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6th June 2008

NEWS RELEASE

The walk of suffering!

125 miles 'barefoot' walk to see the Prime Minister.

The Council House, Corporation St. Derby, 11:00am on 16th June 2008.

Emmanuel Neba Fuh, an award-winning political refugee from Africa will be walking barefoot from Derby to Downing Street, London in an attempt to raise awareness about the inexplicable Human Rights abuses and genocide across the African continent, and the corrupt politics which facilitates it. He is expected to arrive at 10 Downing Street on 2nd July 2008, were he hopes to hand a letter to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

Emmanuel's walk has already received huge support from Derby people including the immediate past Mayor, Councillor Pauline Latham OBE, the City's new Mayor Councillor Barbara Jackson and the High Sheriff of Derbyshire Lord Ralph Kerr.  Pauline Latham will join Emmanuel for the first kilometre of the walk, barefoot.  The start of the walk is a curtain raiser for the 'Refugee Week' (16-22 June 2008) celebrations in Derby.  Emmanuel will be stopping at various locations throughout the walk to meet local leaders and communities, and to be available for media interviews.

On his arrival in London, Emmanuel hopes to lead a delegation from the Derby for Africa Initiative (DAI) to meet with British politicians, including the Prime Minister and opposition leaders, to present his 'agenda for change'.  High on this agenda will be support for an African Union of Students Conference in South Africa, which will create a platform for a symbolic One Million signature petition for an African Civil Rights Charter that will prevent African leaders from staying in power for more than two terms (ideally ten years).

Join the walk, or find out more at: www.derbyforafrica.org

ENDS

Note to editors
The Derby for Africa Initiative was started by Emmanuel Neba Fuh, to share and promote his vision for a better Africa, and a group of volunteers who have pooled their skills to make this vision a reality.

The DAI aims:

  1. To persuade the international community to stop confining itself to mild expressions of disappointment at the genocide in Africa, and engage in a tangible sustainable response according to a moral dimension.
  2. To mobilise a change in attitudes and raise awareness by influencing, persuading and bringing African Leaders to a new level of Human Rights consciousness which is a moral imperative.

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