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 Posted - 12 May 2015 : 15:17:08
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‘Africans themselves have to demand for their rights’
By Rohey Jadama
Foroyaa: Published on May 11, 2015
The United States of America’s Ambassador to the African Union (AU) Mr. Reuben Brigety, has said that Africans have to demand for
themselves that their own governments respect the rights they sworn and agreed to. He said African countries themselves have adopted anumber of treaties, protocols and agreements to uphold the human rights of their own people.
Ambassador Brigety said this in a press conference at the American Corner along the Kairaba Avenue on Friday 8th May 2015 with Journalists and students from the University of the Gambia School of Journalism and Digital Media.
He said that as a friend of the continent they are not pushing Africans and that they should not push Africans to do anything that Africans have not decided in their own and do for themselves – how African institutions and governments make real and effective human rights objectives and the human rights standards that their governments have adopted themselves.
He opined that the nature of the US and AU Partnership is based on four pillars, which are partnerships on democracy and good governance
in Africa, Private sector Economic Growth and Investment, Peace and Security and Opportunity and Development.
He indicated that the reason why democracy and good governance is the first pillar is because Africa’s peace and prosperity depends on its investment in democracy and good governance and part of which is human rights in the continent. He said that is the reason why he came to the Gambia.....
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Africans themselves have to demand for their righs
