For Africa, 2025 Will Be About Seizing Opportunities Amid Challenges

Voters successful much than 17 African countries made up a sizable information of nan estimated 3.7 cardinal group who formed ballots crossed nan globe successful 2024. Now, pinch nan twelvemonth of elections drafting to a close, galore Africans are looking up to 2025 arsenic a “year of momentum.”

For starters, Africans crossed nan continent will beryllium marking a slew of landmark occasions pinch which to propel that momentum forward. Mozambique, Cabo Verde and Sao Tome and Principe will observe 50 years of independency from Portuguese assemblage rule, while Gambia will commemorate nan 60th day of its independency from nan United Kingdom. Later successful nan year, nan Economic Community of West African States, aliases ECOWAS, will move 50, while nan East African Community will people nan 25th day of its reestablishment.

Next twelvemonth will besides spot a number of momentous occasions connected nan governmental and negotiated agenda. The African Union will formally name a caller group of leaders, including nan chairperson of its opinionated commission, astatine its leaders’ acme successful February. At that aforesaid meeting, Angolan President Joao Lourenco will presume nan organization’s one-year rotating chair. AU leaders will besides stitchery pinch their counterparts from nan European Union for nan seventh AU-EU summit, while African states will subordinate nan corporate festivities to observe nan 80th day of nan founding of nan United Nations. The African Development Bank, aliases AfDB, will elite a caller president to switch Akinwumi Adesina, who will measurement down aft serving 2 terms. And South Africa, which assumed nan G20 presidency connected Dec. 1, will adjacent retired its word by hosting nan group’s acme adjacent fall.