Pan Africa School 2063 honors Mohamed Fayek

CAIRO - 24 December 2018: The Government-sponsored Pan-Africa School 2063 honored Sunday the African Relations Engineer Mohamed Fayek within the framework of the activities of the school implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The event was an open meeting between the school's board and Fayek, the Chairman of the National Council for Human Rights and former Minister of Information, in cooperation with the Pan-African Youth Union and in partnership with the African Graduate School at the Civic Education Center in El Gezira. The event entitled "Fayek and the African Revolutions."

Mr. Hassan Ghazali, General Coordinator and Founder of the African Youth Bureau, greeted, at the beginning of the open meeting, Minister Mohamed Fayek, Distinguished Personality with a long history: he is one of the most important figures supporting African liberation movements, he has worked as an Egyptian-African Relations Engineer and was in charge of African affairs dossier since July Revolution and until his resignation in 1971. He conceived and promoted the idea of creating the African Organization, he also headed the Bureau of the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and worked as his legal adviser for African and Asian affairs. He has also held the position of vice-president of the Egyptian Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity. He has a long history full of hard work and achievements.


The Government-sponsored Pan-Africa School 2063 honored Sunday the African Relations Engineer Mohamed Fayek - Press photo

Minister Mohamed Fayek, Chairman of the National Council for Human Rights and former Minister of Information, said at the beginning of his speech that he was very pleased to meet the Pan Africa Students 2063. He welcomed the presence of these promising young people who reassured him of the future of the African continent. They are the ones who will continue his journey. He added that his relationship with Gamal Abdel Nasser began in 1951 when he was a student at the Military Academy where Gamal Abdel Nasser had taught. It was at the Military Academy where his relationship with Gamal Abdel Nasser began. He was the youngest to hold the post of Minister and served as the President's Bureau Director, then as his legal adviser for African and Asian Affairs and then as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Chairman of the National Council for Human Rights, in his speech, coinciding with the 62nd National Day of Port Said Governorate and the anniversary of the Egyptian Will victory over tripartite aggression against Egypt, said that the main cause of tripartite aggression was the assistance granted to Algeria by Egypt, since Egypt had had to stay within a limited framework and when it had broken that limit, tripartite aggression came in retaliation for that action! He stressed that the failure of the tripartite aggression against Egypt had announced the defeat of the British empire. The era of traditional colonialism was over, and a new type of colonialism began by occupying the economy, creating problems and other new types of colonialism appeared. He also indicated that the phase that followed the period of the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was a very different phase, as it was a new type of colonialism. The concerns of African countries were focused on independence and after independence, achieving development became the most important goal to be attained. Therefore, we need to restore the African spirit by changing its concept in order to achieve real development in Africa.

Mr. Fayek also emphasized in his speech that we were a distinguished African country and that even our geography and our Constitution provided for it, as well as the Nile, on which we depend. Egypt is the gift of the Nile, but also the Nile is the gift of Africa where the three circles: Arab, African and Islamic intersect. Minister Fayek said: "Egypt is an African country and I feel that all Egyptians are aware of the importance of Africa, but something is missing: we live in a time where we see Africa otherwise, but we are, in fact, Africa. Africa must live in our heart like our own country lives in our heart. "


The Government-sponsored Pan-Africa School 2063 honored Sunday the African Relations Engineer Mohamed Fayek - Press photo

At the end of the meeting, Ms. Dina Fouad, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry and Head of the Central Administration of Parliament and Civic Education, presented the honorary shield of the Ministry of Youth and Sports to Minister Mohamed Fayek, Chairman of the National Council for Human Rights and former Minister of Information, in recognition of his outstanding role and efforts throughout the years of Egypt's history. He is one of the most important figures supporting African liberation movements .

It should be noted that the most prominent Egyptian diplomats, academicians and specialists from different African countries participate in the activities of Pan Africa Summer School 2063, with the participation of the Executive Secretariat of the African Peer Review Mechanism Program, as well as (100) Egyptian and African students. The selection process was carried out in three stages, taking into account the geographical, educational, institutional, cultural, social, professional and sexual diversity as well as the representation of various ages.

The Pan Africa Summer School is one of the projects of the 4th edition of the African Awareness Program. It is the first interactive school to train young leaders from different governorates in the Arab Republic of Egypt and non-Egyptians young Africans. The school raises issues addressing many intellectual debates among young people in the following areas: (Political Science, Economics, Anthropology, History, Geography, Institutional Reform, Peace and Security, Organs of the AU, Personal Capacity Building, Natural Resources and Climate.)