All appears set for President Bola Tinubu to depart Abuja for Accra, Ghana, to participate in the Sixth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union (AU).
The meeting will also deliberate on the Regional Economic
Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member
States.
Tinubu in his capacity as the Chairman of ECOWAS Authority
of Heads of State and Government, will address the meeting on the status of
regional integration across various areas in Africa, highlighting the
achievements and challenges encountered in West Africa since the last meeting
in Nairobi, Kenya, in July 2023.
The President and Chairman of ECOWAS will equally present
the ‘2024 Report on the State of the Community’, focusing on peace, regional
security, governance, economic integration, humanitarian and social
development, energy, mines and agriculture.
The event is being convened under the AU theme of the year
2024: ‘Educate and Skill Africa for the 21st Century.’
The Mid-Year Coordination Meeting was conceptualized in 2017
as the principal forum for the AU and the RECs to align their work and
coordinate the implementation of the continental integration agenda, replacing
the June/July summits.
In July 2023, President Tinubu, who was then elected as the
Chairman of ECOWAS, delivered his maiden speech at the AU Fifth Mid-Year
Coordination Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, where he affirmed Africa’s strength and
the need for unity.
In Accra, the items on the agenda will include evaluating
the AU’s early warning and conflict prevention mechanisms and promoting
cooperation among regional economic communities to accelerate integration.
A declaration will be adopted at the end of the meeting.
“The President, who will be accompanied by senior government
officials, will return to the country at the conclusion of the meeting,” a
statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media &
Publicity added on Friday.
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