African, European leaders meet to ‘reset’ relationship
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (centre), next to DRC’s President and African Union Chair Felix Tshisekedi (left), makes a speech as he attends the opening session of the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit in Istanbul on December 18, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
African leaders will meet their European counterparts at a summit to redefine their relationship, even as the continent feels the pain of recent negative policies from Europe.
The meeting, planned for February, will come weeks before the US-Africa summit set to be hosted by US President Joe Biden, and just months after the Forum on China–Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) summit that was held in Senegal in November.
