Africa: AU-MONITOR Mobilisations a success

Fahamu recently established a website associated with Pambazuka News to enable civil society organisations to monitor and respond to events during the African Union summit in Khartoum (see http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/). The site has information about the high profile meetings on the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa and the mobilisations against the threat of Sudan taking up the position as head of the AU. A successful civil society mobilisation was organised through this initiative. The following are a selection of the responses received from activists:

Congrats to the team that worked tirelessly to see this through [this]. You have saved Africa from another embarrassment. We must use these little successes to derive new energies for larger battles ahead.
Achim Chiaji

I must say I'm very inspired by your coverage of the AU summit and for keeping us informed as a civil society.
Mary Nzioka

Congratulations to you all for the good work and the succes in Sudan. However we need to keep mobilized for the AU to be managed by heads of States who observe the principles of the AU constitution. We also need to help solve the conflicts of power that at times oppose the chair of the commission of the AU and the president of the AU. I hope we will have opportunities to discuss this and the strategies to adress it.
Gabriel Baglo

This is great news! I guess we need to learn to be vigilant from now on - and to anticipate the things that we want to avoid well before they happen, so we can act accordingly. You have done well in providing leadership here. Now can we turn to the East African leaders and get to understand what they were on about - and let them know that we just do not approve? Let us ponder this as we heave a sigh of relief.
Ezra Mbogori

Thank you so much for all the work and the updates. This is very pleasing news. I think we can as civics push even for more and better changes. It is possible.
Bertha Chiroro

Thank you so much for the good news. As civil society its an achievement but we need to keep on fighting to achieve other goals as well.
Brenda Mukutu