Togo is preparing to host the 9th Pan-African Congress next year. After the official launch last May in Lomé, preparations have now begun.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Dussey, has been in Pretoria (South Africa) since 04 December 2023, where the Regional Preparatory Conference for Southern Africa is taking place.
The event, which is one of six of its kind planned in the various regions, is being held under the theme of “Pan-Africanism, science, knowledge and technology”. The aim is to build institutional bridges between the countries of the southern region and their diasporas in the run-up to the Lomé meeting, to work on concrete proposals to be submitted at the Congress, and to facilitate South-South cooperation in the various areas covered by the theme.
The work that ended on Tuesday 05 December will be followed by five other regional conferences.
The Lomé Congress will be the fourth on the continent, following those held in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Kampala (Uganda) and Johannesburg (South Africa). The first five Pan-African Congresses were held outside Africa (mainly in Europe, with the exception of the 4th in New York).
