[3] A research hired by the European Commission concluded that despite being Africa's top trading partner, European Union is not perceived as a major partner for African states with the United States and China ranked higher.

[4] The summit was organized to address some of those concerns as well as complex issues related to aspects of African immigration to Europe and the European Union response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[7] Comorians were heavily critical of French President Emmanuel Macron as being "responsible for all the misfortunes that hit the Comoros."

Congolese protesters denounced presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni of Rwanda and Uganda respectively, seeing them as playing a major role in destabilising the DRC.

Ethiopians condemned the war crimes, massacres and sexual violence being committed in Tigray, and called for Eritrean forces to withdraw from the country.