Report on Continental Union

(PANA)-As African leaders prepare for their next summit in Addis Ababa next month, the 13-member high-level panel they tasked at the July Accra Summit to carry out an audit of the African Union (AU) for purposes of facilitating political integration of the continent on Thursday presented its Report to President John Agyekum Kufuor at the Castle, Osu.

The panel set up in September and chaired by Professor Adebayo Adedeji took a little over three months to complete its job, the Ghana News Agency reported.

The Report comes in three parts - part one gives a background to the demand for Union Government, part two identifies "accelerators" while the final part deals with what the roadmap should be and ways to fast track the process.

President Kufuor, who is Chairman of the AU, praised the panel for its work of helping the Heads of State and Governments "to define the continent the way it should be defined".

Africa, he said, had always been in search of itself adding that through extensive consultations with the African public by the panel, the document could be said to be owned by Africans.


He directed that copies should be circulated to all African leaders, representatives of Africans in the Diaspora and Council of Ministers to guide the Heads of State and Governments at their next Summit.

Professor Adedeji said the panel interacted extensively with stakeholders and considered more than 300 documents and proposals.

This is the first time in the history of the Pan-African organisation that there has been such an audit of its established organs in terms of policy and programme implementation.

He said although it would not be possible to put a date on the formation of the union government, they identified alternative routes to speed up its realization.

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