Le Nouveau Partenariat pour le Développement de l’Afrique (NEPAD) et l’Université de l’Etat de Michigan (MSU) ont reçu aujourd’hui une subvention de 10.4 millions de dollars US de la fondation Bill et Melinda Gates. Ce financement d'une durée de cinq ans a été obtenu après une année de collaboration qui a conduit à la mise en place du Réseau africain d’Expertise en Biosécurité (ABNE) avec pour objectif de mettre à la disposition des Régulateurs africains les ressources scientifiques en Biosécurité.
Last week at the China-Africa Business Summit, businessmen discussed the lopsided trade relations between Africa and China. A New-York based consulting firm has proposed that China use African workers in its investment projects in Africa rather than importing Chinese workers. African businessmen have asked for more Chinese investment in health and school facilities for sustainable growth...More
The OAU Charter may have sounded impressive. But no one can dispute the contention that the organization failed spectacularly to live up to its expectations. Now comes the African Union with a scope and mandate far more ambitious than its predecessor ever envisioned. It aims at nothing less than an African replica of the European Union. It dreams of a continental parliament, a court of justice, a central bank and monetary union, a customs union and all the other bodies and institutions and treaties that can eventually lead to a sort of political union. A pipe dream? Measured against what the OAU never managed to achieve and the divergence to be found within Africa, one would be highly sceptical. Yet if Africa's leaders can get together and agree on the broad principles, then there should be no reason why progress cannot be made in the continent. But there must be the political will. It is all too easy for an annual summit to be dominated by high-sounding rhetoric about African unity, while nothing practical is being done.
Cameroon like most nation states in Sub-saharan Africa is engulfed in privatisation (the sale of government owned businesses to the private sector) frenzy as government increasingly pursue liberal market policies in a wild-goose chase for that elusive antidote required to uplift the monumental lower living standards and human welfare in the country and continent. No doubt therefore that the awarding of franchises to private firms to operate government facilities, the sale of public assets to the private sector, and the contracting out with private corporations to provide services has been headline news in Cameroon's tabloids. Cameroon's leading newspaper, the Herald, has recently carried a series of articles on the purported bogus privatisation of the Cameroon Tea Estates (CTE), an arm of the giant agro-industrial complex - the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC). This highlights the fierce debate within the academia, the corridors of government offices and in the campaign headquarters of politicians.
"Despite the existence of many parties in Cameroon, political inclusion is still not a reality in Cameroonian politics today......Though the government has created a National Election Observatory (NEO), which is supposed to be the election management body in Cameroon, the major aspects of election management such as voters registration and the update of voters’ lists are still handled by the ministry of territorial administration via its senior divisional officers, sub-divisional officers and local traditional chiefs."
"A healthy man is, above all, a man of this earth, and he must, therefore, only live the life of this earth for the sake of order and completeness. But as soon as he falls ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of his organism is disturbed, the possibility of another world begins to become more apparent, and the more ill he is, the more closely does he come into touch with the other world." ---- Dostoyersky crime and Punishment
The African continent, is one of the most richly endowed continents. Our beloved continent was invaded by colonialists who perpetrated the most cruel crimes ever committed against humanity - Slavery and Colonization. Today the continent is ravaged by disease, a huge debt burden, conflict, and poverty, all after effects and remnants of this imperialism and barbarism. In 2001, African leaders reached agreement on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). In October 2001, NEPAD made an appeal to the peoples of Africa in all their diversity to become aware of the seriousness of the situation, and the need to mobilize them selves in order to put an end to the further marginalisation of the continent, and ensure its development. It is for this reason that I chose to theme this essay - The Role Of Africans Abroad And Friends of Africa In Promoting African Dignity.
It is trite that the idea of civil liberties, individual rights or fundamental human rights, emanate from an immemorial concept of ‘natural justice’. The concept of human rights and civil liberties is a widely acknowledged truism, which is currently being enshrined in the Constitutions or laws of most modern and developing nations. It also finds a strong following and advocacy in international bodies such as the United Nations Organisation. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights appears to effectively paint a clear picture of what are the widely accepted precepts and standards for observing human rights and civil liberties. In order to look forward on how the notions of human rights and civil liberties could effectively be applied and enforced in Cameroon, it would only be proper to appreciate what has been done in the past.
Translation by Susan Ouriou. Toronto: McArthur & Company.2008.223 PP. Paper $18.95. ISBN 978-1-55278-734-2
By Peter Wuteh Vakunta (Reviewer)
Fidelity doesn’t make the News is Susan Ouriou’s first translation of Bismuth’sfiction.She translated her second book titled Scrapbook (novel) published in 2008 by McArthur & Company. Her third book, Etes-vous mariée à un psychopathe? Nouvelles (2009) has not been translated yet. With the publication ofLes gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvellesBismuth emerged as abudding Canadianwriter noted for her innovative use of the French language. This compendium of short stories is a powerful depiction ofCanadianpsycho-sociological realities.Her stories are a snapshot of the morals, imagination, and sensibilities of the life and times of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
US economic power is declining due to the current financial crisis. "Dollarization" does not reign anymore. On the contrary, Gulf oil producers and countries such as China, Russia, Japan and France are planning to end dollar-based oil deals. Key-finance ministers have reportedly decided that "a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, along with gold and a new global reserve currency," will replace the dollar. China, which imports a lot of oil from the Middle East, might have serious conflicts with the US over this issue...More
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