Le travaux du septième sommet de l'Union africaine auront lieu du 1er au 2 juillet 2006 à Banjul (Gambie) où les dirigeants africains vont discuter de plusieurs sujets dont le retrait de la mission africaine (Ua) au Darfour, les élections en République Démocratique du Congo, l'immigration clandestine et le sort de l'ancien président tchadien Hissène read more...

Calling the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights "a landmark achievement in the region for the region," United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour commemorated the 25th anniversary of its adoption, as other UN and African officials honoured the text on the continent itself.

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By Lavinia Mahlangu

Pretoria- The upcoming 7th Summit of African Union (AU) Heads of State in Gambia, is to focus on regional economies and integration, says Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad.

The theme of the summit is "Rationalisation of Regional Economic Communities and Regional Integration".

"...South read more...

Nairobi - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, under fire for a series of major graft scandals, said on Tuesday he welcomed an African Union assessment of his three-year-old government due to be released this week.

Despite previous bitter complaints about the peer review process, including an as-yet-unresolved lawsuit over access to government read more...

DAKAR, 27 June (IRIN) - Given China's growing hunger for natural resources and Africa's persistent need for economic aid, the world's most populous country and the globe's poorest continent appear to be nurturing a perfect symbiotic relationship.

Or is it?

China has dubbed 2006 the "Year of Africa." Chinese Premier Wen read more...

Nairobi, 27 June - Poverty in Africa can be made history if the region’s wealth of natural resources is effectively, fairly and sustainably harnessed a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says.

Outstanding issues like rapid rates of deforestation, high levels of land degradation, wasteful water use in agriculture read more...

Nairobi, le 27 juin 2006 – La pauvreté pourrait disparaître à jamais du continent africain si les richesses en ressources naturelles de la région étaient exploitées de manière efficace, équitable et durable, affirme un nouveau rapport du Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement (PNUE).

Cependant, quelques problèmes non résolus read more...

Désignée par les chefs d'Etat africains pour être la première personnalité à présider aux destinés du Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs, Maep, la Sénégalaise Angélique Savane est une figure politique de proue en Afrique.

De main de maître, elle a guidé les premiers pas de cet instrument qui permet aux pays du continent de read more...

AFRICAN Union (AU) Commission chairman Alpha Oumar Konare has called for a vast expansion in AU powers to achieve the long-term goal of a “united states of Africa”.

Speaking at the University of SA (Unisa) at the weekend, Konare laid out his vision for an AU that could formulate regulations for all countries on the continent and to which read more...

By Thapelo Sakoana

Pretoria - Africa needs to accelerate the pace of integration across all spectrums if it is to successfully address its challenges.

This was said by the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Professor Alpha Omar Konare yesterday in his public lecture at the University of South Africa (UNISA) read more...

by Eshete Asefa

Ahead of the African Union summit in Accra, Civil Society, Parliamentarians and media representatives of 19 African countries, including Ethiopia were in Libya, Tripoli to attend a meeting called by Muammar Al-Ghaddafi who is lobbying for the formation of a union government of Africa.

Ghaddafi, who for read more...

Press Release

The Coordinating Committee set up by the Government of The Gambia
to oversee the African Union (AU) Summit has barred civil society
organizations on the continent from holding a forum on freedom of
expression in the country. The forum was scheduled to take place
in Banjul, the capital, on June read more...

Prof Adebayo Adedeji, Eminent member of the APR Panel, led a Country Support Mission to Tanzania from 6-8 June 2006, consisting of experts from APRM strategic partner institutions and officials from the APRM Secretariat.

In discussions with the various dignitaries and stakeholders, Professor Adedeji provided an update of the continental read more...

Le Prof. Adebayo Adedeji, membre du Groupe de Personnes éminentes du MAEP, a conduit une mission de soutien en Tanzanie, du 6 au 8 juin 2006, composée d’experts des institutions partenaires stratégiques du MAEP et de fonctionnaires du Secrétariat du MAEP.

Dans les discussions avec les différents dignitaires et partenaires, le Professeur read more...

Le réseau des jeunes Africains pour le Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (Nepad) a officiellement débuté ses activités vendredi 9 juin à l'Université de Ouagadougou.

Promouvoir le Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (Nepad) auprès de la jeunesse burkinabè, tel est l'objectif du Réseau des jeunes read more...

Statement on Freedom of Expression in Africa
Lagos, Nigeria, June 13, 2006

On June 12 to 13, 2006, the Coordinating Group of the Network of African Freedom of Expression Organizations (NAFEO) met in Lagos to deliberate on:

a. media freedom and freedom of expression in Africa
b. ways of strengthening organizations read more...

