00:00The 55 states of the African Union are developing a legal and diplomatic strategy to bring European colonial powers before
00:08international courts and demand reparations for transatlantic slave trade.
00:13The strategy being pursued by numerous African jurisdictions as its president, the Chago Island case, where the International Court of
00:20Justice issued an opinion declaring that the United Kingdom was under obligation to end its colonial administration of the archipelago.
00:26That decision resulted in a transfer agreement valued at £30 billion to Mauritius.
00:33The African jurist explained that if the argument is sufficient to recognize the illegality of territorial colonialism, the same law
00:40should apply to recognizing the slave trade as a crime against humanity.
00:44Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom would be among the countries summoned to court.
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