The African Union Reiterates the African Union’s rejection of the continuing discriminatory practices against Black citizens of the United States of America…

American Police taking African American Goerge Floyd’s life in Mennesota, USA.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia:

Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has strongly condemned the murder of George Floyd which occurred in the United States of America at the hands of law enforcement officers.

The Chairperson has extended his deepest condolences to the victim’s family and loved ones.

[Goerge Floyd’s murder comes not as a surprise, but as part of an endless chain of racist attacks against people of African origin living in the United States; attacks which have persisted ever since Africans were taken into slavery hundreds of years back].

Recalling the historic Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU) Resolution on Racial Discrimination in the United States of America, a resolution made by African Heads of State and Government at the OAU’s First Assembly Meeting held in Cairo, Egypt from 17 to 24 July 1964, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission firmly reaffirms and reiterates the African Union’s rejection of the continuing discriminatory practices against Black citizens of the United States of America.

He further urges authorities in the United States of America to intensify their efforts to ensure the total elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.

Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat

[The murder of an African American is murder of an African in view of enduring Pan African policy].

With the return of Morocco into the African Union in 2017, all African states are members of the African Union. The 55 members are grouped into five geographic regions: 1. North Africa, 2. Southern Africa, 3. West Africa, 4. East Africa and 5. Central Africa. The African Diaspora–which includes African Americans–is accepted as the 6th region.

The African Union also recognizes eight regional economic communities (UMA, COMESA, CEN-SAD, EAC, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD and SADC where an attack on any member state is an attack on the rest of the members.

A resolution was made in Accra, Ghana, in March 2015, calling African nations to speed up incorporating into the African Union, the 6th region of the Continent– the African Diaspora.

This resolution was part of resolutions made to recapture the old African desire for unity, to re-ignite the Pan African spirit, to enthuse commitment to the African identity and to inject energy into the Pan-African Movement According to West Africa Brief

[For articles which reveal how the United States may actually be a hate-filled nation with domestic terrorists in police uniform, a nation of Christian master pretenders, also read the following:]

1. Unpacking Linkage between Evangelical Christianity, Racism and the Republican Party in America…

2. It is Dangerous to be Black in Racist America…

3. America’s Self-Image cracking over racism

4. Racism: The Real, Enduring ‘Cancer’ in American Society

5. AU policy on the African Diaspora