18 February 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of State and Government,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations,<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. President of the Commission of the Union,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ladies and Gentlemen, Ambassadors and Heads of Delegations,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Guests,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On your behalf and my own, I thank the Ethiopian government for its warm welcome and the arrangements made to support the organization of our Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I salute and thank all the colleagues, heads of delegations, and guests present here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are convening as our countries continue to face the combined effects of climate change, an unprecedented health crisis, and a major war, which is plunging the entire world into a dangerous and uncertain sequence, the end of which no one can predict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, the advance of terrorism on the continent, the persistence of old and new conflicts, and the resurgence of coups d’\u00e9tat add to our challenges, even though the holding of free and transparent elections confirms the anchoring of democracy in many of our countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During my mandate, I have endeavored to support the resolution of disputes and accompany political transitions, with the support of the Commission and the regional economic communities and mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is clear that the pacification of the continent remains a goal to be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I urgently call for the implementation of the commitments from the Extraordinary Summit of Malabo in May 2022; namely, to operationalize the African Standby Force, create a Counter-Terrorism Unit, and finance our efforts to combat this scourge in a more substantial and predictable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This struggle, as I indicated in my address to the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, also falls under the responsibility of the Security Council, the guarantor of the collective security mechanism; because the advance of terrorism in Africa poses a threat to international peace and security. As it has done elsewhere, the Council must engage more effectively in the fight against terrorism in Africa, with more robust mandates and adequate funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In any case, the challenge of peace, security, and stability on the continent compels us to lay down arms and find peaceful solutions to our disputes so that we can better devote ourselves to the tasks of economic and social development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the geopolitical reconfiguration of the world, a historic opportunity is presented to us to close the era of Africa as a problem and open the way for Africa as a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have all the potential; because a continent of 30 million square kilometers, with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, abundantly endowed with all kinds of resources, cannot be condemned to lag behind the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The emergence of Africa is within our reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But to achieve this, we must dedicate more time to the agenda for the economic and social development of the continent, which we have updated this year with the summits on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These themes remind us of the urgencies we must address in order to realize the Africa we want for ourselves, for our children, and for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the persistence of violence against women and girls, and our significant lag in infrastructure, I call on the Union to make urgent decisions to implement the conclusions of the Dakar meetings on these two themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding the 2nd Dakar Conference on Agriculture and Food Security (Dakar 2), co-organized by Senegal and the African Development Bank (AfDB) from January 25 to 27, under the theme “Feeding Africa, Food Sovereignty and Resilience,” the record high-level participation made it an action-oriented summit for an Africa that finally gives itself the means to feed itself and contribute to feeding the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, based on their priority programs, several countries have signed Compacts with bilateral and multilateral partners aimed at boosting agricultural production, processing, and trade, for a total announced amount of 36 billion dollars, including 10 billion from the AfDB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I express our gratitude to all our bilateral and multilateral partners for their contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I warmly thank our brother Akinwumi Adesina, President of the AfDB Group, for the enthusiasm and leadership with which he continues to mobilize the AfDB to help unleash the agricultural potential of the continent and end its food dependence on external sources. The excellent results of Dakar 2 testify to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am confident that we can count on him for the effective mobilization of the announced financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To ensure adequate follow-up of the conference, I recommend that the Summit endorse the Dakar Declaration on Food Sovereignty and Resilience and instruct the Commission to work on its implementation in collaboration with the AfDB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It would also be appropriate to integrate into the same process the follow-up of the Joint Declaration on Food Security resulting from the U.S.