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Mombasa
Conference Produces an African Leadership Council and Code
of Conduct
We at
the Council for a Community of Democracies are most impressed
with the initiative displayed at the Mombassa Conference,
where current and former African leaders came together, at
the invitation of Professor Robert I. Rotberg of Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government, to launch the African
Leadership Council. The African Leadership Council, chaired
by the former President of Botswana Sir Ketumile Masire, has
developed a Code of African Leadership, a document of 22 points
that accentuates the leadership qualities requisite for democratic
governance (respect of human rights and the rule of law, freedom
of religion, of the press, and of assembly). The new Council
issued the Mombassa Declaration, which calls for good governance
and democratic reform continent-wide. Also issued was a Capacity
Building Curriculum for Elected African Leaders, to be used
as the basis of a training program that teaches the principals
of effective leadership and good governance. Below we share
with you the related documents, all of which call for an adherence
of leaders to conduct crucial to the overall goal of strong
democracies in Africa.
Press
Statement
African
Leadership Council Mission
Code
of African Leadership Council
Mombassa
Declaration
Signatories
to the Mombassa Declaration
Capacity
Building Curriculum
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