HE Moussa Faki the Chairperson, African Union Commission PO Box
To: H.E Moussa Faki The Chairperson, African Union Commission P.O. Box P.O. Box 3243, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 13 April 2020 Your Excellency, Re: Open letter on the Xenophobic, racist and inhuman treatment of Africans in China We present our compliments to Your Excellency. The undersigned Peoples represent a broad cross-section of the citizens of the African Union (AU) and include civil society organisations (CSOs), women organisations and feminist movements, labour and students movements, youth organisations, professional associations, lawyers, judges, academicians, business people, clergy, artists, activists and journalists. We note with appreciation the AU’s commitment to the continued transforming of the AU from a union of governments to a genuine union of African peoples that values popular participation and ownership by African peoples. We further appreciate the AU's commitment to ensuring that Africa is socially, politically and economically integrated. That the continent speaks with one voice in global affairs. We understand the basis and values of partnership that the drive AU Agenda 2063, including the values of equality, mutual accountability, reciprocity and solidarity. In this regard and given the excellent relationship the AU and majority of its member states have so far enjoyed with China, we want to register our most profound concern and strongly condemn the recent acts of discrimination, xenophobia and racism against the Africans in China. We welcome the statements of the African Group of Ambassadors in Beijing and reactions from different African governments and your good offices in this regard. There is need to transform these statements into practical action that puts an end to the horrendous dehumanisation of Africans in China.
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