Building sustainable democracy in Africa is a priority under the auspices of Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, thus, capacity building is relevant for this priority policy area. The African Diaspora Policy Center has published a paper which emphasizes the need for active participation of African diaspora in Europe to promote democracy building in Africa and ensure that the deliverables under the JAES are achieved through feasible interventions and realisable actions.
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A panel discussion on Africa-EU relations was organized by the Fredrich Ebert Foundation on the 8th July 2009. This summary was written by Dolly Afun-Ogidan, Research Intern at ECDPM and co-editor of the www.europafrica.net website.
All Africa reports that at the on-going G8 summit, leaders of the world’s biggest industrialized nations have promised to boost development assistance to Africa by U.S. $25 billion a year over 2004 levels by 2010.
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President Barroso will represent the European Commission at the ongoing G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy from 8-10 July 2009. G8 leaders will notably address the global economy, including trade, climate change and energy, Africa/development and food security.
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To deal with the issue of the transformation of the AU Commission into an Authority, heads of State and government of the African Union asked the executive council to meet in emergency to adopt only one text, instead of two texts were proposed to them.
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