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Africa: finally, we become reasonable within the NEPAD

By on June 17, 2010
In eight years of existence, the New Partnership for the development of Africa (NEPAD) has, up to now, no realisation to its credit.

The President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has once said: “Every leader has its own costly NEPAD, so luxurious and expensive, but without any outcome”.
That had urged him to stand back with regard to this institution. But things seem to evolve positively with the new executive secretary who, according to President Wade, is the only one to have understood what all NEPAD is about. He is convinced of the commitment and the understanding of the new executive secretary, Mister Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, from Niger. “Now, we become reasonable. I will resume again servicing the NEPAD institution with Mister Mayaki”. President Wade has declared.
Mister Mayaki asked to be judged on the results reached, and after all, “a good driver always finds the rightful way by his behavior”, he said. And again that is what was missing in the NEPAD vision, a structure created in 2001 by the former African Unity Organisation (OUA).
Conceived to facilitate the economic integration of the African continent, the new partnership for the development of Africa  got stuck in the mud because of the complexity of the programs and the projects proposed by some and by the others, without any coordination, thus  «It became a lumber room “, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki has regretted.
The financiers were called to contribute to its(NEPAD) rehabilitation, but had demanded a list of the prioritised projects and serious studies on their utility, but in vain. The African Development Bank (BAD) was then called to help to define a medium-term strategy (2015), as well as a long-term vision (2030).

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