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Under this title, an important forum on small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) gathered in Lisbon, Portugal on 6-7 June 2011. The conference was organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Brussels based international Association, EMRC , involved in promoting public and private partnership with the African private sector.
The Lisbon forum wanted to highlight the specific...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
Josè da Silva is the manager of Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, and his company, LUSAFRICA Productions, represents a true success story in the African cultural industry. The Courier met him at the ‘Girona Conference on Culture and Development’, which was held on 4 and 5 May and organised by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation and the EC’s DG Development...
They were very probably the first to walk the land of Southern Africa more than 30,000 years ago. The San - whom Dutch settlers much later called Bosjesmans ("bushmen") - were hunter-gatherers. About 2,500 years ago, some of these hunters became livestock farmers. These Khoikhois, moved southward, as far as the Cape of Good Hope. They shared a common language with the bushmen,...
The Khatàrsis Project in Cape Verde
Change is afoot in contemporary Cape Verdean culture. Young artists are set on stirring things up.
A good example is The Khatàrsis Project, a multidisciplinary art installation that was displayed at the Casa da Imprensa in Praia in December 2009. The project was born out of the desire to explore debates about the former Tarrafal prison camp...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Off target: EU member states’ aid spending
European Union (EU) member states are not on track to reach the target of an average 0.51 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) to be spent on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2010, says a new review of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The target was set in 2005 by 15 EU member states as an...
The special partnership – dating from November 2007 – with Cape Verde sets the standard for the way forward for every signatory of the Cotonou Agreement keen to strengthen its cooperation with the European Union, states Josep Coll i Carbo, head of the European Union Delegation in Praia.
“The partnership”, Coll i Carbo explained, “was set up at the request of...
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...
Under this title, an important forum on small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) gathered in Lisbon, Portugal on 6-7 June 2011. The conference was organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Brussels based international Association, EMRC , involved in promoting public and private partnership with the African private sector.
The Lisbon forum wanted to highlight the specific...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
Josè da Silva is the manager of Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, and his company, LUSAFRICA Productions, represents a true success story in the African cultural industry. The Courier met him at the ‘Girona Conference on Culture and Development’, which was held on 4 and 5 May and organised by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation and the EC’s DG Development...
They were very probably the first to walk the land of Southern Africa more than 30,000 years ago. The San - whom Dutch settlers much later called Bosjesmans ("bushmen") - were hunter-gatherers. About 2,500 years ago, some of these hunters became livestock farmers. These Khoikhois, moved southward, as far as the Cape of Good Hope. They shared a common language with the bushmen,...
The Khatàrsis Project in Cape Verde
Change is afoot in contemporary Cape Verdean culture. Young artists are set on stirring things up.
A good example is The Khatàrsis Project, a multidisciplinary art installation that was displayed at the Casa da Imprensa in Praia in December 2009. The project was born out of the desire to explore debates about the former Tarrafal prison camp...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Off target: EU member states’ aid spending
European Union (EU) member states are not on track to reach the target of an average 0.51 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) to be spent on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2010, says a new review of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The target was set in 2005 by 15 EU member states as an...
The special partnership – dating from November 2007 – with Cape Verde sets the standard for the way forward for every signatory of the Cotonou Agreement keen to strengthen its cooperation with the European Union, states Josep Coll i Carbo, head of the European Union Delegation in Praia.
“The partnership”, Coll i Carbo explained, “was set up at the request of...
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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