Only 4 African Leaders Decided To Attend The African Union Donors Conference On Famine

Few African Leaders Show Up For Famine Summit -- L.A. Times

Only four of 54 member nations attend the African Union donors conference in Ethiopia, aimed at raising money to ease the crisis in the Horn of Africa.



Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa—Most of Africa's heads of state failed to turn up Thursday for the first African Union donor conference in Ethiopia to raise money for the Horn of Africa famine, leaving activists disappointed with the pledges.



Of the African Union's 54 member nations, only the heads of Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Djibouti participated in the conference in Addis Ababa, along with the head of the transitional government in Somalia, the country hit hardest by the famine. Critics accused African leaders of failing to make good on their rhetoric about finding African solutions for African problems.



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My Comment: Only 4 African leaders decide to show up ..... either they know something that we do not .... or this is just another sad example on the poor state of affairs in Africa.