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Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
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Ten years and thousands of child beneficiaries later, Sylvia Arthur reports on a unique British charity whose aim is to put itself out of business.
When Georgie Fienberg visited Ghana on a gap year almost fifteen years ago, she couldn’t have known the impact it would have on the rest of her life. Not just hers, but those of thousands of children in northern Ghana whose lives she would...
West Africa’s plans to move up the world tourism rankings are taking root, both at regional and country-levels.
Nigeria’s Delta State is aiming for one million visitors a year by 2014 on completion of a water theme park. According to Richard Mofe Damijo, state commissioner for tourism, it is the first of its kind in West Africa and will help propel the country’s tourism sector...
Established in 1991, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a partnership between African governments and the international donor community, is enabling Africa to build its own capacity, says Executive Secretary, Frannie Leautier. She was recently in Brussels to explain more about ACBF’s aims and activities to European Union (EU) institutions. The body has, to date, funded 246...
The winning in 2012 of the bid to site the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the most powerful radio telescope in the world would bring a plethora of benefits to South Africa and the African continent, says South Africa’s Project Director for SKA, Dr. Bernie Fanaroff.
South Africa was short-listed to site this iconic telescope in 2006 by the SKA Steering Committee....
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial radio station, set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between West African countries.
Its promoter is the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), part of the network of the Soros Foundations whose aims are to further democracy, good governance, the rule of law, freedom and civil society participation.
After...
The populations of West Africa are among the most exposed in the world to desert dust. Yet interest in scientific research into this particular form of pollution is virtually nil. A team from Benin and Europe is now appealing for international institutions to pay more attention to the problem.
There is a high probability that the health of African populations is very seriously affected by...
Universal Healthcare Insurance (UHI) or health insurance, financed by the state, employers and possibly by private individuals, was long regarded as unattainable in developing countries. Unlike pensions, industrial accident insurance or free public schooling, this was not part of the colonial legacy bequeathed to the newly independent African or Caribbean states in the 1960s and 70s....
He is currently working on some of his most prestigious as well as most creative and innovative of projects: the vast restructuring of Doha city centre in Qatar, and the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. This is after completing the Moscow School of Management/Skolkovo in line with the competition requirement “to promote an...
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
Thirteen...
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Ten years and thousands of child beneficiaries later, Sylvia Arthur reports on a unique British charity whose aim is to put itself out of business.
When Georgie Fienberg visited Ghana on a gap year almost fifteen years ago, she couldn’t have known the impact it would have on the rest of her life. Not just hers, but those of thousands of children in northern Ghana whose lives she would...
West Africa’s plans to move up the world tourism rankings are taking root, both at regional and country-levels.
Nigeria’s Delta State is aiming for one million visitors a year by 2014 on completion of a water theme park. According to Richard Mofe Damijo, state commissioner for tourism, it is the first of its kind in West Africa and will help propel the country’s tourism sector...
Established in 1991, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a partnership between African governments and the international donor community, is enabling Africa to build its own capacity, says Executive Secretary, Frannie Leautier. She was recently in Brussels to explain more about ACBF’s aims and activities to European Union (EU) institutions. The body has, to date, funded 246...
The winning in 2012 of the bid to site the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the most powerful radio telescope in the world would bring a plethora of benefits to South Africa and the African continent, says South Africa’s Project Director for SKA, Dr. Bernie Fanaroff.
South Africa was short-listed to site this iconic telescope in 2006 by the SKA Steering Committee....
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial radio station, set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between West African countries.
Its promoter is the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), part of the network of the Soros Foundations whose aims are to further democracy, good governance, the rule of law, freedom and civil society participation.
After...
The populations of West Africa are among the most exposed in the world to desert dust. Yet interest in scientific research into this particular form of pollution is virtually nil. A team from Benin and Europe is now appealing for international institutions to pay more attention to the problem.
There is a high probability that the health of African populations is very seriously affected by...
Universal Healthcare Insurance (UHI) or health insurance, financed by the state, employers and possibly by private individuals, was long regarded as unattainable in developing countries. Unlike pensions, industrial accident insurance or free public schooling, this was not part of the colonial legacy bequeathed to the newly independent African or Caribbean states in the 1960s and 70s....
He is currently working on some of his most prestigious as well as most creative and innovative of projects: the vast restructuring of Doha city centre in Qatar, and the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. This is after completing the Moscow School of Management/Skolkovo in line with the competition requirement “to promote an...
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
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