This month’s high-level engagement between AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has paved the way for Biden’s US-Africa summit later this year. Jessye Lapenn, US ambassador to the AU in Addis Ababa, told Daily Maverick that Faki had an intense and ‘rich’ engagement with the US leadership in Washington.
The African Union and the United States have rebooted their relations after a relative pause of two years induced by the Covid pandemic — and despite the war in Ukraine. The two sides launched intensified programmes of cooperation in health, climate, economic development and peace and security at a high-level meeting in Washington this month.
“So it was really rich. And US business hosted a dinner for him,” where the business leaders stressed the need for greater peace and security to enable trade and economic development, said Lapenn.Health was at the core of the high-level AU-US engagement. The US has been deeply involved in the Africa CDC since its launch in January 2017 and its “extraordinary growth in capacity” since then, as Lapenn put it.
“For southern Africa, the RCC is in Lusaka. And so over the last year, we have also done some work to get the health teams at all our embassies in the region to connect into the RCC in Zambia. “ Maybe it has to be expanded and maybe deepened. But I believe that the old, present, and future relations with the United States and Africa demand that we go beyond Agoa.
Russia to “imperatively respect international law, the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Ukraine”.We talked a lot about our view of Russia’s war of choice, Putin’s very violent aggression against the Ukrainians. And really the principles behind the US view, which are sovereignty, territorial integrity, commitment to peaceful resolution of conflict. All of which are perfectly coinciding with the AU Charter.
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