(Xinhua)--Agricultural investment, food security, as well as the state of peace and security in Africa are likely to top the agenda of the upcoming 13th African Union (AU) summit, which will open Wednesday in Sirte, Libya’s port city.
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Richard Cornwel (Institute for Security Studies)--The ICC indictment of Sudan’s President Omar el Bashir, Zimbabwe’s troubled transitional unity government, and Madagascar’s recent coup may well take most of the headlines at next month’s African Union (AU) summit in Sirte, Libya.
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Tetteh Hormeku (Third World Network-Africa)--Pressures in the negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union have, over the past two weeks, pushed two more regional economic groupings in Africa to the brink of disintegration. This adds to the two other regions, which have already been under stress since the beginning of 2008. On June 4 in Brussels, the EU signed an interim economic partnership agreement with Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland against the wishes of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. This has made imminent an acrimonious break-up of Africa’s oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
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Khadija Sharife (Foreign Policy In Focus)--‘We cannot assure our development on our own,’ stated France’s pet dictator and Africa’s longest-serving ruler, Omar Bongo. The Gabonese leader was talking about national economic development, but he might just as well have been talking about his own personal economic development.
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