Front row, from left: Johann Ebongom, Chanel Chauvet, Amanda Hoefer, Rebecca Wackym; back row, from left, Nelly Ndounteng, Shummi Chowdhury

A team of 6 Georgia Law students will represent the Republic of Niger in the 20th Annual Southeast Model African Union.

Thanks to the leadership of the African Studies Institute at University of Georgia, the regional competition will be held here on campus Thursday through Saturday. The Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law, is honored to cosponsor.

The contest is intended to sharpen skills in diplomacy, leadership, governmental, legal research, and public speaking. Rounds will simulate activities of the African Union.

Through the work of its many committees, this decades-old the intergovernmental organization addresses myriad issues on the continent. The competition will use as its organizing platform an African Union document, “Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.”

The students Georgia Law students who will compete, and their committee assignments, are:

► Rebecca Wackym, 1L, Executive Council

► Amanda Hoefer, 1L, Committee on Democracy, Governance and Human Rights

► Johann Ebongom, LLM, Committee on Economic Matters

► Nelly Ndounteng, LLM, Committee on Social Matters

► Shummi Chowdhury, 1L, Committee on Pan-Africanism and Continental Unity

► Chanel Chauvet, 2L, Committee on Peace and Security

All the students have experience in international law and policy. Chowdhury and Chauvet are Dean Rusk International Law Center Student Ambassadors, for example, while Ndounteng and Ebongom both practiced law, in Nigeria and Cameroon respectively, before enrolling at Georgia Law.

Bon courage!