Djibouti
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
Building islands of fertile land that will progressively form a Great Green Wall from Senegal to Djibouti. This is the ambition of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), a priority action for the EU-Africa Partnership on Climate Change. This large-scale project will be officially launched in the coming months.
A Great Green Wall. It conjures up an image of a...
Meeting with the laureate of the 2008 Alternative Nobel Prize, awarded for a woman’s struggle in a country dominated by ‘warlords’.
It is six in the evening on 9 December 2008 at the Place du Luxembourg in Brussels. In a restaurant opposite the glass facades of the European Parliament building, Asha Hagi is struggling to finish her salad. The day before she was in...
A packed agenda for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Summit, September 30-3 October in Accra, Ghana, likely to give rise to vigorous debate, was announced as we went to press.
© AK Anobil
The ACP group’s Summit, bringing together 79 countries, was to take place in Accra, Ghana, 30 September – 3 October 2008. It was to be preceded by a ministerial meeting on ‘human development and human...
The food crisis, the ongoing situation in Zimbabwe and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were the three key subjects of discussion at the 11th African Union Summit. Held from 29 June to 1 July in Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea in Egypt, it was attended by heads of state and government, officials and representatives from the African Union's (AU) 53 member states.
© Marco Mensa...
Ministers from the 79-member African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations who met in Addis Ababa Ethiopia 9-11 June, cast doubt over whether the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) establishing free trade areas between ACP and EU states fit with their development needs.
These pacts “risk disorting regional integration,” said Mohamed Admed Awalesh, Djibouti’s...
Romania’s entry into the European Union at the beginning of 2007 marked a turning point in its foreign policy as the country embraced Europe’s cooperation and development objectives, and joined the group of donor countries. However, with regard to the ACP countries, it is a policy that remains embryonic.
Accession to the EU in January 2007 represented an historic moment for...
© EC
1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
One of the issues facing European Commissioner Louis Michel when he took office was how to express in concrete terms the considerable sums allocated to cooperation with ACP countries: €13.5 billion for the period 2002–2007 and €22.6 billion for 2008–2013. A closer look behind the figures shows a number of undeniable successes in EU-ACP cooperation.
A case in point is...
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
Building islands of fertile land that will progressively form a Great Green Wall from Senegal to Djibouti. This is the ambition of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), a priority action for the EU-Africa Partnership on Climate Change. This large-scale project will be officially launched in the coming months.
A Great Green Wall. It conjures up an image of a...
Meeting with the laureate of the 2008 Alternative Nobel Prize, awarded for a woman’s struggle in a country dominated by ‘warlords’.
It is six in the evening on 9 December 2008 at the Place du Luxembourg in Brussels. In a restaurant opposite the glass facades of the European Parliament building, Asha Hagi is struggling to finish her salad. The day before she was in...
A packed agenda for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Summit, September 30-3 October in Accra, Ghana, likely to give rise to vigorous debate, was announced as we went to press.
© AK Anobil
The ACP group’s Summit, bringing together 79 countries, was to take place in Accra, Ghana, 30 September – 3 October 2008. It was to be preceded by a ministerial meeting on ‘human development and human...
The food crisis, the ongoing situation in Zimbabwe and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were the three key subjects of discussion at the 11th African Union Summit. Held from 29 June to 1 July in Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea in Egypt, it was attended by heads of state and government, officials and representatives from the African Union's (AU) 53 member states.
© Marco Mensa...
Ministers from the 79-member African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations who met in Addis Ababa Ethiopia 9-11 June, cast doubt over whether the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) establishing free trade areas between ACP and EU states fit with their development needs.
These pacts “risk disorting regional integration,” said Mohamed Admed Awalesh, Djibouti’s...
Romania’s entry into the European Union at the beginning of 2007 marked a turning point in its foreign policy as the country embraced Europe’s cooperation and development objectives, and joined the group of donor countries. However, with regard to the ACP countries, it is a policy that remains embryonic.
Accession to the EU in January 2007 represented an historic moment for...
© EC
1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
One of the issues facing European Commissioner Louis Michel when he took office was how to express in concrete terms the considerable sums allocated to cooperation with ACP countries: €13.5 billion for the period 2002–2007 and €22.6 billion for 2008–2013. A closer look behind the figures shows a number of undeniable successes in EU-ACP cooperation.
A case in point is...
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