Very good read! I was also puzzled at why diplomats who have little travel issues were first to get the passports.
I live in South Africa, and with the ruling party and president seeing their eyes on potentially making the former AU chair our next potential president; I've been quite critical of her capabilities.
I have largely thought of the AU passport as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's vanity project. There's lots of structural issues which you mention, that make the practicality of the passport difficult, and than none have been dealt with says a lot.
My opinion is that ECOWAS have done better in managing their region than the AU has in intervening. The recent Gambian situation being a good example. I can't talk much about SADC as we have Swaziland and Zimbabwe that are violating human rights with SA and other members not intervening much.
Your solution of adopting ECOWAS and/or other frameworks is more feasible.
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Very good read! I was also puzzled at why diplomats who have little travel issues were first to get the passports.
I live in South Africa, and with the ruling party and president seeing their eyes on potentially making the former AU chair our next potential president; I've been quite critical of her capabilities.
I have largely thought of the AU passport as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's vanity project. There's lots of structural issues which you mention, that make the practicality of the passport difficult, and than none have been dealt with says a lot.
My opinion is that ECOWAS have done better in managing their region than the AU has in intervening. The recent Gambian situation being a good example. I can't talk much about SADC as we have Swaziland and Zimbabwe that are violating human rights with SA and other members not intervening much.
Your solution of adopting ECOWAS and/or other frameworks is more feasible.