Heads of State and Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), the CARI­COM Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, and oth­er re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives will join their African coun­ter­parts in Ad­dis Aba­ba, Ethiopia, this week­end for the Sec­ond Africa-CARI­COM Sum­mit.

Con­vened on the third CARI­COM-Africa Day, un­der the theme “Transcon­ti­nen­tal Part­ner­ship in Pur­suit of Repara­to­ry Jus­tice for Africans and Peo­ple of African De­scent through Repa­ra­tions”, the Sum­mit aligns with the prin­ci­ples of the AU-CARI­COM Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) on strength­en­ing en­gage­ment and fos­ter­ing link­ages be­tween CARI­COM and Africa.

The Sum­mit, an­chored at the African Union Com­mis­sion’s Head­quar­ters, is ex­pect­ed to wel­come the pres­i­dents of the World Bank and In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund, and Heads of the African and Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Banks, as well as the African Ex­port-Im­port Bank (Afrex­im­bank).