Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitution Ghana is hosting a conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the adoption of the landmark United Nations (UN) resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Heads of state and government, ministers, civil society representatives, historians, researchers and legal experts representing more than 80 countries are converging in the capital, Accra, for the three-day event, billed Next Steps, which starts on Wednesday. It is the first major gathering on the issue since the resolution was adopted. The conference will feature an event on 19 June at Osu Castle - a 17th-century fortress in the capital built by the Danish that served as a hub for the transatlantic slave trade - to honour Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the US. Expected speakers include prime minister Mia Mottley of Barbados and presidents John Mahama, Joseph Boakai Sr, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Ghana, Liberia, Namibia and Senegal, respectively. The French
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