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*African Leaders Must Stop Going to UN With Appeals and Start Speaking With Sovereign Power — PeacePro*

The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has called on African leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly to move beyond speeches and appeals and begin backing African positions with concrete diplomatic, economic, legal and security action.

In a statement authorised by its Executive Director, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, PeacePro said Africa has spent decades articulating concerns about international law, sovereignty, foreign interference, global inequality, conflicts and reform of the international system, but has too often failed to match those positions with the capacity required to make them consequential.

“Africa does not have a shortage of speeches. Africa has a shortage of power behind its speeches,” Hamzat said.

He urged African leaders to approach the United Nations as representatives of sovereign states with clearly defined interests and the capacity to defend those interests.

“A sovereign position must have sovereign capacity behind it. African leaders should not approach the international system as petitioners seeking permission to defend Africa’s legitimate interests,” he said.

Similarly, demands for respect for African sovereignty must be accompanied by stronger African security, intelligence, economic and institutional capacity.

“Every major African declaration should answer a simple question What are we prepared to do if our position is ignored?” Hamzat asked.

PeacePro stressed that its position is not a call for confrontation with other parts of the world or for Africa to isolate itself from the international community.
Rather, it is a call for strategic equality.

“Africa should cooperate with the United States, China, Russia, Europe, India and every other global power where such cooperation advances African interests. But meaningful partnership requires the capacity to negotiate, not merely the obligation to comply,” Hamzat said.

PeacePro called for a new approach to African diplomacy that it described as “Speech to Action Diplomacy.”

Under this approach, major positions announced by African leaders at the UN should be followed by measurable actions at national, regional or continental levels.

If Africa defends international law, PeacePro said, it should strengthen African legal and diplomatic mechanisms capable of defending it.

If Africa opposes foreign interference, it should develop the intelligence, institutional and economic resilience required to resist it.

If Africa demands economic sovereignty, it must invest in financial institutions, industrialisation, energy security, technology and intra-African trade.

If Africa calls for peace and security, it must develop the financial, logistical and military capabilities necessary to sustain African led peace operations.

And if Africa demands greater influence in global governance, it must build the economic and diplomatic leverage necessary to make that influence meaningful.

PeacePro said Africa's own Agenda 2063 provides a strategic vision of a continent that is united, resilient and influential in global affairs. The challenge, it said, is translating that vision into institutional capacity and measurable action.

He called on African governments to deliberately build the capabilities that determine strategic autonomy, including energy, food, finance, technology, industry, defence, maritime security, transportation, education, intelligence and institutional governance.

“Africa should not merely tell the world what it wants. Africa must build the capacity to make its choices consequential,” Hamzat said.

He added that “The era of speeches without strategy, declarations without implementation and demands without enforcement must give way to an era of African capacity, African coordination and African strategic action.”

PeacePro said the true measure of African sovereignty would not be the applause received after an African president delivers a powerful speech at the United Nations.
“It will be what Africa is capable of doing after the speech is over.”

https://factualtimesng.com/un-general-assembly-start-speaking-with-sovereign-power-peacepro-tasks-african-leaders/

Yes o... Long overdue abiiii

African can only speak

They cannot talk

Or the people that give us money to eat will be angry

Reading this after watching Ruto of South Africa speak beautifully at the UN summit.
Honestly we should start speaking with authority not like one almajiri

this will be achievable when African leaders start using the resources in their disposal in building real human capital development and show casing international reputable image for themselves .
we cannot be relying on all the world bank ,imf loans with nothing to show for our people yet you want to have a voice in the comity of nations.
this really looks like a joke.

With what leverage ?

If the west wanted they will wipe us out and there us nothing we can do to stop them

Develop leverage then we can make demand

Not knowing your worth or capabilities is bad really

We need colonial imperialism. They did better .

For that to happen, the African Union has to stop being funded by the West. You cannot speak truth to power against your financier. Corrupt African leaders won't stop until Nigeria, which is supposed to be Africa's natural leader, gets its act together and stops it.

Those African leaders just go there to act like we're begging to be recognized.
Meanwhile that's not true.
Thank God tinubu did not even attend

mrvitalis:
With what leverage ?

If the west wanted they will wipe us out and there us nothing we can do to stop them

Develop leverage then we can make demand

Not knowing your worth or capabilities is bad really

You're part of the problem. Asslicking the west and campaigning against infrastructure lol

When you are still battling with sovereign poverty and insecurity

tollyboy5:
You're part of the problem. Asslicking the west and campaigning against infrastructure lol

if Tinubu is not ass licking the west what is he doing in France?
Where is the infrastructure?
Where are the societal developments?
Why can't he stay here to build those things he rushes up there to enjoy?
You guys are pathetic and one of the problems we have in Africa .just food for today is all that solves your problems

After all una borrowing? Then why borrow money like slaves?

