Thu 31 Jul 2008
I am currently in Congo, Brazaville attending the second ordinary congress of the PanAfrican Youth Union, one of the specialised agencies of the African Union Commission and the representative body for youth matters. I have been involved in the revitalisation of the organisation since 2005, and was invited by the organisers of the meeting and the African Union Commission to present the draft revised statutes of the Union.
Its been an entirely interesting process since we got here. Even though I am used to power outages, I saw the greatest wonder in my entire life. There was no power in the parliament building for almost half the day and we were told that the operator of the back-up generator was at home so they had to go look for him. Dont ask me about the details…
The congress is going entirely well, and new Executive will be elected today. There has been quite some interesting debate on the revised statutes and hopefully it will be completed today. I will write more when I get the time because its alittle difficult for me to use a french keyboard.