George Floyd Murder : Former African Leaders Condemn Act

Former African presidents have condemned the killing of George Floyd on Monday, May 25th, 2020 by a Minnesota police after one of the officers kneeled on his neck, despite Floyd’s repeated pleas of "I can't breathe". The Forum of Former Heads of State and Government has urged African countries to “raise a strong protest” to the killing and demand that the “perpetrators of this crime and all other crimes of this sort be punished in the strongest terms”, according to a statement released by former Beninese President Nicéphore Soglo. “What level of cruelty must you reach that the entire world finally wakes up and manifests its indignation. Who would dare here, their face visible, to treat in such a way a European, an Arab, an Israeli, an Indian, a Chinese, a Japanese, an Argentinian, etc. Enough is enough,” he said. Ghana’s President Nana Okufo Addo in a tweet said, “We stand with our kith and kin in America in these difficult and trying times, and we hope that the un- fortunate, tragic death of George Floyd will inspire a lasting change in how Ame- rica confronts head on the problems of hate and racism”. South Africa’s ruling party, African National Congress (ANC), has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage with the US “to diffuse racial tensions and build social cohesion among different races”. Earlier, the African Union through its Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, on Friday strongly condemned the murder of George Floyd in the hands of law enforcement officers, “I wish to extend my deepest condolen...