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Ten African countries - including the East African bloc of Kenya, Tanazania and Rwanda - signed an agreement to take the environment into account when developing national economies and corporate practices. Uganda is conspicuously absent from this agreement, dubbed the Gaborone Declaration. An article on Mongabay talks about the intentions of the pact: The Gaborone [...]
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Does anybody have any information to support the recent claim by Antoine Roger Lokongo in Pambazuka News that: "Britain, America and the European Union are now caught red-handed and cannot claim not to be aware of the plot (of annexing eastern Congo to Rwanda and Uganda, encouraged by the Sudanese experience) that is being weaved [...]
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Contact:Ladybrille MagazinePublic Relationspr@ladybrille.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESacramento, CA (June 15th, 2012)- Pearlena Igbokwe, a Television executive with almost two decades of experience at... Visit us for the full story! Also be sure to check Ladybrille Magazine at http://ladybrillemag.com for stories on Africa fashion,film, music and the arts!
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from: http://www.ecdpm-talkingpoints.org/eu-support-to-regional-integration-between-cuts-and-unfailing%E2%80%99-commitment/
June 15, 2012
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OVERVIEW OF THE CHARLOTTE AFRICA INITIATIVE The inaugural Charlotte Africa Business Week (CABW) ended with the activation of several projects and alliances. We are thankful for all the collaborators and participants. CABW launched the Charlotte Africa Initiative (CAI), which is being spearheaded by both UNCC and Conceptualee. We are working on the formation of a memorandum of understanding that will see the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the continental umbrella organization for... [[Click title to access full text.]]
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There's been a flurry of coverage on the crisis in DRC this week (see especially Melanie Gouby's excellent Le Figaro piece on M23's motives. Lots of people are writing about M23, but Gouby actually went to Kavumu to talk to them.). One analysis that seems to have escaped much media attention was the Monday release of an open letter to the UN Security Council from International Crisis Group President and CEO Louise Arbour on the status of Congo's UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO. The mission is up for renewal, and Arbour raises several serious concerns about the mission's status, its ability to protect civilians, and its neutrality:
MONUSCO has lost credibility on several fronts and urgently needs to reorient its efforts.
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There's been a flurry of coverage on the crisis in DRC this week (see especially Melanie Gouby's excellent Le Figaro piece on M23's motives. Lots of people are writing about M23, but Gouby actually went to Kavumu to talk to them.). One analysis that seems to have escaped much media attention was the Monday release of an open letter to the UN Security Council from International Crisis Group President and CEO Louise Arbour on the status of Congo's UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO. The mission is up for renewal, and Arbour raises several serious concerns about the mission's status, its ability to protect civilians, and its neutrality:
MONUSCO has lost credibility on several fronts and urgently needs to reorient its efforts.
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