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Addis
Ababa – Outgoing African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
has slammed US President Donald Trump for the second time. This
time she said his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries could herald « turbulent times » for Africa.
In
her last opening address to the African Union’s heads of state summit on
Monday, Dlamini-Zuma told leaders: « We are entering very turbulent times. »
« The
very country to which many of our people were taken as slaves during the
transatlantic slave trade has now decided to ban refugees from some of our
countries. What do we do about this? Indeed, this is one of the greatest
challenges to our unity and solidarity, » she said.
Libya,
Somalia and Sudan are the African countries affected by the ban.
Dlamini-Zuma
last Tuesday also expressed concern about Trump’s presidency, saying it could
affect the global advances made in the fight for gender equality as well as
combatting climate change.
A
US diplomat stationed in Addis Ababa, however, said Dlamini-Zuma wrote them a « friendly » letter saying she looked forward to working with Trump. In the
letter she also formally acknowledged former president Barack Obama as the
first US president to visit the African Union.
African leaders fear that Trump’s policy of « America first » will mean less aid and assistance to countries on the African continent.
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