AU-Monitor: Issue 96, 2007

[Hakima Abbas]

ECOSOCC Credentials Committee Short List

The Credentials Committee of the Interim Economic Social and Cultural  
Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union met in Accra, Ghana, from  
17-20 June 2007, to shortlist eligible candidates for the forthcoming  
elections to the post-interim ECOSOCC Assembly.  A total of two  
hundred and eighteen (218) applications from African Civil Society  
Organizations (CSOs) in thirty-five (35) countries were received and  
examined.

Download the full report of the Credentials Committee meeting at  
www.aumonitor.org.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/292/


Whither the Voice of Women in the Grand Debate

by Roselynn Musa - When I first heard about it I asked myself a  
couple of questions which I did not get answers to. First I asked why  
it is qualified by the adjective, ‘grand’ when there is really  
nothing grand about it both in scope and in substance.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/291/


Conference of African Ministers in Charge of Integration

Kigali, 24 July 2007— 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 the Rwandan Prime Ministry and precedes the Conference of  
Ministers which will hold in the same venue from 26 to 27 July 2007.

Read more:
www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/290/


New Trade Deals

Gichinga Ndirangu (East African 24 July 2007) - 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-member ACP trading bloc will have on  
regional integration.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/289/


ECA and UNEP Collaborate on Costs of Climate Change

Addis Ababa, 23 July 2007 --- 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 economic costs of climate change and how to finance the  
transition to a low-carbon economy.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/288/


Africans Fear ‘Ruin’ in Europe Trade Talks

By Gumisai Mutume (Africa Renewal) - 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 possible impact of ongoing “free trade”  
negotiations between Europe and its former colonies in Africa, the  
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) are beginning to galvanize public debate  
in the region.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/287/


Banque Mondiale Prolonge Son Aide VIH/SIDA à Trois Pays

Ouagadougou, 19 juillet 2007 (PlusNews) - La Banque Mondiale a décidé  
de reconduire pour une année supplémentaire son Programme  
d’accélération des traitements (TAP) au Burkina Faso, au Ghana et au  
Mozambique, les trois pays bénéficiaires de ce projet contre le VIH/ 
SIDA.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/286/


Civil Society Advocates Further Liberalisation of AGOA

Joseph Coomson - Ghanaian Chronicle

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 extend the number  
products under AGOA for Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA).

Read more:
http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/comments/285/


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