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African Union designates 2025 as the Year of Reparations
📅 18 February 2024The AU Assembly adopted a Ghanaian proposal to make “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” its 2025 theme. The decision asked for stronger continental coordination, a...
African Assembly extends the reparations agenda into a decade
📅 15 February 2026Assembly Decision 942 extended the 2025 theme into a 2026–2035 Decade of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations. This carries a movement demand into a longer...
AU decision frames contemporary Pan-Africanism through Ubuntu
📅 15 February 2026The Assembly decision describes a renewed Pan-Africanism grounded in endogenous African values and Ubuntu, emphasizing interdependence and solidarity. This is a political framing adopted by...
AU decision reaffirms Africa and its diaspora as a community of destiny
📅 15 February 2026Decision 942 calls for lasting transnational ties based on solidarity, shared memory and a common future. It extends a long Pan-African debate about who belongs to the political community and how...
AU calls for common African position on historical crimes and reparations
📅 15 February 2026The Assembly urges a common position seeking recognition, apologies and reparatory processes for slavery, deportation, colonization, genocide, apartheid and looting. The resolution records a political...
AU invokes the Durban Declaration against structural racism
📅 15 February 2026The Assembly calls for full implementation of the 2001 Durban Declaration, including education, truthful African history and public-policy reform. Its inclusion links current reparations diplomacy...
AU calls for a united front against racism and cultural dispossession
📅 15 February 2026The Assembly calls on African states, diaspora communities and justice-seeking peoples to oppose racism, support restitution of looted cultural property and pursue structural reforms. The language...
AU renews demand for reform of multilateral institutions
📅 15 February 2026Decision 942 describes reform of the postwar multilateral order as necessary to address Africa’s marginalization. This joins reparatory justice to present-day governance and representation, beyond...
Burundi assumes the rotating AU chair for 2026
📅 15 February 2026President Évariste Ndayishimiye assumed the rotating chairmanship at the 39th Assembly. Rotation broadens regional representation in continental leadership, though chairmanship does not transfer the...
39th AU Assembly concludes and adopts its 2026 decisions
📅 15 February 2026The Assembly concluded two days of deliberation and adopted its decisions, declarations and resolutions. Its resolutions on reparations, global governance and integration carry forward Pan-African...