U.N.: Africa Calls for Reparations for Slavery

The African Group, a significant entity within the United Nations and representing the collective interests of 54 African Union Member States at the UN, is calling for reparations for slavery, the slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, apartheid, genocides, and past tragedies and suffering inflicted on the African people by Europe and the Western world. While addressing a Forum of the United Nations, Celia Kafureka Nabeta, the Minister Counsellor Permanent Mission of Uganda to the UN in New York, said the African group, in line with the African Union, stresses the need to address the untold stories and sufferings inflicted on millions of African men, women, and children as a result of past tragedies, with the aim to restore the dignity, integrity, and healing of all those who suffered and continue to suffer from the impact of these tragedies.  Ms. Nabeta said the people of African descent in various countries have for decades called for accountability and redress of the harms suffered due to enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and continuing successive racial discriminatory policies, systems, and practices. “Regrettably, there have been no comprehensive reparations to date for all the harms suffered, as called for in the Durban...