On October 18, 2024, Prof. Robert DUSSEY, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and Togolese Abroad, chaired the 8th meeting of the High Committee in charge of the agenda for the Decade of African Roots and the African Diaspora.
The meeting, held online, was attended by H.E. Dr Monique NSANZABAGANWA, Vice-President of the African Union Commission, representatives of the committee’s member states, and the African Union Commission’s Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO).
The meeting provided an opportunity for Minister DUSSEY to apologize to member states for any inconvenience caused by the postponement of the 9th Pan-African Congress.
He gave two reasons for the postponement: firstly, logistical reasons; secondly, the government’s desire to make the Congress more inclusive, notably by involving all interested States, populations, Afro-descendant communities, pan-African and pan-Africanist associations and organizations, so as to leave no one out.
The exact date of the 9th Pan-African Congress, which will now take place next year, will be communicated in due course, following internal consultations between Togo and the African Union Commission.
The participants expressed their keen interest in participating at the highest level in the 9th Congress. They congratulated the Togolese government which, under the leadership of the President of the Republic H.E. Faure Essozimna GNASSINGBE, is resolutely continuing preparations for this important international meeting, which will bring together the continent’s Africans and Afro-descendants at a time of renewed Pan-Africanism.
