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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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The spread of Islam at the end of the first millennium A.D. can be taken as the starting point. Its expansion occurred through Portugal’s development of trade with India via the Middle East at the end of the 15th Century. Later on, the slave trade migrated further to the south and the Gulf of Guinea, which also became the gateway for Christian evangelisation, thus forming a fault line in...
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...
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.
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Fifty-two years after its independence, a new era is beginning for Guinea with the election of Alpha Condé as the head of the country. The new head of state has promised to get his country back on track. He will face many challenges and it will be a laborious task.
“Guinea is back! The event we are celebrating today is heralding in a new era, an era of the rule of law, of...
Misinformation has been one of the main stumbling blocks to the conclusion of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with West Africa.
An EPA with West Africa would potentially be the largest by trade volume since the region currently accounts for 40 per cent of all ACP-EU trade.
“Failure in the past to interact with constituents has given room for misinformation,...
PAPED is the EU-financed Development Programme for West Africa attached to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), a free trade agreement between the EU and the region. It is tailored to enable the region to make the most of the new market openings.
The PAPED ‘aid for trade’ package has been drawn up in tandem with talks between the EU and West Africa on market liberalisation...
“I would like to convey one of the Assembly’s concerns and that is the dramatic situation in Madagascar”, declared Louis Michel at the inaugural meeting of the 19th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 31 March in Tenerife (Spain).
Addressing Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the MEP and Assembly co-president called on the EU Council to...
Left alone to face the elements for more than 14 centuries, except for occasional landings by the Senegalese or even, it is said, the Chinese, the Cape Verde archipelago was not settled permanently until 1460. It was then that the navigator Diego Gomes took possession of the archipelago. It became the property of the Portuguese Crown in 1494. A land of seafarers recruited for whale fishing...
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...
The spread of Islam at the end of the first millennium A.D. can be taken as the starting point. Its expansion occurred through Portugal’s development of trade with India via the Middle East at the end of the 15th Century. Later on, the slave trade migrated further to the south and the Gulf of Guinea, which also became the gateway for Christian evangelisation, thus forming a fault line in...
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...
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...
Fifty-two years after its independence, a new era is beginning for Guinea with the election of Alpha Condé as the head of the country. The new head of state has promised to get his country back on track. He will face many challenges and it will be a laborious task.
“Guinea is back! The event we are celebrating today is heralding in a new era, an era of the rule of law, of...
Misinformation has been one of the main stumbling blocks to the conclusion of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with West Africa.
An EPA with West Africa would potentially be the largest by trade volume since the region currently accounts for 40 per cent of all ACP-EU trade.
“Failure in the past to interact with constituents has given room for misinformation,...
PAPED is the EU-financed Development Programme for West Africa attached to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), a free trade agreement between the EU and the region. It is tailored to enable the region to make the most of the new market openings.
The PAPED ‘aid for trade’ package has been drawn up in tandem with talks between the EU and West Africa on market liberalisation...
“I would like to convey one of the Assembly’s concerns and that is the dramatic situation in Madagascar”, declared Louis Michel at the inaugural meeting of the 19th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 31 March in Tenerife (Spain).
Addressing Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the MEP and Assembly co-president called on the EU Council to...
Left alone to face the elements for more than 14 centuries, except for occasional landings by the Senegalese or even, it is said, the Chinese, the Cape Verde archipelago was not settled permanently until 1460. It was then that the navigator Diego Gomes took possession of the archipelago. It became the property of the Portuguese Crown in 1494. A land of seafarers recruited for whale fishing...
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