‘Africa needs to solve its own problems’– CoDA Executive Director 

The Coalition for Dialogue on Africa, CoDA has said that for Africa to have a sustainable development, the continent must aspire to solve its own problems with little help from foreign bodies.

At a media briefing ahead of the launch of an independent Task team on vaccine production and Distribution in Africa held in Benin, Edo state,  the CoDA, Executive Director,  Ms. Souad Aden Osman, said it was time Africa took its destiny into its own hands by providing solutions to her problems instead of depending on nations from other continents.

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According to Ms. Aden Osman who also heads the secretariat of the African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows, IFFs from Africa (HLP on IFFs), Africa must find the capacity to produce what it needs from what it already has by engaging critical sectors with a view to finding solutions to African problems.

“What Africa needs to do is We must produce what we need and consume what we produce.” 

“We need to lift things blocking us and ensure that the private sector comes in forcefully to ensure we find solutions”  Ms Souad said.

About CoDA
Established in 2009, CoDA is a policy-oriented platform that brings together various actors into African Union intergovernmental conversations in a structured manner through dialogues and debates that articulate ideas of diverse groups of individuals on specific issues of continental interest.

The CoDA initiative aims to ensure synergy and collaborative tackling of problems by African nations  to give them a level playing field in the comity of nations.

The Coalition is an independent, international, Africa-owned forum which identifies and discusses issues related to Africa’s development in a global context.

Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo is the current chairman of the CoDA.

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