Saint-Louis, Jan 6 (APS) – The African Diplomatic Academy (ADA) is working to better take into account the Haitian cause, revealed its founding president, Benoît Ngom.
“This country [Haïti] made up essentially of Afro-descendants is abandoned by the Americans and Europeans,” lamented Mr. Ngom.
Speaking in a telephone interview with APS, Benoît Ngom believes that Africans should not have the same attitude towards this Caribbean country.
“It is in this spirit that the ADA intends to act, in collaboration with American, European and African universities, by organizing series of actions which will allow us to raise awareness among Africans of the Haitian cause, in order to enable the first Black Republic to regain its place in the concert of African nations,” he said.
The day after the celebration of the 221st anniversary of this country’s independence, he underlined his desire to “sensitize Africans to the fate of Haiti”, whose population of African origin “founded the first black Republic. Which should be seen as a source of pride for Africans.”
Contrary to this, the cause of the Haitians leaves them generally indifferent, deplores Benoît Ngom.
While last December marked the end of the decade of Afro-descendants decreed by the United Nations in 2014, no major action was noted on the continent in support of this initiative, he regretted. .
He recalled that it was “following a devastating earthquake that occurred on January 12, 2010, that President Wade of Senegal decided that his country was going to offer $500,000 to Haiti and welcome 163 students from this country to continue their studies in Dakar. »
Senegal, through this generous and noble gesture, he said, reaffirmed the solidity of its relations with Haiti, several of whose sons resided in Senegal since the 1960s and participated in its development.
According to Mr. Ngom, “the question of the return of Afro-descendants to Africa is not current” however. “We must recognize that their homeland is where they live.”
On the other hand, he believes that Africa had to affirm its responsibility in relation to the legacy of slavery by unanimously voting for the resolution which makes the African diaspora the 6th region of the continent.
Haiti is going through a political and institutional crisis marked by a rise in gang power since the assassination of its president Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
The ADA, a coalition in favor of African development, brings together personalities from the political, economic and diplomatic world.
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