Mauritius
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
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...
School children from Zimbabwe, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago are among the winners of the European Commission's (EC) International Drawing Competition on Gender Equality, announced on 29 June.
Each winner will be given €1,000 to spend on computers, books or pay for school, library fees or other educational materials. The winning drawings were...
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....
“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?...
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...
A more open European Union market for Zambia’s sugar exports is creating new investment and jobs and increasing the country’s export receipts.
Since last year, the duty and quota-free market is ushering in new investment opportunities for sugar in Zambia’s huge arable lands to supply new markets and new industries. It is predicted that Zambia’s sugar industry will grow...
EU funds for 13 ACPs to cushion the impact of the economic crisis
Eleven African and two Caribbean countries are the initial beneficiaries of €215M from the EU’s Vulnerability-FLEX (V-FLEX) finance mechanism for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations, it was announced in December 2009. They are: Benin, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea...
Alessandro Mariani , the newly-appointed Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Seychelles on Tuesday 6 October 2009. He gave an exclusive interview to The Courier on the occasion.
Ambassador AM - I came here to present my credentials to the President of Seychelles. Moreover I...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
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...
School children from Zimbabwe, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago are among the winners of the European Commission's (EC) International Drawing Competition on Gender Equality, announced on 29 June.
Each winner will be given €1,000 to spend on computers, books or pay for school, library fees or other educational materials. The winning drawings were...
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....
“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?...
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...
A more open European Union market for Zambia’s sugar exports is creating new investment and jobs and increasing the country’s export receipts.
Since last year, the duty and quota-free market is ushering in new investment opportunities for sugar in Zambia’s huge arable lands to supply new markets and new industries. It is predicted that Zambia’s sugar industry will grow...
EU funds for 13 ACPs to cushion the impact of the economic crisis
Eleven African and two Caribbean countries are the initial beneficiaries of €215M from the EU’s Vulnerability-FLEX (V-FLEX) finance mechanism for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations, it was announced in December 2009. They are: Benin, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea...
Alessandro Mariani , the newly-appointed Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Seychelles on Tuesday 6 October 2009. He gave an exclusive interview to The Courier on the occasion.
Ambassador AM - I came here to present my credentials to the President of Seychelles. Moreover I...
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