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2007-07-26, Issue 314
Rwanda, the country of a thousand hills, has been hosting the working session of the meeting of Member States’ experts on integration in Africa. The experts’ meeting, which will last from the 23 to 25 July 2007, is holding in the Conference Hall of t...
New Trade Deals
Gichinga Ndirangu
2007-07-26, Issue 314
As Africa’s leaders met in Accra, Ghana, last week to consider ways of consolidating continental unity through increased trade, pertinent questions were being raised over the impact that a new trade arrangement between the European Union and the 75-m...
ECA and UNEP Collaborate on Costs of Climate Change
2007-07-26, Issue 314
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today in Addis Ababa agreed to deepen their collaboration by working together on various environment-related issues in Africa, including the e...
Africans Fear ‘Ruin’ in Europe Trade Talks
Gumisai Mutume
2007-07-26, Issue 314
The warnings are grim. Cape Verde may lose 80 per cent of its import revenues. Three-quarters of Ghana’s industry may collapse. And African countries could end up even more dependent on trade with Europe than with each other. Such worries about the p...
Civil Society Advocates Further Liberalisation of AGOA
Joseph Coomson
2007-07-26, Issue 314
As the 7th Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) summit is in progress, civil society organizations from the United States of America (USA) and Africa in a parallel Summit have called on the US Authorities to further liberalize their market and ex...
Darfur Actors to Discuss Road Map for Peace
2007-07-13, Issue 312
Khartoum, 11 July 2007 (IRIN)- The UN and African Union are to meet key regional and international actors in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur to seek a blueprint for peace in the region....
Africans in Diaspora Seek Strong Unity Government
This Day, Lagos
Abimbola Akosile
2007-07-13, Issue 312
Africans in the Diaspora have called on all African Diaspora leaders to support the building a strong Diaspora region that will positively influence the creation of an African government for all African people....
African Union Failed the Crucial Test
Caesar Zvayi
2007-07-13, Issue 312
No one denies that it is only through a Union government and unity of purpose that Africa can claim its rightful stake in the world. Barring unity, Africa would continue suffering the depredations of Western nations bent on exploiting its vast res...
African citizenship for all
Hakima Abbas
2007-07-05, Issue 311
Hakima Abbas reports back on the progress made on the campaign for freedom of movement across the continent for all its citizens.
Accra Declaration Concludes Grand Debate
2007-07-06, Issue 311
The Accra Declaration was (www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/images/uploads/ACCRAJuly2007AUSummitDECLARATION.pdf) adopted by Heads of States at the conclusion of the African Union Summit. The Declaration reflects some of the demands of civil society, part...
Adopt It Without Delay
2007-07-06, Issue 311
Daily Graphic - The President of Liberia, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has urged African leaders to endorse without delay the concept of a United States of Africa. She has also prodded them to instruct, in no uncertain terms, all regional economic commissions and community institutions to formulate and adopt the road map and the time table for the achievement that goal....
Repatriation in the Context of the Grand Debate
2007-07-06, Issue 311
A statement from the Rastafari People at the African Union Grand Debate was issued on July 2, 2007. It states: “The World Conference Against Racism declared the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a crime against humanity. This year, Britain and America have celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the end of that wickedness. The Republic of Ghana, for its part, has also seen fit to do something to atone for this crime against humanity and the complicity of some chiefs in the deportation of their own people into what became the MAAFA - an African Holocaust....
Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union Government
2007-07-06, Issue 311
As part of the ongoing ‘Gender is My Agenda Campaign,’ aiming to mainstream gender in the African Union (AU), the women’s civil society networks have organized the 10th AU Pre-Summit Consultative meeting which was held in Accra, Ghana, on the 23rd an...
Diaspora Needs Voice in Africa Government
2007-07-06, Issue 311
The African diaspora needs a voice in the African Union and any future African unity government to reflect the influence it exercises across the world on the continent’s behalf, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said....
AU Adopts Accra Declaration to Plan Integration
Lavinia Mahlangu
2007-07-06, Issue 311
Timelines and the method for Africa’s integration are to be set out according to the Accra Declaration, adopted late on Tuesday night by the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union Heads of Summit....
