Kenya will virtually host the African – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit tomorrow, Tuesday, 7th September 2021, to be chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The theme of the Summit is Unity across Continents and Oceans: Opportunities for Deepening Integration. The Summit aims at ensuring closer collaboration between Africans in Diaspora, the people of African descent and the Caribbean, and the pacific.
The Summit will strengthen the cultural and historical linkages existing between the people of Africa and the Africa Diaspora, as well as people of Africa descent.
Issues facing the economy and communication will be addressed and improving continent-to-continent integration. In addition, an organization to collaborate with the African and Caribbean regions will be launched.
Other issues to be addressed include:
- Debt sustainability and development financing
- trade investment and economic integration
- the blue economy and transport connectivity
- fintech-related solutions
- political integration between Africa and Caribbean countries
- people to people contacts and cultural exchanges
- COVID-19 pandemic management and AU-CARRICOM collaboration
This first-ever Summit is taking place Fifty-eight years since the 1963 establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and Fifty-three years after the founding of the Caribbean Free Trade Organization (CARIFTA)
The Summit will bring together Heads of State and Government of the African Union and the Caribbean Community Member States, as well as Chair of the African Union Commission, Chairs of Africa Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the CARICOM Troika, the CARICOM Secretariat, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), and the President of Caribbean Development Bank.
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