change is coming !

change is coming !
voici que Kwame Nkrumah renait a travers Gaddafi... désolé pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas l'anglais :s

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6239656.stm

Gaddafi urges pan-African state

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi came to power in a coup in 1969
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has described the African Union as a failure and vowed to press ahead with plans for a single African government.


Speaking in Guinea's capital, Conakry, Mr Gaddafi said there was no future for individual African nation states.

He urged leaders attending next month's African Union summit in Ghana to decide to create a United States of Africa.

Mr Gaddafi has long been a leading proponent of the idea, but some observers say it is not realistic.

"At the Accra summit we are going to get straight to the point. Let those who are hesitating, get out of our way," he told tens of thousands of people at a rally in Conakry.

"For 40 years all the summits have failed," he said. "Our micro-states have no future."

Greeting

The Libyan leader went on to visit Sierra Leone where hundreds of people came out onto the streets of the capital, Freetown, to greet him, despite allegations that he supported the notorious Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels during the country's brutal civil war.

Opposition leader Charles Magai said he felt Mr Gaddafi should not have been invited.

"If I were president of Sierra Leone I would only say to him that the people of Sierra Leone do not welcome you at this point in time. He should first of all apologise to the people and then the question of reparation could be considered," Mr Magai told the BBC.

The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown says Mr Gaddafi has pumped a lot of money into Sierra Leone, especially in the last year.

Our correspondent says it is a strategy that seems to have paid off as many people seemed to agree with the red-carpet treatment he is receiving.

"He's going around promoting peace in Africa so I think he deserves a welcome," one man said as Mr Gaddafi arrived.

"I agree he supported them (the RUF) initially because he was thinking they were on a just cause and later when he saw that they have diverted from what initially they wanted to do, I think he moved away from them."

After Sierra Leone, Mr Gaddafi goes to Ivory Coast before travelling to the summit in Accra.

The idea of a single pan-African government was first promoted by Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence in 1957.

# Postato domenica 01 luglio 2007 18:32

sommet de l'UA à accra

sommet de l'UA à accra
jai fait un effort et voici en francais cette fois ci les dernieres nouvelles...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/french/news/story/2007/07/070701_au_accra_summit.shtml

Sommet de l'UA à Accra


Alpha Konaré
Le président de la Commission de l'UA, Alpha Konaré, est favorable à la création des Etats-Unis d'Afrique.
L'ordre du jour de ce 9ème sommet ordinaire de l'Union africaine comporte plusieurs points, notamment le projet de création des Etats-Unis d'Afrique.


Le dirigeant libyen, le colonel Khaddafi, qui a fait de ce vieux projet son cheval de bataille, tentera de convaincre ses pairs.

En réalité, le projet avait déjà été ébauché il y a plus de 40 ans par Kwame N'krumah, le premier président du Ghana et l'un des pères fondateurs de la défunte Organisation de l'unité africaine.

Les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement des 53 Etats membres de l'UA réunis à Accra sont divisés sur la question.

Le président de la Commission de l'Union africaine, Alpha Oumar Konaré, a apporté son soutien au numéro un libyen.

"La bataille pour les Etats-Unis d'Afrique est la seule qui vaille pour notre génération, la seule capable d'apporter des réponses aux mille problèmes des populations africaines," a déclaré Alpha Konaré.

Il a toutefois reconnu que le chemin à parcourir pour y arriver était encore long.

Alpha Konaré a également noté que la constitution de ce vaste ensemble devrait passer par "la définition des pouvoirs et des moyens d'un exécutif continental plus fort".

En revanche, les partisans du "non" estiment que le passage aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique serait prématuré dans le contexte actuel.

Pour eux, l'extinction des conflits qui subsistent sur le continent doit constituer la priorité des dirigeants africains.

Dans un communiqué, l'Union africaine indique vaguement que ce sommet sera l'occasion de réfléchir à l'intégration politique et économique du continent "en vue de l'ultime objectif de la création des Etats-Unis d'Afrique".

# Postato domenica 01 luglio 2007 18:36