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Discussions in the EDD session on Citizens at the heart of the Africa-EU Partnership have shown the rich diversity of ways citizens can be – and have already been – involved in a partnership between Africa and Europe. This has raised questions on how best to organize the role of citizens in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy
(JAES).
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China’s foreign minister stressed his country’s commitment to Africa’s development Monday at the end of a China-Africa summit in which Beijing pledged $10 billion in loans and countered criticism it was plundering the continent’s resources.
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The Development Policy Forum roundtable will take place on the 1st of December 2009 in Brussels and will primarily focus on the development-security nexus and whether international actors can agree on a framework to address the complex structural causes of insecurity.
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The workshop ” The implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the ACP Group ” was jointly organized by the ACP Secretariat and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) at the ACP House on the 16th of October 2009 and was held under Chatham house rules. Most of the ACP Ambassadors where present or represented at the meeting.
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China may come up with new measures to help African countries at the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the Chinese ambassador to Liberia has disclosed.
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