African Union Chairperson President Macky Sall urged African nations to rely on tit-for-tat in their cooperation with global partners.  

The Chairperson said on the 35th African Union Assembly that every social, economic and political partnership of African states with their international counterparts must rely only on mutual benefit. 

This helps the continent to ensure its independence, he added.

A reciprocation must be a guiding rule in investment, development and other diplomatic relationship between Africa and US, Russia, China, Japan or other countries or continents.

These days, some developed countries attempt to manipulating the continent in the name of cooperation which is unacceptable in the contemporary order of the world, the Chairperson emphasized.