Today, Monday, 25th May 2020 is African Union day on the theme: Silencing the guns: creating conducive conditions for Africa’s development to achieve the goal of a conflict-free Africa.
This year’s celebrations will include a special virtual broadcast featuring speeches by the President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of the African Union (AU), President Cyril Ramaphosa; the AU Commission Chair His Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat; the President of the Pan African Women Association, Ms. Eunice Ipinge, and the AU Youth Envoy, Ms. Aya Chebbi.
The broadcast also brings one of the champions of Africa’s Liberation, the only remaining founding fathers of the OAU, H.E Dr. Kenneth Kaunda of the Republic of Zambia. KK as he is known walked and worked side by side with other gallant giants of Africa’s liberation in establishing the organization that strived to free the whole continent from the shackles of colonialism. He served as Zambia’s first president and as the chairman of the OAU from 1970 to 1973.
This event will be broadcast at 13h00 (Central African Time) tomorrow, Monday, 25 May 2020, on all major broadcasters and digital media platforms.
Africa Day commemorates the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (now known as the African Union) on this day, 25 May, in 1963.
It aims to celebrate African unity and the AU day will present an avenue to celebrate some landmark achievements of the Union on various issues such as peace and security, continental integration, women and youth empowerment, eradication of diseases, and others.
It is a statutory public holiday in several countries such as The Gambia, Mali, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
