{"id":3621,"date":"2019-07-08T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"finance-own-development-au-member-states-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/08\/finance-own-development-au-member-states-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Own Development, AU Member States Urged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Kuda Mugari in NIAMEY, Niger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The African\nUnion (AU) has underscored the need for its member states to ensure that the\ncontinent plays a significant role in world affairs by employing the right\nstrategies to finance its own development and reduce aid dependency through the\nestablishment of continental financial institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was\nsaid by AU commissioner for economic affairs Professor Victor Harrison during\nthe 12th Extraordinary Session of the AU Assembly yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For too\nlong, the AU body has been criticized for being toothless in grinding African\nissues since it depends on donor funding from Western countries and other well-wishers\nwho are pushing their own agendas. Prof Harrison said in order for the\ncontinent to achieve its Vision 2063, it must become a strong, united,\nresilient and influential global player, adding that the establishment of AU\nfinancial institutions \u2014 now at advantaged stage \u2014 is the only instrument in\nfighting the dependency syndrome. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/finance-own-development-au-member-states-urged\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kuda Mugari in NIAMEY, Niger The African Union (AU) has underscored the need for its member states to ensure that the continent plays a significant role in world affairs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}