-Africa Summit last December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To this end, I have established a task force led by former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, which is already working with the Commission and the U.S. side on the implementation of the objectives of the Declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the short term, this involves ensuring that our countries are supplied with cereal products and fertilizers under normal market conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To this end, we could use the ATEX platform in collaboration with AFREXIMBANK to facilitate transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the medium and long term, the Washington Declaration commits us to work with the U.S. side and other partners to improve the agricultural performance of the continent in all aspects, including infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Africa we want is also an Africa that thinks for and by itself; an Africa that knows what it wants and what it is worth; an Africa fully integrated into global governance, engaging with its partners in a reinvented relational ethic based on co-constructed partnerships that respect the diversity of cultural values and civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the advocacy I have made on your behalf at the 6th Europe-Africa Summit in Brussels, at the OECD Council in Paris, at the G7 Summit in Elmau, at TICAD 8 in Tunis, at the United Nations General Assembly, at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, at the G20 Summit in Bali, and at the 2nd U.S.-Africa Summit in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At all these stages, I reaffirmed that in these times of profound changes, working together requires a new way of thinking about the world, a new way of acting among partners who respect their common values and their differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On global governance, it is clear that the reform of the Security Council has not yet seen significant progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, regarding global economic and financial governance, I am pleased to announce that the process of Africa’s accession as a full member of the G20 is well underway, following the steps I took in this regard immediately after taking office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To date, 10 of the 20 members of the Group have expressed their support for us; namely, in chronological order: the European Union, France, South Africa, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United States of America, Japan, Turkey, and Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On your behalf, I extend our warmest thanks to them for this friendly and supportive support. Africa will remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope that the other members of the Group will join this consensus momentum so that Africa’s accession is confirmed at the next G20 summit in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other unresolved challenges require continued attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am thinking of the G20 Initiative on the suspension of debt service and the partial reallocation of Special Drawing Rights. Both, meant to support our efforts for resilience and economic recovery, remain stalled. I think of the just and equitable energy transition, which allows us to exploit our available resources to meet our industrialization needs at competitive costs and ensure universal access to electricity for our countries, as over 600 million Africans remain deprived of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think of the exaggerated perception of investment risk in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my address upon taking office on February 5, 2022, right here, I said that our economies are underfunded and poorly funded because our countries continue to unjustly pay excessively high interest rates due to an inequitable investment risk assessment system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This has been confirmed by several studies, including the 2022 Report on Financing for Sustainable Development published in April 2022, which explicitly noted the severity of the Agencies towards Southern countries and their relative leniency towards industrialized countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, 18 of the 32 African countries assessed by at least one of the major agencies saw their ratings downgraded; that is 56% compared to a global average of 31%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conversely, and I quote the Report: “Developed countries, which experienced a much greater increase in their debt and economic slowdown, largely escaped downgrades, which reinforces their access to abundant and affordable market financing.” End of quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The document further notes the distrust of Rating Agencies towards the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, which was nonetheless consensually decided by the G20, the body authorized in this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several African countries thus had their ratings placed under surveillance, even before their participation in the Initiative; which contributed to worsening the perception of risk in these