06/20/2026
That’s right African and Caribbean countries let’s get our reparations 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
African and Caribbean nations on Friday, June 19, 2026 demanded formal apologies from countries that benefited from transatlantic slavery, as well as debt relief and financial compensation, part of an increasingly forceful push for Reparations.
The demands were part of a 19-point reparations plan endorsed at the end of a three-day conference in Ghana, whose U.N. resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity" was approved in March despite resistance from Europe and the United States, countries which have a legacy in the sprawling human trafficking system that saw millions forcibly taken from their homelands.
The plan was adopted by the African Union and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on Reparatory Justice. It does not mention which specific countries should apologise.
It calls for the establishment of a Global Reparations Fund, comprehensive debt relief and cancellation for affected countries and reforms to international financial institutions to ensure fairer representation for nations in the Global South.
It also calls for the restitution of looted cultural property and ancestral remains, climate justice financing and steps to address the specific brutalities inflicted on African women and girls during slavery.
And it urges African countries to grant the right of return and citizenship pathways for diaspora Africans while committing to preserving the coastal forts and castles as memorials.
The U.N. resolution in March was passed with 123 votes in favour, but the United States, Israel and 52 other countries —including European Union members and Britain — either opposed or abstained.
SOURCE: https://www.aol.com/articles/african-caribbean-states-back-slavery-192554000.html
