Continental African Briefing Volume 1, No. 7

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Continental African Briefing Volume 1, No. 7	December 20, 2004

AFRICA IN BRIEF

Politics

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EYE ON AFRICA: THE U.N. MATTERS It's time for Kofi Annan to step down," Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn., wrote in the Dec. 1 Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Annan was at the helm of the U.N. for all but a few days of the Oil-for-Food program, and he must, therefore, be held accountable for the U.N.'s utter failure to detect or stop Saddam's abuses...
Source: UPI
Related books: Africa and the International System : The Politics of State Survival , by Christopher Clapham
 more in Politics...

Conflict and Security

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LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE: REBUILDING FAILED STATES The interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone are failing to produce states that will be stable and capable of exercising the full range of sovereign responsibilities on behalf of their long-suffering populations...
Source: ICG 
Related books: Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, by Adekeye Adebajo
 more in Conflict and Security...

Economy, Business, & Finance

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NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK OPENS IN FREETOWN As efforts to rebuild war-torn Sierra Leone intensifies, well-meaning development partners from all over the world are doing their best to be part of these rebuilding efforts, government news agency reported...
Source: The Progress
Related books: Banking in Africa: The Impact of Financial Sector Reform Since Independence, by Martin Brownbridge
 more in Economy, Business, & Finance...

Sustainable Development

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GREATER INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Greater investment in agriculture and rural development is essential to spur economic growth in developing countries and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today on the 40th anniversary of its Investment Centre, established in 1964 in partnership with the World Bank to increase support t...
Source: FAO
Related books: Tropical Soils: Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture , by A. S. R. Juo
 more in Sustainable Development...

Human Rights

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CONCERN ABOUT IMMINENT GRAVE SETBACK FOR FREE _expression_ IN AFRICA Reporters Without Borders wrote to Gambian President Yayah Jammeh today urging him not to sign into law two bills recently approved by the national assembly, one making all press offences punishable by imprisonment, the other increasing the cost of a newspaper licence fivefold...
Source: IFEX
Related books: Media and Democracy in Africa, by Goran Hyden
 more in Human Rights...

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UP COMING EVENTS

Third International Conference on Computer Science, Software It brings together computer scientists and engineers, computer developers and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, research results and research-inprogress about all aspects of computer science, information technology and their applications...
Date: Dec 27, 2004
Organization: Housing and Building Research Center

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Second International Conference on Secure Communication and the Internet The National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Egypt is organizing the second conference on "Secure Communication and the Internet". The conference theme is "Threats and Challenges in an open Environment".
Date: Dec 27, 2004
Organization: National Telecommunication Institute

  BOOKS AND RESOURCES 

Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies
Author: by Ernesto Sirolli

Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa
Author: Alex de Waal

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