{"id":48729,"date":"2023-08-19T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/politique\/at-the-brics-media-forum-cheikh-tidiane-gadio-pleads-for-the-formation-of-large-regional-blocs-in-africa"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:29:40","slug":"at-the-brics-media-forum-cheikh-tidiane-gadio-pleads-for-the-formation-of-large-regional-blocs-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/politique\/at-the-brics-media-forum-cheikh-tidiane-gadio-pleads-for-the-formation-of-large-regional-blocs-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"At the BRICS media forum, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio pleads for the formation of large regional blocs in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Senegal. <\/strong><\/span>Former Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio pleaded, on Saturday, in Johannesburg, at the 6th BRICS media forum, for the formation of large regional blocs in Africa, inviting the People’s Republic of China to encourage the States of the continent to move towards this dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Concerning our personal opinion, without interfering, China should encourage its African partners to engage resolutely in the construction of large regional blocks (…) I am convinced that the fragmentation of our States and the balkanization of our peoples in 54 states will weigh down all the efforts of Africans themselves and those of their greatest partners and friends,\u00a0\u00bb said Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, introducing a communication entitled \u00ab\u00a0Africa facing the challenges of innovative partnerships\u00a0\u00bb. .<\/p>\n

Speaking before some 200 participants – media leaders, journalists, experts, ministers, businessman, etc. – Mr. Gadio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal from 2000 to 2009, estimated that \u00ab\u00a054 African States, it has been a ruinous and paralyzing competition since independence in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result, according to the member of the National Assembly, is there: zero emerging African countries. And yet in 1960, China and many Asian countries such as Africa faced the suffering inflicted on the peoples of the Third World by underdevelopment: regular famines, malnutrition, illiteracy, absence of basic infrastructure, health, education, internal conflicts, wars, etc.\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Cheikh Tidiane Gadio noted that \u00ab\u00a0all major Asian countries or all thousand-year-old or multi-century Asian nations are World Global Players or nations on the path to undeniable emergence\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Africa, for its part, he deplores, \u201cremained divided, weakened, and handed over to more powerful, better organized partners\u201d.<\/p>\n

As much as \u00ab\u00a0China supports Africa at the United Nations and vice versa, as much as a friendly power\u00a0\u00bb, Beijing \u00ab\u00a0should encourage African States to come together and build credible, viable and strong political and economic Unions\u00a0\u00bb , he estimated.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u00ab\u00a0it is in China’s interest to speak to an entity bringing together the 15 ECOWAS States: 400 million inhabitants, 5 million km2, immense resources in petro-gas, coffee, cocoa , gold, diamond, bauxite, iron and other minerals including Uranium (…)\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0In addition to all these abundant resources, the ECOWAS space like the other regions of Africa, holds the most precious resource like no other: the Youth resource. Nearly 300 million young people out of a population of 400 million,\u00a0\u00bb said the former minister, stressing that these observations were also valid for the SADC (Southern African States Development Community).<\/p>\n

According to Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, \u00ab\u00a0an ECOWAS transformed into a federation of West African States could receive infrastructural and other mega-projects within the framework of the immense Silk Road projects\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

He believes that \u201ctalking to five African interlocutors representing strong regional federations would be more beneficial and more effective than talking to 54 states which are almost all still fallow and have similar needs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pour plus d’informations et d’analyses sur la Senegal<\/a>, suivez Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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