(SANF)—The curtain comes down on a year that was largely mixed in terms of political, social and economic fortunes of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its 14 member states.
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(The Reporter) - United Nations Under-secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh has signed a memorandum of understanding between ECA and the governments of Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom regarding the provision of extra-budgetary resources for ECA activities as identified in its business plan for 2007-2009, ECA said.
The MoU was signed Thursday 20 December 2007 at the ECA offices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and provides about US$ 12 million towards ECA activities in gender, governance, regional integration and intra-African trade from January 2008 to December 2009.
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(The Daily Monitor) - Cuban Vice President on a three day working visit here on Thursday met and held discussions with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Professor Alpha Oumar Konare.
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Blake Evans-Pritchard (IPS) -The hope for a lasting peace in Darfur is pinned on the deployment of 26,000 peacekeeping troops to the troubled region. However, squabbling between the many rebel factions, the Sudanese government and the international community still threatens to derail the process.
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