[AU-Monitor] Actualising the United States of Africa and more

[Hakima Abbas]

Second African Financing For Development Conference to Convene in Ghana

Addis Ababa, 25 May (ECA) – The Government of Ghana in collaboration  
with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African  
Development Bank will convene a high-level conference on ‘Financing  
for Development’, in Accra, Ghana, on 30-31 May, under the theme  
“Infrastructure for Growth – The Energy Challenge”.

Participants will include African ministers of Finance as well as  
ministers of Energy and senior officials from the donor community.  
The main focus of the meeting will be directed at the energy sector,  
particularly its financing needs and how to maximise its contribution  
to the growth agenda required to meet the Millennium Development  
Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 target date.

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It Is Time To Make the Formal Organs of African Unity Work

By Eva Mwine - May 28, 2007

‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’. Almost a year ago,  
presidential jets assembled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The city’s five  
star hotels were filled to capacity and the per diem dollars filled  
the pockets of Africans on a ‘Mission to save Somalia.’

AMISOM was the grand acronym that wrapped up the noble intentions. It  
was agreed that the force should be 8,000 soldiers, but only 4,000  
were pledged at the summit. The rhetoric of unification, as always,  
was delivered with unquestionable conviction and the summit was  
flavoured with the re-invigorated spirit of pan-Africanism.

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www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/index.php/AUMONITOR/comments/ 
it_is_time_to_make_the_formal_organs_of_african_unity_work/


Actualising the United States of Africa Dream

28/05/2007 - Posted on the The Statesman- Ghana newspaper

President Kufuor, Chairman of the African Union, in concluding his  
Africa Day speech observed the following: “All these efforts will  
bear ready and abundant fruit only if we start with deepening the  
partnership arrangements among ourselves as Africans before we go out  
as a continent to access what others can bring to support our  
efforts.  Fortunately, there is a growing recognition among us today  
of the need to provide our union with a stronger continental  
machinery in order to work on agreed strategic areas of focus,  
including a common understanding of continental integration and the  
constraints against such an integration process.  We therefore look  
forward to the July 2007 Summit in Accra dedicated to the “Grand  
Debate on Union Government” which, hopefully, will help us identify  
the strategic goals, objectives and actions that will help our  
embattled continent to gain its rightful and dignified place in the  
globalised world.”

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actualising_the_united_states_of_africa_dream/


Thirty CSOs meet in Accra to Discuss Participation in AU Summit

Press release - Media Foundation for West Africa

About thirty civil society organisations from across Africa met in  
Accra at the SSNIT Guest House on May 18, to discuss plans for civil  
society participation in the upcoming African Union (AU) Summit to be  
held in Ghana.

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thirty_csos_meet_in_accra_to_discuss_participation_in_au_summit/


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