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“Africa should have one identity, one nationality, one people, one currency, one army.”
Source: Speech in Sirte, Libya, 9 September 2006 (Reuters translation)
Context Addressing an African Union gathering in his hometown of Sirte, seven years after the 1999 summit there that set the AU in motion, he restated his call for a united Africa.
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