(CCP-AU)--Participants in the Fourth citizens’ continental conference on the 12th summit of the African Union issued the following communiqué with their recommendations to the heads of State and Government of Africa.
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(APA)—The African Union Commission is facing financial problems, commissioner for economic affairs Maxwell Mkwezalamba said on Wednesday in Addis Ababa.
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University of Toronto economist Garth Frazer asks an intriguing question: With plenty of low-skill, low-wage workers at its disposal and with plenty of cotton for T-shirts, why has Africa never stepped "onto the bottom rung of the manufacturing ladder" - the first step in the rise of Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China? What went right in East Asia and wrong in Africa? An authority on African economic development, Prof. Frazer suggests an intriguing answer: In a stunning instance of unintended consequences, he says, African progress has been pre-empted for 30 years by the donations of used clothing to charitable thrift shops throughout the industrialized world. Call it - as a seasonal reference, at any rate - the bah-humbug principle of benevolence.
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APA—The African Union Commission and a French military delegation have held talks in Addis Ababa to discuss military cooperation between the African states and Paris, which has several military bases in the continent.
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