The Global Solidarity Network concluded the African Union Simulation Model for STEM School students under the theme “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”, the same theme adopted by the African Union at its most recent summit in February 2025.
The model was held during August 2025 through a series of specialised academic sessions, workshops, and policy paper writing, with the participation of a select group of diplomats, African affairs researchers, officials, and staff members of the African Union and research centers. The aim was to prepare students for a simulation of the African Union Summit.
The program’s activities included intensive sessions covering diverse topics, most notably: the institutional structure of the African Union, “Our African Continent through Egyptian Eyes,” the issue of water cooperation, Egypt’s developmental role in the continent, the African economy, the legal dimension of the African Union, models of AU institutions, AU resolutions on justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations, and the political role of the African Union in supporting issues of peace and conflict.
The program concluded with a practical simulation session held at the Palace of Ali Ibrahim Pasha under the supervision of anthropological researcher Hassan Ghazaly, founder of the Global Solidarity Network. Students were divided into representatives of thirty African countries and eight colonial states, presenting thirty-eight comprehensive position papers. The African state representatives highlighted the continent’s demands for recognition of historical rights, psychological reparations, rewriting African history to include acknowledgment of massacres, the plundering of resources, and the slave trade committed during colonialism.
Ghazaly affirmed that the experience achieved its objectives in sharpening students’ awareness of African issues and enhancing their research, presentation, and debating skills. He added: “Preparing a young generation that is conscious of Africa’s challenges and capable of representing it with competence is a true investment in the continent’s future and a reflection of Egypt’s vision to support the building of African capacities.”
Ghazaly further noted that since the launch of the African Union Simulation Model as part of the International Awareness Program in 2012, its primary goal has been to raise Egyptian youth’s awareness of African continental institutions, their decisions, and Egypt’s historic and active role in the organization since its establishment in 1963 up to the present day.
The Global Solidarity Network brings together several projects that have been launched cumulatively since 2012 with the aim of fostering a spirit of joint action and solidarity in all its forms. Among its most prominent projects, reflecting the diversity of its activities and its vision to strengthen dialogue and communication, are: the African Union Simulation Model, the AfroMedia Initiative, the Seeds Project for Popular Culture, the Global South Solidarity School, the National Awareness Project for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, the Nile Valley Peoples’ Solidarity Project, and the Global Solidarity Talks Program.
