African Union Summit - Maputo July 2003

ENVIRONMENT: Illegal Trade in Harmful Substances Damaging the Ozone Layer

The growing illegal trade in chlorofluorocarbons is undermining efforts to protect the ozone layer, campaigners have warned.

DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Four Road Maps for the Continent’s Future

A ground-breaking study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has sought to predict what life in Africa could be like by 2025.

ECONOMY-AFRICA: Lula, Mbeki Speak Out Against Trade Protectionism

South Africa and Brazil came out guns blazing against global trade protectionism and also against the continued administration of Iraq by U.S. forces when Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ended a visit here at the weekend.

POLITICS: Regional Powers South Africa, India Forge Closer Relations

This week South African president Thabo Mbeki paid a high-profile state visit to India when he took along 11 cabinet ministers to bolster a relationship increasingly important for the country's South-South diplomacy.

DEVELOPMENT: Wars Kill Hope for African Recovery Plan – U.N.

A major homegrown economic plan aimed at lifting Africa out of poverty is being stifled by a rash of unresolved political and economic problems, including new military conflicts, the United Nations heard this week.

DEVELOPMENT: Summit Zeroes in on Keeping World Attention on Africa

Against a backdrop of donor fatigue and a deadlock on trade between rich and poor countries, African leaders at a summit here renewed a pledge to keep the world's attention on a continent that is grappling with wars and famine, but also faces new opportunities ahead.

DEVELOPMENT: EU Takes Advantage of Africa’s Weakness to Impose Conditions

The European Union is taking advantage of Africa's weak bargaining power to bloat the list of conditions - attached to development aid - with further demands.

DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Leaders Appeal for Talks Not War

If Africa is to advance economically and socially, sincere dialoguing must replace armed conflict, strikes and dirty politics, delegates at a heads of state summit held in Swaziland this week agreed.

/WTO-CANCUN/AFRICA: Farm Subsidies High On the Agenda

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa could earn about two billion U.S. dollars more every year if industrialised countries dropped their trade-distorting agricultural policies and opened their markets to goods from the developing world, says the International Food Policy Research Institute.

POLITICS-LIBERIA: Taylor Resigns, Flies into Exile in Nigeria

Embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor ceded power to his deputy, Moses Blah, on Monday and flew into exile in Nigeria, 14 years after leading a rebellion that triggered a bloody civil war which spilled over into Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire.

POLITICS: New AU Chief, Konare, is Africa’s Alpha

The big men of Africa, its heads of state, dominated Mozambique's port city of Maputo last week as their cavalcades careened through the small city's roads.

POLITICS: African Union Silent on Zimbabwe

While the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe is one of the conflicts that captured the attention of United States President George Bush during his trip to Africa, the African Union (AU) is officially silent on that country.

HEALTH: Annan Urges African Gov’ts to Double their Budgets to Fight AIDS

Almost as common as national flags at the African Union summit in Maputo, Mozambique, is the red ribbon symbol of the anti-HIV/AIDS campaign.

POPULATION: African Union Courts Africans in Diaspora

Through the centuries, Africa's story has been one of outward migration - from the era of slavery to the present era of migration where hardship and a lack of opportunity have seen many people from the continent seek their better lives elsewhere.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa Urged to do More to Reduce Poverty

African leaders are beginning to sharply focus their attention on finding ways the New Partnership for Africa's Development - a programme to kick-start the development of the continent - can improve the daily lives of their people.

POLITICS: African Union to Clip the Wings of Rebel Groups, Errant Gov’ts

African leaders are becoming increasingly determined to crack-down on the rebel groups and errant governments whose relentless conflicts are hampering the development of the continent.

POLITICS-AFRICA: Gender Dinosaurs At AU Conference

-Womens rights in Africa took several leaps forward when the African Union's executive council insisted that equal gender representation to its governing structure would not be diluted.

POLITICS-AFRICA: South Africa Exerts its Muscles

There is a behind-the-scenes tussle between South Africa and African Union for control of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

POLITICS-AFRICA: Caught Between A Rock And Hard Place

South African President Thabo Mbeki hands over the reins of his year-long chairmanship of the African Union (AU) in Maputo this week to President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique.

POLITICS: Donor Funding Still Needed to Get the African Union Up, Running

The operating costs of the African Union are expected to reach as much as 100 million U.S. dollars a year, once all its structures are up and running.

DEVELOPMENT: African Ministers Oppose New Issues in Cancun

-African Union ministers of trade have called on the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in September to focus on developmental concerns in the existing agreements and not to start negotiations for new agreements.

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