Brazzaville - Ministers from across Africa have approved a draft charter on democracy that lays down guidelines on elections and good governance.

A two-day meeting concluded with unanimous agreement on the draft document in Congo's capital on Saturday. The draft is to be put to an African Union heads of state meeting in Gambia on July read more...

Des ministres africains en charge des questions électorales ont adopté samedi dernier à Brazzaville un projet de charte africaine pour la démocratie, les élections et la gouvernance en vue de renforcer la démocratie dans le continent, a appris GABONEWS.

La charte engagera les Etats signataires à appliquer les principes universels de la read more...

THE East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has endorsed the budget to run the affairs of the East African Community (EAC) and its Arusha based secretariat, for the next fiscal year. The new budget for 2006-07 now amounts to US$21million and was approved after intense debate.

The budget which is said to be the first of its kind to be read more...

The first of several individuals to be convicted of crimes related to Liberia's brutal civil war is the Dutch business magnate Gus van Kouwenhoven.

A Dutch court yesterday found the 63-year old timber merchant guilty of breaking a UN arms embargo on Liberia.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison but was acquitted of read more...

The special courts established by the Sudanese government to deal with atrocities committed in Darfur have failed to bring justice to the region's victims of war crimes, the international watchdog Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.

"The cases before the court so far involve ordinary crimes, like theft and receiving read more...

Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa says Nepad must play a central role in the relationship the continent is seeking to establish with emerging economic giants, China and India.

Addressing the World Economic Forum Africa Summit in Cape Town today, Mr Mpahlwa urged African countries to ensure their relationship with these emerging read more...

The Africa Leadership Forum(ALF) has said that the two-day technical workshop organized for some lawmakers and staff of the national and state assemblies in Ota, Ogun State last week was aimed at sensitizing them on the goals of the African Peer Review Mechanisms, a self-monitoring mechanism of the New Partnership for Africa's development(NEPAD).
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been in existence for 31 years.

However, participation over the years has been mainly at the level of officialdom, leaving out the greater proportion of the population whom the integration process affects.

Initiatives are needed to complement government's efforts read more...

L'initiative du Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs (MAEP) du Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (NEPAD) connaît toujours du retard dans sa concrétisation, déplorent des experts impliqués dans ce processus.

A cet égard, les experts du MAEP saluent la volonté politique du Ghana et du Rwanda qui sont les deux read more...

The Mozambican government has set up a National Forum for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the means by which the African Union hopes to ensure good governance among its member states.

The individuals invited to form part of the National Forum were called to a meeting in Maputo on Friday to inform them of their new responsibilities. read more...

African development initiatives stress private sector involvement. Dr Bamanga Tukur, Executive President, African Business Roundtable, and Chairman, NEPAD Business Group, believes NEPAD’s Infrastructure Investment Facility (NIIF) can get large-scale projects moving

To reach the Millennium Development Goals, Africa needs economic growth read more...

Les initiatives de développement africains mettent l’accent sur l’engagement du secteur privé. Le Dr Bamanga Tukur, Président exécutif, African Business Roundtable, et Président, Groupe d’Hommes d’Affaires du NEPAD, estime que le Service du NEPAD pour l’investissement en infrastructure (NIIF) a la capacité de mettre en marche des projets à grande échelle read more...

ADDIS ABABA, 25 May (IRIN) - A panel of African lawyers has ended three days of closed-door talks to decide whether and how former Chadian president Hissene Habre should be tried for alleged crimes during his time in office from 1982 to 1990.

The seven lawyers were appointed by the African Union to discuss "all possible options" on Habre's read more...

Recent findings from Afrobarometer surveys in up to 18 African countries indicate that:

• Popular support for the principle of democracy is down slightly, but remains high.

• Satisfaction with democracy, however, is declining sharply, driven especially by rapid declines in Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Namibia would have little trouble meeting the requirements of the African Union's African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), but the government has chosen to wait and join later for the right reasons.

The APRM was developed to ensure that the policies and practices of participating states conformed to a set of agreed political, social, economic, read more...

Lucas Barasa

Kenya's self-assessment report on governance will be tabled before African Union Heads of State in Banjul, Gambia, next month.

The leaders will review the report and give their verdict, said Mr Bethuel Kiplagat, the chairman of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) committee of eminent persons.

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by Ochieng' Oreyo

A media office will be created under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad).

The office is aimed at opening up Nepad activities to the people, an African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) official Bethwel Kiplagat has said. Kiplagat, who chairs the APRM Eminent Persons committee, said the decision read more...

