Somalia
Deployed in Uganda for the past year, the Europeans are now discreetly completing the training of almost 2,000 Somali soldiers. This represents a new kind of mission for a European Union that is better known for its involvement in economic or social development projects. An example for the future?
This represents a first for the EU: the direct training of elements of an African army. Never...
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...
This Autumn will see the drafting by the European Union (EU) of a Communication on the Horn of Africa, including Somalia. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, is also due in the region in September. Ahead of both, Somali Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in different parts of the country with EU partners assess their country’s...
Cooking pots from refugees transformed into drums with cow and reindeer hide will be mounted on a trailer and played in schools and public places. Sandals ‑ mostly flip flops ‑ from the feet of refugees around the world will be laid around Turku in the form of paths. A tent woven together from pieces of cloth made by refugees will provide a venue for music, drama, poetry and debate. This ‘...
African livestock maintains its foothold on the international market
The cattle trade is growing in Africa. A powerful factor in regional integration, it also has to comply with the health standards imposed by importing countries, in particular the Gulf states. On this new market, there is one key player: the African Union’s Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), which...
The European Union intends to take up the role of chief whip to encourage the international community to make up lost ground on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The position it will set out at the United Nations summit in New York is outlined in the ambitious twelve-point action plan adopted at the European Council in June.
An action plan to get back on track
On the one hand, the...
Hope is reborn and new initiatives are bearing fruit. “Peace is back”. It’s not really fresh news; the last armed faction laid down its arms back in April 2009. But this is one of those countries that appear to be locked into an image which people hold of it, in this case that of ethnic conflict. Burundi deserves to be discovered, for the economic opportunities, for its...
Security guarantee for the EU and Sahelian countries
The “non-Maghreb” situation that currently prevails between the five countries of Western North Africa could weigh on the security situation, both of the EU and of the Sahelian countries. That is the substance of the warning issued by the Thomas More Institute, a European think-tank.
On 7 April in Brussels, the Thomas More...
“The eradication of world hunger is not only the cornerstone of our aid programme, but a key element in our foreign policy”, Peter Power, Secretary of State for development, explains to us. Ireland has certainly not forgotten its own past in this regard. The Great Famine of the 1840's “is part of our DNA”, asserts the head of the Irish Aid Agency, and this is the...
When The Courier met with the President of the Republic of Seychelles, James Alix Michel, he had just wound up a series of informal meetings with citizens, putting over an image of a rather out of the ordinary president, but especially of a country with an accessibility and ease of contact between the citizens and those in power. European Union (EU) affairs were also on the president’s...
Deployed in Uganda for the past year, the Europeans are now discreetly completing the training of almost 2,000 Somali soldiers. This represents a new kind of mission for a European Union that is better known for its involvement in economic or social development projects. An example for the future?
This represents a first for the EU: the direct training of elements of an African army. Never...
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...
This Autumn will see the drafting by the European Union (EU) of a Communication on the Horn of Africa, including Somalia. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, is also due in the region in September. Ahead of both, Somali Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in different parts of the country with EU partners assess their country’s...
Cooking pots from refugees transformed into drums with cow and reindeer hide will be mounted on a trailer and played in schools and public places. Sandals ‑ mostly flip flops ‑ from the feet of refugees around the world will be laid around Turku in the form of paths. A tent woven together from pieces of cloth made by refugees will provide a venue for music, drama, poetry and debate. This ‘...
African livestock maintains its foothold on the international market
The cattle trade is growing in Africa. A powerful factor in regional integration, it also has to comply with the health standards imposed by importing countries, in particular the Gulf states. On this new market, there is one key player: the African Union’s Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), which...
The European Union intends to take up the role of chief whip to encourage the international community to make up lost ground on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The position it will set out at the United Nations summit in New York is outlined in the ambitious twelve-point action plan adopted at the European Council in June.
An action plan to get back on track
On the one hand, the...
Hope is reborn and new initiatives are bearing fruit. “Peace is back”. It’s not really fresh news; the last armed faction laid down its arms back in April 2009. But this is one of those countries that appear to be locked into an image which people hold of it, in this case that of ethnic conflict. Burundi deserves to be discovered, for the economic opportunities, for its...
Security guarantee for the EU and Sahelian countries
The “non-Maghreb” situation that currently prevails between the five countries of Western North Africa could weigh on the security situation, both of the EU and of the Sahelian countries. That is the substance of the warning issued by the Thomas More Institute, a European think-tank.
On 7 April in Brussels, the Thomas More...
“The eradication of world hunger is not only the cornerstone of our aid programme, but a key element in our foreign policy”, Peter Power, Secretary of State for development, explains to us. Ireland has certainly not forgotten its own past in this regard. The Great Famine of the 1840's “is part of our DNA”, asserts the head of the Irish Aid Agency, and this is the...
When The Courier met with the President of the Republic of Seychelles, James Alix Michel, he had just wound up a series of informal meetings with citizens, putting over an image of a rather out of the ordinary president, but especially of a country with an accessibility and ease of contact between the citizens and those in power. European Union (EU) affairs were also on the president’s...
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