World Bank Provides US$5.7b Grants, Loans to Africa
2007-07-06, Issue 311
The World Bank announced Monday that it provided a record US$5.7 billion in credits and grants to Sub-Saharan Africa in the fiscal year ending 30 June 2007, up from US$4.7 billion in fiscal 2006....
Africa: Africans want united Africa but many say 'too soon'
2007-06-27, Issue 310
From Cape Town to Algiers, many Africans welcome Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's plan for a United States of Africa with a strong voice on the global stage, but most say it simply comes too soon for a divided continent. Gaddafi, long regarded as a pa...
Africa: Gadaffi calls for African army of two million soldiers
2007-06-28, Issue 310
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said on Wednesday his plan for a United States of Africa should include creating a two million-strong army to staunch recurrent conflicts that have ravaged many of the continent's nations....
Africa: Ghanaians embrace discourse on unified Africa
Lavinia Mahlangu
2007-06-29, Issue 310
As African Union ambassadors on Tuesday conclude the first of three high level meetings on Africa's proposed integration, ordinary Ghanaians are actively involved in discussions on the matter. Over 60 years ago, late Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah ...
Launch of an African citizens passport
2007-06-25, Issue 310
Today, several civil society organisations issued an African citizens passport to the Ghanaian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon Nana Akuffo Addo in a pre-summit Continental Conference organised by the AU Ghanaian Civil Society Coalition. The passport ...
'In the Interest of Our Destiny'
Interview
Professor Atukwei Okai
2007-06-25, Issue 310
Interview with Professor Atukwei Okai conducted June 23, 2007 in Accra, Ghana following an address by the Professor to the 'Continental Conference on Accelerating Africa’s Integration and Development in the 21st century' organised by the Ghanaian Civil Society AU Coalition....
Beyond the presidential project to a public mandate
2007-06-25, Issue 310
Interview with Andiwo Obondoh, Christian Children’s Fund. Andiwo Obondoh is the Regional Adviser for Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) Africa, based in South Africa. In March, Emily Mghanga interviewed him on the upcoming Grand Debate on the Contine...
SOAWR: Policy brief on the Grand Debate
2007-06-25, Issue 310
The 9th Assembly of the African Union Heads of States and Governments will convene from 1-3 July 2007 in Accra, Ghana under the theme, ‘The Grand Debate on the Union Government.’ It is significant that the debate takes place nearly two years since th...
Civil society communiqué to the assembly of the heads of states
2007-06-25, Issue 310
Today, June 23, civil society organisations from across Africa met during the Continental Conference organised by the AU Ghanaian Civil Society Coalition. A communique entitled 'From a “grand debate” to grand actions for a united Africa' was adopted ...
Continental civil society conference
2007-06-25, Issue 310
The continental civil society conference on the proposed African Union Government, organised by the Ghanaian Civil Society AU Coalition, was held in Accra Ghana, June 22-22, 2007. 100 civil society organisations from 50 countries across Africa partic...
Open letter from CSOs to AU heads of state on Darfur
2007-06-25, Issue 310
We, the representatives of the undersigned civil society organisations from Darfur, are honoured to address your august assembly on the occasion of its 9th Ordinary Session. This session comes at a historic moment when Africa celebrates the golden ju...
Solidarity concert for Darfur
2007-06-25, Issue 310
Wednesday June 27, join Hugh Masekela - world acclaimed South African music legend in a Solidarity Concert on Darfur at the National Theatre, Accra. The event starts at 7pm....
United States of Africa papers launch
2007-06-25, Issue 310
The Direct Conflict Prevention Programme (DCP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)-Addis Ababa office would like to cordially invite you to the launch of seven research papers relating to the debate on the United States of Africa. The launch and buffet lunch will take place at the Alisa Hotel, in North Ridge, Accra, Ghana, on the 27 June 2007 at 12h00....
Civil society wants economic partnership agreement suspended
2007-06-25, Issue 310
The African Union -Civil Society Organisations Pre-Summit in Accra has ended with a call on member countries to resist pressure from European Union towards the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in December....
Pan African movement joins union government debate
2007-06-25, Issue 310
In response to the African Union’s invitation to the public to contribute to the ‘Grand Debate' on the formation of a union government for the continent, the Pan African People’s Assembly intends to hold a conference on June 22 at the National Theatre, Accra, where participants will deliberate on the subject matter....
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