Transparency works both ways and it is for the company as well as thecountries — their people need to know and the more they know what is beingdone for their benefit, the more they will be supportive.” – NgoziOkonjo-Iweala, World Bank’s Managing Director
Ensuring transparency in the extractive sector has never been a realpriority of the state authorities of Ghana and commercial entities. As aresult, the operation of the sector remains insufficiently transparent. Ithas always been the truth that the failures of oil-producing economies arelegion and continuous. Ghana, considering recent developments, is becoming oblivious of the factthat success of oil is measured by poverty reduction rather than barrelsof oil produced or millions of dollars received from oil exports.
Law enforcement officers in the Southwest regional capital of Buea recently stormed and broke-off a meeting organized by the Cameroon National Patriotic Youth Front - CNPYF. The CNPYF were holding an annual seminar on Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurship. However, the capacity building seminar was short-lived following a few minutes to the opening ceremony in which armed police interrupted the meeting.
At the 24th meeting of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee, African leaders put the focus on programme delivery 29 January 2011, Addis Ababa – "The next decade provides the opportunity for better performance and results on the NEPAD agenda at the programmatic level. That will mean giving the NEPAD Agency the necessary means and resources to fully deliver," said Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia at the start of the 24th meeting of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC). "Now that the integration of NEPAD into the African Union (AU) structures and processes has materialised, with the establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency), a new dawn beckons to actualise the NEPAD vision," Zenawi said.
By Dr. Sloans Chimatiro, Senior Fisheries Advisor, NEPAD Agency,
The 29th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was concluded today at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy with calls from African members’ states for the immediate implementation of an agreement on the requirements that foreign fishing vessel must comply at fishing ports. This edition of the COFI engagements which has been in session since the 31st of January is aimed at reviewing the progress of FAO’s biennial programmes and the work-plans for the next biennium (2011-2013).
Is this a socialist moment? I hear this question when I travel. So here is the answer I usually give when asked at public meetings. It depends on how we understand a "socialist moment." If it means that the American people in their majority are insisting on a socialism transformation of society, there is little evidence for it. People are angry and frustrated; they want change; they are ready to struggle for jobs and relief, health care, public education, housing assistance and so on. But are they demanding a system change, a socialist society? Not yet. To say otherwise seems like a stretch to me. If, however, what is meant is that many more people are ready to give socialism a hearing, not reject it out of hand, then I would say, "Yes, this is a ‘socialist moment'." This is no small thing. It wasn't that long ago that socialism didn't have much currency among broad sections of the American people. It was considered a failed model, undemocratic and worse, a bankrupt idea - something best consigned to history.
L’Alliance mondiale pour une nutrition améliorée (GAIN) et le NEPAD ont signé un Protocole d’Accord qui contribuera de façon significative à la réduction de la malnutrition en Afrique. Cet Accord a été cosigné par Jay Naidoo, président du conseil d’administration de GAIN et le Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, DG de l’Agence de planification et de coordination du NEPAD. En Afrique, une personne sur quatre souffre de malnutrition, 25 % d’enfants souffrent de malnutrition et 40 % d’entre eux sont chétifs. 53 % de femmes enceintes en Afrique sont anémiques.
Patrice Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life&Times) [Paperback]; By Leo Zeilig
Lumumba was a great leader who emerged in the aftermath of the decolonization of Africa and a self-made man, an especially difficult proposition in the Belgian Congo. The author packs a lot in this short book, looking at Patrice Lumumba's early life, his political aspirations and eventual downfall. This book draws the reader in, makes them interested in the story and is generally enjoyable...The book describes the dynamism of Patrice Lumumba, who had such high hopes for the Congo and an excellent plan for its independence. Yet, as detailed throughout book, interest around the world had other plans. Moreover, the author describes the motivation of the Western world not to support Lumumuba's design for the development of Congo, they did not want threaten business inthe region. As a result, in 1960 the country almost disintegrated into civil war. More than that, the book displays how the lack of emphasis on the development of the Congo during its first year of colonial rule has served as the origin of strife in the country in the 21st Century.
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