countries and degrading their ratings; as if the agencies positioned themselves as regulatory bodies above intergovernmental institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is why the Report recommends the adoption of “transparent methodologies so as not to undermine confidence in ratings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I remind you that this authoritative study was conducted by about sixty multilateral institutions, including the IMF, the World Bank, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and the Financial Stability Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this shows that our development efforts will not thrive as long as certain rules and practices of global economic and financial governance persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly, we have the primary responsibility to create the conditions for the development of our countries, but our fate also depends on post-war institutions and rules that do not sufficiently take into account<\/p>\n\n\n\n the needs and interests of our countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I therefore call on the member countries of the Union and the Commission to actively participate in the Bridgetown Initiative on the reform of the global financial architecture, whose 2023 agenda provides for six meetings between the IMF and World Bank meetings in April and COP 28 in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of my mandate, I would like to express my gratitude for your trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I especially thank our brother Moussa Faki Mahamat for his leadership and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I associate all the members of the Commission with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serving our continent has been a privilege and a great pride for me because I believe in a united Africa, an Africa standing tall, an Africa at work, an Africa at peace and confident in its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This motivates me to remain even more determined, at the forefront of the fight for Africa, everywhere, for everything, and all the time; because it is the responsibility bestowed upon us by the legacy of Pan-Africanism to realize the dream of the founding fathers and the aspirations of our peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wish great success to our work and to my successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Long live Africa! Long live the African Union!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 f\u00e9vrier 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs les Chefs d\u2019Etat et de gouvernement,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monsieur le Secr\u00e9taire G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l’Organisation des Nations-Unies,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, Messieurs les Ministres,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident de la Commission de l\u2019Union,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, Messieurs les Ambassadeurs et chefs de d\u00e9l\u00e9gations,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, Messieurs, Chers invit\u00e9s,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En votre nom et au mien propre, je remercie le gouvernement \u00e9thiopien pour son accueil convivial et les dispositions prises en appui \u00e0 l\u2019organisation de notre Sommet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je salue et remercie tous les coll\u00e8gues, chefs de d\u00e9l\u00e9gations et invit\u00e9s ici pr\u00e9sents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nous tenons nos assises alors que nos pays continuent de subir de plein fouet les effets combin\u00e9s du r\u00e9chauffement climatique, d\u2019une crise sanitaire in\u00e9dite et d\u2019une guerre majeure, qui plonge le monde entier dans une s\u00e9quence dangereuse et incertaine, dont personne ne peut pr\u00e9dire comment et quand elle finira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u2019y ajoutent l\u2019avanc\u00e9e du terrorisme sur le continent, la persistance de conflits anciens ou nouveaux, et la recrudescence des coups d\u2019Etat ; m\u00eame si la tenue d\u2019\u00e9lections libres et transparentes confirme l\u2019ancrage de la d\u00e9mocratie dans nombre de nos pays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Au cours de mon mandat, je me suis efforc\u00e9 \u00e0 soutenir le r\u00e8glement des diff\u00e9rends et accompagner les transitions politiques, avec l\u2019appui de la Commission, et des Communaut\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques et M\u00e9canismes r\u00e9gionaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Force est de constater que la pacification du continent reste encore un objectif \u00e0 atteindre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u2019appelle instamment \u00e0 la mise en \u0153uvre des engagements du Sommet extraordinaire de Malabo de mai 2022 ; \u00e0 savoir, rendre op\u00e9rationnelle la Force africaine en attente, cr\u00e9er une Unit\u00e9 de lutte contre le terrorisme et financer de fa\u00e7on plus cons\u00e9quente et plus pr\u00e9visible nos efforts de lutte contre ce fl\u00e9au.