Posted On November 22, 2017
1. Wide of conference hall
2. Wide of Libya's Colonel Moammar Ghadafi talking to media
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Colonel Moammar Ghadafi, Libyan leader:
"There is no one for or against, everyone cares about the African unity and it will have a normal delivery. There is no one against the unity, there is no African who says 'I am against the unity of Africa and against the unity government, the united states of Africa', this has been decided. And they signed it and declared in all the conferences. But the talk is about the writing of that thing to become practical and to be successful."
4. Medium of Ghadafi walking away
5. High angle of delegates standing in lobby of conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Senegalese Foreign Minister:
"Senegal has signed since 1960 - because we've been in our constitution since 1958 - that we are ready to abandon partially or totally our sovereignty to join a unity government in Africa. So we have no problem. My president is here with his pen ready to sign so we'll see if the paper will be presented to us to ask for a signature but we are ready."
7. Medium of African flags
STORYLINE:
Speaking at the sidelines of the 53-member African Union summit in Accra, on Monday, Libya's Colonel Moammar Ghadafi said that no African was against an African unity government.
The three-day summit in Ghana's capital is being attended by more than 30 heads of state, including the presidents of Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The official topic of debate is a long-discussed, but elusive idea for a pan-African government.
"There is no one against the unity, there is no African who says 'I am against the unity of Africa and against the unity government, the united states of Africa', this has been decided," Ghadafi said.
"They signed it and declared in all the conferences. But the talk is about the writing of that thing to become practical and to be successful," Ghadafi added.
Senegal's Foreign Minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, said that his country was fully behind the idea of a unity government.
"We are ready to abandon partially or totally a sovereignty to join a unity government in Africa," Gadio said.
"My president is here with his pen ready to sign so we'll see if the paper will be presented to us to ask for a signature but we are ready," he added.
Although the idea of a borderless, continent-wide entity has been accepted by most African countries, it has remained no more than a slogan due to disputes on how to proceed.
Numerous documents have been adopted calling for a pan-African body over the years, but many individual states have failed to ratify them.
Ghanaian authorities banned protests until the final day of the three-day summit on Tuesday, and two-thousand police fanned out across the West African capital.
As well as the issue of a unity government, the summit will also address immediate crises, such as conflicts in Sudan, Somalia and Chad, along with political turmoil in Zimbabwe.