President Bola Tinubu is set to depart Abuja for Accra, Ghana to participate in the Sixth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union (AU).
The meeting, scheduled for July 18-21, 2024, will deliberate on regional economic communities, regional mechanisms, and African Union member states.
As Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Tinubu will address the meeting on regional integration in Africa, highlighting achievements and challenges in West Africa since the last meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, in July 2023, according to Independent.
He will also present the ‘2024 Report on the State of the Community’, focusing on peace, regional security, governance, economic integration, humanitarian and social development, energy, mines, and agriculture.
The meeting is being held under the AU theme ‘Educate and Skill Africa for the 21st Century’.
The Mid-Year Coordination Meeting was established in 2017 to align the work of the AU and regional economic communities, replacing the June/July summits.
In Accra, the agenda includes evaluating the AU’s early warning and conflict prevention mechanisms and promoting cooperation among regional economic communities to accelerate integration. A declaration is expected to be adopted at the end of the meeting.
President Tinubu will be accompanied by senior government officials and will return to the country at the conclusion of the meeting.
The President, who will be accompanied by senior government officials, will return to the country at the conclusion of the meeting,” a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity added on Friday.
