History will be made on 7 September 2021, when the inaugural CARICOM-Africa Summit is convened.
A release from the CARICOM Secretariat yesterday said that Kenya will host the virtual event under the theme ‘Unity Across Continents and Oceans: Opportunities for Deepening Integration’. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya, will chair the Summit.
Plans for Kenya to host a CARICOM and Africa Summit in 2020 had to be deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants at the event will include Heads of State and Govern-ment of the Caribbean Community and the African Union, Chairs of CARICOM and the African Union Commission and the Africa Regional Economic Communities (RECs).
The release said that it is anticipated that the deliberations will institutionalise CARICOM-African Union collaboration.
The release said that the African Union generously agreed to invite CARICOM to be part of the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) for the sourcing of COVID-19 vaccines which allowed the Community to benefit from bulk purchasing. The vaccines began arriving in CARICOM last month.
