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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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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...
On 15 March in Brussels, the President of the Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) launched an offensive aimed at generating a new impetus on the part of the European Union and the United States to mobilise support of African cotton.
The action is being led by the UEMOA and the Cotton-4 group (C4) that represents the four producing countries (Burkina Faso,...
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....
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,...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A European Commission-funded project studying the dynamics of migration and town planning, implemented by UN-HABITAT, is underway in about thirty ACP countries. It is examining the planning characteristics of cities in which shanty towns have developed and is setting up action plans for improvements in their inhabitants’ living conditions. One of the first conclusions to be drawn is...
ECOSOCC, the acronym for the African Union’s (AU) Economic, Social and Cultural Council, an institutional bridge between African civil society and the AU, is not widely known. Since it was set up in 2002, it has not been operating at full throttle but its lively president, the Cameroonian lawyer Akere Muna, says this won’t be the case for much longer.
Akere Muna was interviewed in...
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...
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...
On 15 March in Brussels, the President of the Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) launched an offensive aimed at generating a new impetus on the part of the European Union and the United States to mobilise support of African cotton.
The action is being led by the UEMOA and the Cotton-4 group (C4) that represents the four producing countries (Burkina Faso,...
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....
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,...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A European Commission-funded project studying the dynamics of migration and town planning, implemented by UN-HABITAT, is underway in about thirty ACP countries. It is examining the planning characteristics of cities in which shanty towns have developed and is setting up action plans for improvements in their inhabitants’ living conditions. One of the first conclusions to be drawn is...
ECOSOCC, the acronym for the African Union’s (AU) Economic, Social and Cultural Council, an institutional bridge between African civil society and the AU, is not widely known. Since it was set up in 2002, it has not been operating at full throttle but its lively president, the Cameroonian lawyer Akere Muna, says this won’t be the case for much longer.
Akere Muna was interviewed in...
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