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cette lutte, comme je l\u2019ai indiqu\u00e9 dans mon adresse \u00e0 la 77\u00e8me Session de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations Unies, rel\u00e8ve aussi de la responsabilit\u00e9 du Conseil de S\u00e9curit\u00e9, garant du m\u00e9canisme de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 collective ; parce que l\u2019avanc\u00e9e du terrorisme en Afrique est une menace \u00e0 la paix et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 internationales. Comme il l\u2019a fait ailleurs, le Conseil doit mieux s\u2019engager dans la lutte contre le terrorisme en Afrique, avec des mandats plus robustes et un financement plus ad\u00e9quat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En tout \u00e9tat de cause, le d\u00e9fi de la paix, de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de la stabilit\u00e9 du continent nous engage \u00e0 d\u00e9poser les armes, et \u00e0 trouver des solutions pacifiques \u00e0 nos diff\u00e9rends afin de mieux nous consacrer aux t\u00e2ches de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique et social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Avec la reconfiguration g\u00e9opolitique du monde, une opportunit\u00e9 historique s\u2019offre \u00e0 nous de fermer l\u2019\u00e8re de l\u2019Afrique des probl\u00e8mes<\/em><\/strong> et ouvrir la voie de l\u2019Afrique des solutions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nous en avons tout le potentiel ; parce qu\u2019un continent de 30 millions de Km\u00b2, plus d\u2019un milliard trois cents millions d\u2019habitants, dot\u00e9 en abondance de toutes sortes de ressources, ne peut \u00eatre condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 rester \u00e0 la traine du monde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019\u00e9mergence de l\u2019Afrique est \u00e0 notre port\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mais pour y arriver, nous devons accorder plus de temps \u00e0 l\u2019agenda pour le d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique et social du continent, que nous avons actualis\u00e9 cette ann\u00e9e avec la tenue des Sommets sur : <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00d8 l\u2019industrialisation et la diversification \u00e9conomique de l\u2019Afrique ; \u00d8 l\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration de la mise en \u0153uvre de la ZLECAf ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00d8 la masculinit\u00e9 positive, contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles ; \u00d8l\u2019agriculture et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00d8enfin le financement des infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ces th\u00e9matiques rappellent les urgences auxquelles nous devons nous attaquer afin de r\u00e9aliser l\u2019Afrique que nous voulons pour nous-m\u00eames, pour nos enfants et pour les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En raison de la persistance des violences faites aux femmes et aux filles, et de notre grand retard en mati\u00e8re d\u2019infrastructures, j\u2019appelle l\u2019Union \u00e0 prendre des d\u00e9cisions urgentes pour la mise en \u0153uvre des conclusions des rencontres de Dakar sur ces deux th\u00e9matiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u2019agissant de la 2\u00e8meConf\u00e9rence de Dakar sur l\u2019agriculture et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire (Dakar 2), co organis\u00e9e par le S\u00e9n\u00e9gal et la BAD du 25 au 27 janvier dernier, sous le th\u00e8me “Nourrir l\u2019Afrique, souverainet\u00e9 alimentaire et r\u00e9silience”<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong> la participation record de haut niveau en a fait un sommet orient\u00e9 vers l\u2019action, pour une l\u2019Afrique qui se donne enfin les moyens de se nourrir par elle-m\u00eame et contribuer \u00e0 nourrir le monde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ainsi, sur la base de leurs programmes prioritaires, plusieurs pays ont sign\u00e9 avec les partenaires bilat\u00e9raux et multilat\u00e9raux des Compacts visant \u00e0 stimuler la production, la transformation et le commerce agricoles, pour un montant total de 36<\/strong>milliards de dollars annonc\u00e9s, dont 10 milliards<\/strong> de la BAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J’exprime notre gratitude \u00e0 tous nos partenaires bilat\u00e9raux et multilat\u00e9raux pour leurs contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je remercie vivement notre fr\u00e8re Akinwumi Adesina<\/strong>, Pr\u00e9sident du Groupe de la BAD, pour l\u2019enthousiasme et le leadership avec lesquels il continue de mobiliser la BAD pour aider \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer le potentiel agricole du continent et mettre fin \u00e0 sa d\u00e9pendance alimentaire vis-\u00e0-vis de l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur. Les excellents r\u00e9sultats de Dakar 2 en t\u00e9moignent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je suis s\u00fbr que nous pouvons compter sur lui pour la mobilisation effective des financements annonc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afin d\u2019assurer le suivi ad\u00e9quat de la conf\u00e9rence, je recommande que le Sommet endosse la D\u00e9claration de Dakar sur la souverainet\u00e9 alimentaire et la r\u00e9silience<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong> et instruise la Commission de travailler \u00e0 sa mise en \u0153uvre en collaboration avec la BAD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Il serait tout aussi indiqu\u00e9 d\u2019int\u00e9grer dans le m\u00eame processus le suivi de la D\u00e9claration conjointe sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire<\/em><\/strong> issue du Sommet Etats-Unis -Afrique de d\u00e9cembre dernier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A cette fin, j\u2019ai mis en place une task force<\/em> conduite par l\u2019ancien Premier Ministre Hailemariam Desalegn<\/strong> qui travaille d\u00e9j\u00e0 