A joint report, addressing Africa's ambitions to be more effective and inclusive on the global stage, was launched by Namibia's Vice President at Tsumeb.

The Namibia-Amani Africa High-Level Panel of Experts on Africa and the Reform of Multilateral Systems report comes ahead of next month's United Nations Summit for the Future. 

The report looks into the need to have a reformed multilateral system that paves the way for solutions to common global challenges and enhanced cooperation to achieve agreed sustainable development goals. 

"Accordingly, the report examines the resources and manifestation of the historical injustice Africa suffered in the multilateral system, as it was designed and operated thus far, including within the UN system, notably the non-representation and the under-representation of Africa in the permanent and non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council, and outlines how this has dealt a legitimate blow that can no longer be maintained without redress," said Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.

The report also projects the need for various sectors to empower African people to fight poverty.

"The report also highlighted and provided a useful proposal on the need for an equitable and fair global financial and economic architecture and how to achieve robust cooperation to overcome the magnitude and interconnectedness of various challenges affecting the globe, such as climate change and cyber security, and the necessity for the global community to organise the system in a way that caters for the needs and interests of various sectors of society, notably women, youth, and, of course, the future generation."

Namibia is serving as a co-facilitator with Germany to establish the report in preparation for the Summit for the Future 2024, which is set to take place in New York on 22 and 23 September.