Africa and mainly those now meeting in Tanzania to discuss the African Union Government are building the continent's greatest monumental history for which they will always be remembered by Africa, Africans and the whole world. I have not adequate words to express the magnitude and significance of the value of their time discussing a matter greater than them all together. Africa can be proud of you all and I salute and congratulate you all on your deliberations. Reinforce yourselves and be ready to encounter and surmount all obstacles to the African Union Government. Work not for your individual selves but for the future of the African Race and the human race. By African race my meaning is African peoples wherever they may be anywhere around the world.