By Ulises Canales, Prensa Latina,
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt : At least 44 heads of State and Government have arrived in this city in the last few hours, to discuss as of Monday controversial affairs, but indispensable for Africa’s integral development.
After a warm Sunday, governors started bilateral meetings as a preliminary phase of two days of debates.
Sources close to the 11th Summit of the African Summit (AU) told Prensa Latina that, inevitably, the crisis in Zimbabwe emerges as the most discussed issue in the gathering, although, asserted, the formal agenda will be respected.
The central topic is “Meeting the Millennium Development Goals on Water and Sanitation,” but undoubtedly the event will review the situation in the Sudanese region of Darfur, the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and between the latter and Djibouti, and options to counteract the current world food crisis and the rise in fuel prices.
Ethiopia Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told Prensa Latina that unity, the situation of water, and other health problems affecting Africa will be discussed in the meeting.
Also on the list is judiciary and financial aspects, human rights, security and peace, as well as the proposal to carry out a single annual AU summit in Addis Ababa, to extend the mandate of the president of the institution assembly two years more, the conversion of the Executive Council in Council of ministers, and others.