Young African Leaders forum celebrates African independence
President Obama’s three-day Young African Leaders forum officially kicks off today. The effort aims to facilitate good partnerships with Africa and reinforce Obama’s notion that ‘the future of Africa is up to Africans themselves.’
The forum comes at an important time. This year, 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will celebrate 50 years of independence.
In order to honor this significant achievement, nearly 115 young leaders from more than 40 African countries have converged in Washington to share and discuss ways to empower the youth demographic, practice good governance and create economic opportunities.
According to AFP, these young leaders will have a chance to participate in a town hall meeting led by the president, meet with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and talk to other government officials and civil society leaders.
It’s events like these that can help Africans take responsibility for their governments and help promote and support accountability, transparency and stability. Read more about the forum and listen to keynote speeches at the U.S. Department of State website — and make sure to watch Obama’s live town hall discussion at 2 PM on the White House website.
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August 3, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Hello,
This is a short note to congratulate President Obama and his entire organizing team of the 50 years of the African independences. It is amazing seing how the US model thinks in terms of bringing together the young leaders while the French ones is still the same old model – having only African presidents and other CE of Governments with the aim of perpetuating the ald model of influence.
This being said, we cannot know or anticipate how the debates will be translated into action once the participants are back home, in Africa. The other interesting issue should be how the tops of the african governments have been involved in selecting the participants. I do hope that it’s not those connected to the power or influencial families who have been invited.
Finally, once the list of participants is available, we would like to have access to and react based on relevant information.
Many thanks and all the best for this initiative.
Thank you, Mr. President Obama.
Mathias Bizimana
August 6, 2010 at 9:38 am
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Johnson, 29, led the NFL in receiving yards the matrix two seasons and had five years and $35 million unconsumed on his existing contract.
The Relate reported the extension to be quality $38.5 million, including $13 million guaranteed. On commonplace, Johnson inclination nowadays order $10.5 million per year over the next seven seasons, not including performance incentives.
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He has caught 587 passes for the sake of 7,948 yards as a remainder the course of his calling, proper two of the numerous confederate records he owns.
January 28, 2011 at 4:19 pm
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