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Thank you Abena for saying what so many of us are feeling.

Great to see one of our council members and co chair of APPG for Africa speaking passionately about the famine in Sudan

The attention paid to the conflict in Sudan does not match the enormity of the suffering there. As Chair @APPGAfrica, thank you, Lyn Brown 🌹, for securing this question. I asked the Minister what the UK was doing to monitor the arms embargo and stem the flow of arms into Sudan.

We’ve kicked off the APPG for Africa roundtable ‘Shifting from crisis response to resilience-building in the Horn of Africa’. Thank you to the APPG co-chairs Lord Jonny Oates & Chi Onwurah 💙 for facilitating this important conversation.

Pleasure meeting with Royal African Society CEO/Driector Janet Rogan , & her colleagues Nwora Emenike & Hetty Bailey-Morgan this morning during the presentation of our  "Achieving More Sustainable Responses to Crises in the Horn of Africa." policy brief to members of the APPG for Africa

This morning, we had the privilege of presenting "Shifting from crisis response to resilience-building in the Horn of Africa" policy brief to the members of the UK All Africa Parliamentary Group (APPG). Our sincere gratitude to the co-chairs of the APPG, Lord Jonny Oates &

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We’ve kicked off the APPG for Africa IGM with the minister for Africa

We’re going to take time to listen to hear from a wide range of voices to understand what our African partners need. It’s important that we enable voices of African states to be invoiced in international decision making.

On Security and conflict reduction: There’s a dividend for peace that’s not being reached. We now have a Sudan envoy, building up the capability to secure a ceasefire process but the immediate action is to secure access to humanitarian aid.

In the APPG for Africa IGM Paul Boateng Learned 19 years ago, during his time as envoy the close link between the extractive industries and conflict and the he close link between lack of opportunities for young people and conflict.

The Minister for Africa Collins of Highbury We shouldn’t underestimate how change can be affected. It’ll come about through social economic empowerment and an active civil society.

Q. How we counter the role of china in Africa Collins of Highbury Debt restructuring is linked to our strategy on china. What we can do is be more effective in the collaboration with others for example building a deep sea port in the DRC APPG for Africa

Thank you to the newly formed APPG for Africa and the Co chairs Chi Onwurah 💙 and Lord Jonny Oates for hosting today’s IGM.

The IGM closed with the RAS CEO janet rogan giving us an overview of the societies 5 year plan for promoting the values & culture of Africans to the UK