SIERRA LEONE
To be able to switch on lights for the first time – earlier this year – brought expectation of change for those citizens of Freetown who were used to being in the dark. President Ernest Bai Koroma won a slim victory in the run-off elections in September 2007, and energy generation remains a top priority. The Bumbuna hydro electric power plant project, which Koroma has himself described as, “the longest hydro project in human history”, should be completed this year and there is anticipation of other projects to boost output beyond Freetown to rural areas. Koroma has told the public that he will not stop “until we are in a position of getting 100 megawatts for the country.”
Second round of Zimbabwe’s Presidential elections not valid, says EU Commissioner
Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Development Policy, has said that the decision of Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), to pull-out of the election campaign is “clearly understandable” and that...
Invitation to development twins
“If each local authority with its (however limited) resources decided to twin itself with a town, a municipality, a district, a province or a region in the South, the world would be changed and poverty would decrease rapidly,”...
- 10/06/2008: TACKLE, to tackle child labour in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
- 09/06/2008: ACP Council of Ministers in Addis Ababa to harmonise their EPA negotiating strategy
- 06/06/2008: Ban on humanitarian effort in Zimbabwe, "must be lifted straight away"
- 30/05/2008: “We have a right to mobility,” says ACP head
- 29/05/2008: Cape Verde-EU ‘Special Partnership’ takes shape
