Scott Baldauf (Christian Science Monitor)—When the Bush administration announced the creation of a new Africa Command within its military forces last February, many African diplomats were horrified. Some expressed fears that the US military would follow in the colonial footsteps of Europe in establishing a military presence on the continent with an eye toward controlling Africa’s vast resources.
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Michael Deibert (IPS)—While its economic landscape is brightening, Africa is still bedeviled by some of the same obstacles that has historically served to undermine economic development in the resource and labour-rich region. And many of those woes could be solved through development of further intraregional trade.
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David Cronin (IPS)—Senior World Bank staff have asked the European Union to consider extending the end-of-year deadline it has set for a series of free trade agreements with Africa.
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PANA—Outraged by the rebel attack that left 10 personnel of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission dead and 10 others wounded in South Darfur Saturday, AU Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has said the assailants will bear the consequences of the heinous act.
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