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Offical AU Documents - (61 articles)

CSO Documents - (44 articles)

Discussion Papers - (9 articles)

Friday, July 03, 2009

Helping Small Farmers Feed a Continent

(IRIN)--As an African Union summit on agricultural investments opens in Libya, donors and non-profits are calling participants’ attention to the role smallholder farmers – mostly women – can have in feeding their communities.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Injustices and Malpractices Going on in the PAP

Kofi Ali Abdul (Action Group of Africa)--While I am trying to digest the article on the injustices and malpractices going on in the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and the window dressings, it will be good to let you know that I am just back from Accra, Ghana where I joined others on an awareness campaign of the need for the voting right of all the 850 million citizens of the African Union (AU) member states to the AU Commission chairperson.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa

(AU)--In 2006, the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank initiated a process for the development of a framework and guidelines for land policy and land reform in Africa with a view to strengthening land rights, enhancing productivity and securing livelihoods for the majority of the continent’s population.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Call for Papers on the African Youth Charter

(AfriMAP)--2008 was the Year of African Youth, yet the African Youth Charter, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in July 2006, has still only been ratified by 13 countries – needing two more ratifications before it can enter into force.

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