Ecological and health challenges in Africa: Brazzaville Foundation dialogues with the diaspora

Every year since 2013 in Bordeaux, the Journées Nationales des Diasporas et de l'Afrique (JNDA), initiated by the Club des Bâtisseurs, transcend divides of all kinds to bring together thousands of participants around personalities from Africa and the diaspora in France.

The aim of this annual meeting is to develop and highlight economic, social, political, cultural and artistic initiatives, and to build bridges between Africa and Europe.

Invited for the first time, the Brazzaville Foundation was represented by Richard Amalvy, Chief Executive, who intervened in the debate on the ecological challenges in Africa, and their solutions.

First of all, he presented the problematic linked to the preservation of the Congo Basin in a context of climate emergency: "If we all agree to preserve what is becoming the first lung of the planet, we cannot imagine that the industrialised countries ask Africa to put the Congo Basin under a bell to continue to pollute, and in fact prohibit the future development and well-being of the indigenous populations. We must think of a model of development and green and blue growth that meets the environmental criteria of the Paris agreements, while offering a prosperous future to Africa. He presented the objectives of the Congo Basin Blue Fund. He presented the objectives of the African initiative, an African initiative carried by sixteen countries, with the support of the Kingdom of Morocco.

He concluded this session with a pitch on theLomé Initiative He concluded this session with a pitch on the Lomé Initiative against medicines that kill, which is being carried out by the six African signatory countries. The Chief Executive explained the methodology of the national plans to fight against falsified and substandard medicines under this initiative. This intervention allowed him to invite members of the diaspora to join the solutions proposed by the partners of these two programmes.