This article examines the anti-corruption initiatives of the African Union (AU) and New Partnership for Africa_s Development (NEPAD) and analyses their effectiveness. It also explores the phenomenon of corruption in Africa more generally and follows with some recommendations on how to tackle it. The author concludes that the best role the AU and NEPAD can play to combat and prevent corruption in Africa is by complementing and strengthening grassroots and national measures and by promoting regional anti-corruption norms.

Two African leaders launched a public appeal Wednesday (November 16) for support to a global fund for community-based communication projects. President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria launched the appeal for increased funding for the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (GDSF). Few, however, attended the meeting they addressed. Obasanjo nevertheless made an earnest appeal for more. The fund "relies heavily on contributions by stakeholders," he said. "Contributions, no matter how small, will help."

En marge du 23ème Sommet Afrique France des Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernements prévules 3 et 4 décembre 2005

Organisé par : Coalition des Alternatives Africaines Dette et Développement (CAD- Mali)

Où : à Bamako
Quand : du 30 novembre au 4 décembre 2005

Partenaires associés:

Coté Africain : la RADDHO – Sénégal, le FNDP de la Côte d’Ivoire, le Mouvement Burkinabé des Droits de l’Hommes et des Peuples, la Ligue Tchadienne des Droits de l’Homme, la Ligue Togolaise des Droits de l’Homme, l’UIDH, RODADHD-Niger, FLAM-Mauritanie, Réseau Ouest Africain d’Alternatives au Développement (ROAD)

Coté français : l’Association Survie, Agir Ici, ATTAC (Groupe Afrique), CRID, CEDETIM-IPAM, Secours Catholique, CCFD, Peuples Solidaires, Fédération des Congolais de la diaspora, Terre des Hommes France

Tous ensemble pour exiger une autre coopération France Afrique privilégiant les aspirations citoyennes!

The passive acceptance of others’ peculiarities is not enough, stresses Kofi Annan. Diversity has forever characterized the human condition. Yet, mankind’s acceptance of it has been painfully lacking. This intolerance of the “other” remains a source of great and everyday
human suffering. If we hope to achieve peace in our young century, we must start respecting each other today -- as individuals who each have the right to define our own identity, and belong to the faith or culture of our choice; as individuals who know that we can cherish what we are, without hating what we are not.

Two reports were released recently that chart the rapid changes taking place in African ICT markets over the last year. The first looks at the rise of broadband access which has become increasingly available in Africa for the first time ever. The second report analyses the mobile handset market in one of the continent's largest markets, Nigeria and provides some useful pointers as to how that market will develop. Between 2001 when the first broadband access was rolled out and the present day, a wide range of both wireline and wireless broadband technologies have been deployed across Africa.