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African Solutions for African Problems

Their country. Their people. Their culture.

Now is the time for African leaders to take stock of their existing relationships and examine
whether they are helping the AU achieve its Agenda 2063 vision, a 50-year strategic plan with

goals closely linked to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 that were adopted in
2015.”
"It's Africa's Turn to Leave the European Union”. 436
ForeignPolicy (February 2020)
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Africa: Leveraging the African Union's Role in the Time of COVID-19
“ Against this backdrop, will the African Union (AU) assume a style that will portray its

management of this disease as not only crucial to how Africans view it, but how the institution
reaffirms its authority at the time when achieving a unifying regional voice amidst varying

interests, actions, nationalist and protectionist responses remains a challenge? In addition, the
coronavirus pandemic puts more emphasis on the need for a holistic Pan-African response that
will not just react to the immediate pandemic, but manage its attendant impacts through

commitments to jointly shared instruments, robust economic packages and meaningful
investments in public healthcare, education, and science and technology for the advancement

and betterment of its citizens.”
"Africa: Leveraging the African Union's Role in the Time of COVID-19." 437
Iwara, Maryanne.
AllAfrica (May 2020)

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" The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are regional groupings of African states. The
RECs have developed individually and have differing roles and structures. Generally, the purpose

of the RECs is to facilitate regional economic integration between members of the individual
regions and through the wider African Economic Community (AEC), which was established
under the Abuja Treaty (1991).

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The AU recognises eight RECs, the:

Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)
(Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
(Burundi, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt,, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Seychelles, Uganda,
Zambia and Zimbabwe)