Président Paul Kagame du Rwanda« Mettre en œuvre le MAEP : défis et opportunités ». Voici le thème du sixième Forum sur la gouvernance en Afrique tenu le 9 mai 2006 à Kigali, Rwanda. Y ont assisté un groupe éminent de ministres africains, l’ambassadeur Betheul Kiplagat, président du Mécanisme Africain d'Évaluation par les Pairs et son groupe d’Éminentes read more...

by Pegue Manga

The New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD, is a lofty concept that was borne by the African Union, AU.But despite its cardinal principles of democracy, transparency, accountability, integrity and respect for human rights, NEPAD remains arcane to many people in Cameroon, especially the grassroots population.
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by Pegue Manga

The New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD, is a lofty concept that was borne by the African Union, AU.But despite its cardinal principles of democracy, transparency, accountability, integrity and respect for human rights, NEPAD remains arcane to many people in Cameroon, especially the grassroots population.
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Evaluer la gouvernance en Afrique

Quelque 300 représentants d'une trentaine de pays africains se sont réunis à Kigali, la capitale rwandaise, du 9 au 11 mai dernier pour prendre part au 6ème forum africain sur la gouvernance, dont le thème cette année était " la mise en application du Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs : défis read more...

Sans prévenir les autorités rwandaises, la délégation officielle du Cameroun qui devait être conduite par le ministre de l'Eau et de l'énergie, par ailleurs chargé de mission à la présidence de la République et point focal du Nepad au Cameroun, Justin Ndioro a opté pour la chaise vide au sommet de Kigali.

Difficile de faire un pas sur read more...

Membre du panel des 7 personnalités éminentes du Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs, l'actuel recteur de l'Université de Yaoundé I a été aperçu dans plusieurs ateliers et autres cadres d'échanges organisés au forum africain sur la gouvernance à Kigali. Elle revient ici sur les objectifs et le mode de fonctionnement de ce Mécanisme. De même read more...

Petition to the Commission of the African Union

H.E. Professor Alpha Oumar Konare,
Chairperson of The Commission
Of The African Union,
African Union Headquarters,
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

17 May 2006

Your Excellency

African Civil Society Participation in the African read more...

Lesotho becomes the latest African country to begin a peer review process, an African Union (AU) initiative aimed at improving governance and accountability.

Seven Southern African countries are among the 25 that have signed up for assessment under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a voluntary exercise intended to help countries read more...

by James Munyaneza

A new UN report showing how far African countries are from realizing their declared intention of embracing good governance practices paints a bleak picture of the continent's performance.

The report by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) cites continued violation of people's rights, corruption, read more...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame“Implementing the APRM: Challenges and Opportunities”. That was the theme of the sixth African Governance Forum held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 9 May 2006. It was attended by a distinguished gathering of African Ministers, Ambassador Betheul Kiplagat, the African Peer Review chairperson and his team of Eminent Persons, Mr. Gilbert read more...

Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem

Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem visits a Pan African Parliament session in
South Africa and reports back on the progress of one of the African
Union’s most important institutions. After two years of existence,
the PAP is making progress, although teething problems remain.


The Pan read more...

Une quinzaine de journalistes, dont un correspondant de la Pana au Rwanda, ont été bloqués mardi par les services de sécurité et de renseignements rwandais devant les portes de la salle où se tient le sixième forum de l'initiative de Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs du Nepad. C'est du moins ce qu'indique une dépêche de l'agence angolaise read more...

Dans l'entretien que nous a accordé Cheikh Modibo Diarra, chef du département Afrique de Microsoft, il explique sa passion et ses ambitions pour l'Afrique.

Certains déplorent le manque d'initiative des Africains pour caractériser la situation du continent. Etes-vous de cet avis ?

Il faut faire la part des choses. Une fois, read more...

Kigali, 11 mai 2006: Le Sixième Forum Africain sur la Gouvernance a été clôturée aujourd’hui à Kigali par un dialogue entre les présidents Paul Kagame du Rwanda et Blaise Compaoré du Burkina Faso et les délégués qui ont réaffirmé l’appropriation, gestion et leadership du Mécanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP) par les africains eux -mêmes read more...

Kigali, Rwanda, 11 May , 2006 – The Sixth Africa Governance Forum ended here today with a dialogue between President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and delegates , who reaffirmed African ownership, management and leadership of the African Peer Review Mechanism while recommending key improvements .

“The read more...

A severe shortage of cash may prevent the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) from holding its next sittings planned for October, officials said on Thursday.

The parliament housed by South Africa is one of several agencies set up by the 53-member African Union as part of its efforts to forge closer unity on the continent.

Parliament read more...

by Patson Phiri

Africa's effort to accelerate development through increased Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) has gained momentum with the formation of the NEPAD e-Africa Youth Programme that is intended to generate awareness on information society.

Participants from various African countries gathered in Johannesburg, read more...