Ethiopian Journal

Rising from their meeting in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, African university students resolved that they would meet regularly in an effort to promote relations between African students' organizations. 

The meeting, organized by the General Union of Libyan Students and Nasser University and sponsored by the Libyan Liaison Office of revolutionary committees, emphasized in its final communiqué that the students would also examine the merits of the continent's unity in their deliberations.

They adopted the Libyan leader's (Kadhafi's) statement at the opening of the meeting on 13 March as a working document for achieving African unity.

The communiqué said "the future of the African continent will be handled by leaders of African youth and students who represent the backbone of the future.

"We stress the need to create a popular movement of African young students in order to anchor direct democracy in Africa," the students said, adding that they would set up the Jamahirian movement in Africa to serve the purpose.

The meeting, held from 12-18 March, was attended by some 200 students from 50 universities in the Central African Republic, Senegal, Gambia, Chad, Sierra Leone, Benin, Cameroon, South Africa, Djibouti, Kenya, Namibia, Madagascar, Lesotho, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Libya. (Afriquejet)