ONE AFRICA - Sign the petition: Tell US State Department that North Africa is Africa too!

Tell US State Department that North Africa is Africa too! Sign the Petition!

ONE AFRICA CAMPAIGN

The United African Organization has launched a petition on Change.org, lobbying the U.S. Department of State to include the whole African continent under its Bureau of African Affairs. 

Why? Because the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, led by Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, currently excludes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara from its agenda. 

Instead, the aforementioned countries are grouped with the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, together with Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others. 

This distinction is based on false labels and outdated racist categorization with no empirical validity. The artificial distinction between North Africa and the rest of Africa could be perceived as a balkanization scheme, which negatively impacts US foreign policy relations throughout the entire continent of Africa.

North Africa is geographically and historically part of the African continent, and all fifty-three (53) independent African states, including North African countries, are represented in the African Union (AU).

We strongly believe that it would be far more productive for the State Department to engage with the entire continent of Africa, including North Africa, under its Bureau of African Affairs.

We are one Africa, from the Cape to Cairo, indivisible and bound together! Therefore, no square inch of African land should be excluded from African affairs.

Join the UAO in petitioning the U.S. Department of State to restructure its diplomatic bureaus so as to include the entire continent of Africa under its Bureau of African Affairs!

Read and sign the petition!