avec la Commission et la partie am\u00e9ricaine sur la mise en \u0153uvre des objectifs de la D\u00e9claration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Il s\u2019agit, \u00e0 court terme, d\u2019assurer \u00e0 nos pays l\u2019approvisionnement en produits c\u00e9r\u00e9aliers et en fertilisants, aux conditions normales du march\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A cet effet, nous pourrions utiliser la plateforme ATEX en collaboration avec AFREXIMBANK afin de faciliter les transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A moyen et long termes, la D\u00e9claration de Washington nous engage \u00e0 travailler avec la partie am\u00e9ricaine et d\u2019autres partenaires, pour am\u00e9liorer les performances agricoles du continent dans tous les aspects, y compris les infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019Afrique que nous voulons, c\u2019est aussi une Afrique qui r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit par et pour elle-m\u00eame<\/strong> ; une Afrique qui sait ce qu\u2019elle veut<\/strong> et ce qu\u2019elle vaut<\/strong> ; une Afrique pleinement int\u00e9gr\u00e9e dans la gouvernance mondiale, et qui s\u2019engage avec ses partenaires dans une \u00e9thique relationnelle r\u00e9invent\u00e9e, fond\u00e9e sur des partenariats co-construits et respectueux de la diversit\u00e9 des valeurs de cultures et de civilisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u2019est le plaidoyer que j\u2019ai port\u00e9 en votre nom au 6\u00e8me Sommet Europe-Afrique de Bruxelles, au Conseil de l\u2019OCDE \u00e0 Paris, au Sommet du G7 d\u2019Elmau, \u00e0 la TICAD 8 de Tunis, \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations Unies, \u00e0 la COP 27 de Sharm El Sheikh, au Sommet du G20 de Bali et au 2\u00e8me Sommet Etats-Unis-Afrique \u00e0 Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A toutes ces \u00e9tapes, j\u2019ai r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 qu\u2019en ces temps de mutations profondes, travailler ensemble requiert une autre fa\u00e7on de penser le monde, une autre fa\u00e7on d\u2019agir entre partenaires respectueux de leurs valeurs communes et de leurs diff\u00e9rences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sur la gouvernance mondiale, il est clair que la r\u00e9forme du Conseil de S\u00e9curit\u00e9 ne connait pas encore d\u2019\u00e9volution significative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Par contre, s\u2019agissant de la gouvernance \u00e9conomique et financi\u00e8re mondiale, je suis heureux d\u2019annoncer que le processus d\u2019adh\u00e9sion de l\u2019Afrique comme membre de plein droit du G20 est en bonne voie, suite aux d\u00e9marches que j\u2019ai effectu\u00e9es dans ce sens aussit\u00f4t apr\u00e8s ma prise de fonction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A ce jour, 10 <\/strong>des 20<\/strong> membres du Groupe nous ont exprim\u00e9 leur soutien ; notamment et dans l\u2019ordre chronologique : l\u2019Union Europ\u00e9enne, la France, l\u2019Afrique du Sud<\/strong>, la Chine, la Russie, l\u2019Arabie Saoudite<\/strong>, les Etats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique<\/strong>, le Japon,<\/strong>la Turquie et la Grande Bretagne.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n En votre nom, je leur renouvelle nos chaleureux remerciements pour ce soutien amical et solidaire. L\u2019Afrique s\u2019en souviendra.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u2019esp\u00e8re que les autres membres du Groupe rejoindront cet \u00e9lan consensuel pour que l\u2019adh\u00e9sion de l\u2019Afrique soit act\u00e9e au prochain sommet du G20 en Inde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u2019autres d\u00e9fis non encore r\u00e9solus demandent une prise en charge continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je pense \u00e0 l\u2019Initiative du G20 sur la suspension du service de la dette et \u00e0 la r\u00e9allocation partielle des Droits de Tirage sp\u00e9ciaux.<\/strong> L\u2019une et l\u2019autre, cens\u00e9es accompagner nos efforts de r\u00e9silience et de relance \u00e9conomique, restent encore dans l\u2019impasse. Je pense \u00e0 la transition \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique juste et \u00e9quitable<\/strong>, qui nous permet d\u2019exploiter nos ressources disponibles, pour satisfaire nos besoins d\u2019industrialisation \u00e0 des co\u00fbts comp\u00e9titifs et assurer \u00e0 nos pays l\u2019acc\u00e8s universel \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 dont plus de 600 millions<\/strong> d\u2019africains restent encore priv\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je pense \u00e0 la perception exag\u00e9r\u00e9e du risque d\u2019investissement en Afrique.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dans mon adresse de prise de fonction du 5 f\u00e9vrier 2022 ici m\u00eame, je disais que nos \u00e9conomies sont sous financ\u00e9es et mal financ\u00e9es<\/strong>, parce que nos pays continuent de payer de fa\u00e7on injuste des taux d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat trop \u00e9lev\u00e9s, \u00e0 cause d\u2019un syst\u00e8me in\u00e9quitable d\u2019\u00e9valuation du risque d\u2019investissement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9 par plusieurs \u00e9tudes, dont le Rapport 2022 sur le financement du d\u00e9veloppement durable <\/em><\/strong>publi\u00e9 en avril 2022, qui a relev\u00e9 en termes explicites la s\u00e9v\u00e9rit\u00e9 des Agences vis-\u00e0-vis des pays du Sud et leur relative indulgence \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des pays industrialis\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ainsi, en pleine pand\u00e9mie en 2020, 18 des 32 pays africains<\/strong> \u00e9valu\u00e9s par au moins une des grandes agences ont vu leur notation d\u00e9grad\u00e9e ; soit 56%<\/strong> contre une moyenne mondiale de 31%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A l\u2019inverse, et je cite le Rapport<\/u><\/strong> : \u00ab Les pays d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s, qui ont connu une augmentation de leur dette et un ralentissement \u00e9conomique beaucoup plus important, ont largement \u00e9chapp\u00e9 aux d\u00e9gradations, ce qui renforce leur acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un financement de march\u00e9 abondant et abordable \u00bb.