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Afri
can leaders are to meet in the Nigerian capital to discuss
putting into practice the continent's own plan to escape the
poverty trap, AFP reports Nigeria said Wednesday.
Heads of state and government from 20 African countries have been
invited to attend Sunday's meeting in Abuja to discuss the New
Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
NEPAD, which was drawn up by African presidents, has been welcomed
by the leaders of the rich world and adopted by the UN General
Assembly as a blueprint for Africa's development. Nigeria's
Olusegun Obasanjo, who is chairman of NEPAD's implementation
committee, will host the meeting.
His fellow NEPAD architects Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Abdoulaye
Wade of Senegal, Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and Mohammed Hosni
Mubarak of Egypt, have also been invited. President Paul Biya of
Cameroon is also invited. Some 15 more African leaders have also
been invited either as committee members or observers, along with
Amara Essy, the interim chairman of the Commission of the African
Union.
Top of the agenda will be putting into practice a "peer review
mechanism" under which African leaders can hold their colleagues to
account under NEPAD's prescribed standards of good governance.
Under this system any African leader who fails to live up to
promises of open, accountable, democratic government could be
sanctioned by his peers, the statement said. Earlier this month, 60
African economy ministers met in Johannesburg, South Africa, to
fashion ways to implement NEPAD in their respective countries, it
also said.
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