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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The African Union’s entry to the G20 on Saturday was welcomed by leaders across Africa who said the move would give the continent a “voice”.<\/b><\/p>\n

Until recently, South Africa was the only African country that was part of the grouping.<\/p>\n

“Kenya welcomes the addition of the African Union — the fastest growing continent in the world — to the G20,” Kenyan President William Ruto wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

“This will increase the voice of Africa, visibility, and influence on the global stage and provide a platform to advance the common interest of our people.”<\/p>\n

“With Africa poised to grow in the coming years, a seat will allow it to shape the decisions of G20 to ensure the continent’s interests are advanced,” Ruto said in a sperate statement.<\/p>\n

“The outcome of the just concluded Africa Climate Summit including fundamental reforms of international financial institutions and multilateral development banks is one thing that AU will advance,” he added.<\/p>\n

AU Commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat said earlier that the move will allow the continent to make “its effective contribution” in helping the world meet global challenges.<\/p>\n

“This membership, for which we have long been advocating, will provide a propitious framework for amplifying advocacy in favour of the Continent and its effective contribution to meeting global challenges,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

– ‘A great day’ –<\/b><\/p>\n

Comoros president and current AU chairman Azali Assoumani said “it’s a great day for me… but also for the whole of Africa, which has just joined the G20, with great emotion and pride”.<\/p>\n

The African Union at full strength has 55 members but six junta-ruled nations are currently suspended. Collectively, it has a GDP of $3 trillion with some 1.4 billion people.<\/p>\n

As the G20, the grouping included 19 countries and the European Union, representing 85 percent of the world’s GDP, with South Africa its only member state from the continent.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was “delighted” by the move.<\/p>\n

Issues around climate change “can only be addressed collectively and with a great deal of solidarity” he added, and “access to adequate and predictable financial resources from a variety of public and private sources is critical if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”.<\/p>\n

“As a continent, we look forward to further advancing our aspirations on the global stage using the G20 platform,” Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is at the summit, posted on X.<\/p>\n

Senegaal’s President Macky Sall also welcomed the African Union’s inclusion in the G20, for which he had long advocated.<\/p>\n

“I warmly thank all the members of the G20 for their support for this initiative, which I championed during my term at the head of the African Union”, said Sall, who assumed the AU presidency in 2022 until the beginning of 2023.<\/p>\n

This advocacy “reflects his vision of fairer and more inclusive global political, economic and financial governance,” Senegal’s foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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