<\/em><\/strong>fin de citation<\/u><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Le document rel\u00e8ve en outre la d\u00e9fiance des Agences de notation vis-\u00e0-vis de l\u2019Initiative de suspension du service de la dette, pourtant d\u00e9cid\u00e9e de fa\u00e7on consensuelle par le G20, instance habilit\u00e9e en la mati\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plusieurs pays africains ont ainsi vu leur notation mise sous surveillance, avant m\u00eame leur participation \u00e0 l\u2019Initiative ; ce qui a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 aggraver la perception du risque dans ces pays et \u00e0 d\u00e9grader leur notation ; comme si les agences s\u2019\u00e9rigeaient en instance de r\u00e9gulation au-dessus des Institutions intergouvernementales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u2019est pourquoi le Rapport recommande l\u2019adoption de \u00ab m\u00e9thodologies transparentes afin de ne pas miner la confiance dans les notations \u00bb<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Je rappelle que cette \u00e9tude qui fait autorit\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par une soixantaine d\u2019institutions multilat\u00e9rales, dont le FMI, la Banque mondiale, le Comit\u00e9 de B\u00e2le sur la supervision bancaire, l\u2019Association internationale des r\u00e9gulateurs de l\u2019assurance et le Conseil de stabilit\u00e9 financi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tout cela montre que nos efforts de d\u00e9veloppement ne pourront prosp\u00e9rer tant que perdurent certaines r\u00e8gles et pratiques de la gouvernance \u00e9conomique et financi\u00e8re mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certes, nous avons la responsabilit\u00e9 premi\u00e8re de cr\u00e9er les conditions de d\u00e9veloppement de nos pays, mais notre sort d\u00e9pend aussi d\u2019institutions et r\u00e8gles d\u2019apr\u00e8s-guerre qui ne prennent pas suffisamment en compte les besoins et int\u00e9r\u00eats de nos pays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u2019appelle, par cons\u00e9quent, les pays membres de l\u2019Union et la Commission \u00e0 participer activement \u00e0 l\u2019Initiative de Bridgetown sur la r\u00e9forme de l\u2019architecture financi\u00e8re mondiale, dont l\u2019agenda 2023 pr\u00e9voit six rendez-vous entre les r\u00e9unions du FMI et de la Banque mondiale en avril, et la COP 28 en d\u00e9cembre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Au terme de mon mandat, je voudrais vous exprimer toute ma gratitude pour votre confiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je remercie particuli\u00e8rement notre fr\u00e8re Moussa Faki Mahamat pour son leadership et son soutien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u2019y associe l\u2019ensemble des membres de la Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Servir notre continent a \u00e9t\u00e9 pour moi un privil\u00e8ge et une grande fiert\u00e9, parce que je crois en une Afrique unie, une Afrique debout, une Afrique au travail, une Afrique en paix et confiante en son avenir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cela me d\u00e9termine \u00e0 rester encore plus motiv\u00e9, au front du combat pour l\u2019Afrique, partout, pour tout et tout le temps<\/strong> ; parce que c\u2019est la responsabilit\u00e9 que nous conf\u00e8re l\u2019h\u00e9ritage du panafricanisme, pour r\u00e9aliser le r\u00eave des p\u00e8res fondateurs et les aspirations de nos peuples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je souhaite plein succ\u00e8s \u00e0 nos travaux et \u00e0 mon successeur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vive l\u2019Afrique ! Vive l\u2019Union Africaine !<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Je vous remercie.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18 February 2023 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of State and Government, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers, Mr. President of the Commission of\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,8,46],"tags":[54,51,50],"msf_theme":[69,67],"msf_place":[82],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-publications","category-publications","category-speeches","tag-climateresilience","tag-promotiondemocracy","tag-sustainabledevelopment","msf_theme-development","msf_theme-peace","msf_place-addis-ababa-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"msf_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msf_theme?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"msf_place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mackysallfoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msf_place?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n\n\n\n36e Session ordinaire de la Conf\u00e9rence des Chefs d\u2019Etat et de Gouvernement de l\u2019Union Africaine<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n