The proposals approved by the COMEDAF Bureau of Ministers (at their meeting in Bamako, Mali, 31 May - 1 June 1999) were later presented (by the OAU Council of [Foreign] Ministers) to the Summit of African Heads of State and Government (held in Algiers, Algeria, on 12-14 July 1999). The support of the Heads of State and Government was considered absolutely critical if African countries were to reassert the priority and lead role of education as an essential tool for renewal and development in the region. 

• The following document is available for download at the MINEDAF Document Service: 
  
  Decision on the Report of the Secretary-General on the Conference of African Ministers of Education and the implementation of the Programme of Action of the Decade of Education in Africa; 1 p. [DOC]

See also

COMEDAF I - Conference of African Ministers of Education organized by the OAU, Harare, 15-19 March 1999

• Meetings of Ad Hoc Committee of African Ministers of Education
  • Harare, 15-19 March, 1999
  • N'Djamena, Chad, 11-13 April 1999
• Meeting of COMEDAF Bureau of Ministers (Bamako, Mali, 31 May - 1 June 1999)
• Decision of African Heads of State and Government on Conference of African Ministers of Education
• Extra-ordinary Meeting of COMEDAF Bureau of Ministers (Tripoli, Libya, mid-August 1999)