Cho cho cho...no unity

They divided the continent with different colonisers

"African Leaders Must Stop Going to UN With Appeals and Start Speaking With Sovereign Power"

How can this be possible, when they have borrowed money from everyone and are still look for other conners to borrow from.

They all go there to talk about Palestine when Gaza is far better than African cities when Israel handed it over to Aran Palestinians.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ7-yqxs7Hc

See others in the meeting paying attention and taking note, look at the people behind shittima, all scrolling through their phoned.

Imagine the supposed bright minds representing Nigeria lol

A fantastic opportunity to solidify Africa's influence on the global stage through strategic investments and leadership.

Technical Writer

experts:
*African Leaders Must Stop Going to UN With Appeals and Start Speaking With Sovereign Power — PeacePro*


https://factualtimesng.com/un-general-assembly-start-speaking-with-sovereign-power-peacepro-tasks-african-leaders/

Power is taken, not given

That why USA can invade Iraq and killed over 1 million innocent civilians and call it a mistake all in the name to control they resources.

And they can kidnapped a seating president and install a puppet just to steal their oil and gold .

Our useless leaders can keep up begging from now till thy kingdom comes they will never give Africa a seat at the security council unless we unite And fight for it .

tollyboy5:
You're part of the problem. Asslicking the west and campaigning against infrastructure lol

So if American wants to come and take your village land what exactly can you do ?

How, when the so called gaint of the Africa dey hide ?

Ghanian president delivered a powerful speech. I remembered him saying Africa does not seek for charity but partnership, and it’s long overdue, Africa demands for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council. That man deserves to lead a united Africa if one is possible.

A lot of our politicians are opportunists in Africa.

They really do not deserve their positions but got there anyway by chance or by appealing to voters’ sentimental side.

Do you think a businessman like Trump or Dangote would face other leaders and be soliciting?

If you have worked hard all your life, built businesses, failed, survived, and still continued being successful, then you have probably seen it all and perhaps more experienced that most world leaders. You would be speaking from a place of experience, and your worldview would be powerful while knowing your limits, of course.

This was similar to what the military rulers had.

We need leaders who are builders, not all these accountants and lawyers who do not know what it means to build, repair, or generate something out of nothing.

lonecatt:
if Tinubu is not ass licking the west what is he doing in France?
Where is the infrastructure?
Where are the societal developments?
Why can't he stay here to build those things he rushes up there to enjoy?
You guys are pathetic and one of the problems we have in Africa .just food for today is all that solves your problems

But tinubu and macron has been close since when he use to come to Lagos.
Was macros asslicking Nigeria?

I'm talking about major infrastructure you're talking about societal development you should hold your state government and local government for after the local government autonomy.
But No, you won't do that.
Hope you're seeing how you're a contributor?

The assertion that African leaders should stop appealing and start speaking with sovereign power ignores the fundamental root of the problem,a crippling lack of domestic legitimacy and competence.For many African nations, particularly across sub Saharan Africa, the processes that bring leaders into office are deeply entangled with institutional corruption and political patronage rather than genuine merit. When leadership is built on a foundation of compromised elections and systemic fraud, it fails to earn the domestic mandate required to project real authority on the world stage.A leadership that struggles with transparency, financial mismanagement, and economic dependence at home cannot suddenly command deep respect at a UN summit. You cannot effectively demand global equity when you are financially dependent on the very superpowers you are trying to challenge. Until internal governance is cleaned up and leaders earn their positions through competence and accountability, their speeches abroad will lack the moral high ground and weight needed to be taken seriously by the international community.

tollyboy5:
But tinubu and macron has been close since when he use to come to Lagos.
Was macros asslicking Nigeria?

I'm talking about major infrastructure you're talking about societal development you should hold your state government and local government for after the local government autonomy.
But No, you won't do that.
Hope you're seeing how you're a contributor?

how many of the other presidents in the country he visits come down here for medical tourism and other waste of public funds?
How can you be talking of holding State governments accountable when they are not independent and in full control of governance?
They are forced to join the ruling party and controlled by the leadership remotely.
Their primary duty is one thing to make sure the president remains in power.

The man wey fir stand talk go hide for France

lonecatt:
how many of the other presidents in the country he visits come down here for medical tourism and other waste of public funds?
How can you be talking of holding State governments accountable when they are not independent and in full control of governance?
They are forced to join the ruling party and controlled by the leadership remotely.
Their primary duty is one thing to make sure the president remains in power.

They're not in full control of governance of their state?
But we have makinde of Oyo and elex otti. Adeleke did not beat incumbent governor tinubu's brother?
Is this how you give excuses for your local government chairman and governor because they're from your tribe but put the whole blame on the president?

Go and be accountable Sir.

The man with the gun is greater than the man with the money

The only thing a man with a gun fears is another man with a gun

I won't say more than this

“Every major African declaration should answer a simple question What are we prepared to do if our position is ignored?”

The answer is nothing. African speeches and positions are never taken seriously, even by fellow African countries, and are routinely ignored.