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Congo-Kinshasa: New Evidence Shows U.S. Role in Congo's Decision to Send Patrice Lumumba to His Death
AllAfrica | EU-Africa | Top News 01 08 2010
EU gives Pakistan 30 million euros in humanitarian aid
EU Business | Headlines 31 07 2010
South Africa: Swiss Confederation Seal Energy Agreement
AllAfrica | EU-Africa | Top News 31 07 2010
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EU Observer / News
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US missile defence early warning site to be built in Czech Republic
30 07 2010


Berlusconi risks early elections after breakup with former ally
30 07 2010


Berlin angered by German commissioner's absence during coal subsidies decision
30 07 2010


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Euforic / EU-Africa
Euforic: on the future of EU-Africa relations - current issues, food for thought, background information
EADI Masterclass: Introduction To Climate Change and Its Development Implications
08 03 2010 2010/03 - EADI: Developing countries are expected to be most severely affected by the impacts of climate change.
EADI Masterclass: Implementing Paris Declaration
01 03 2010 2010/02 - EADI -
Joining EU and US policy towards Eritrea and the Horn of Africa for the promotion of democracy and human rights: conference concluding statement
17 11 2009 2009/11 - EEPA
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AllAfrica / EU-Africa / Top News
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
Congo-Kinshasa: New Evidence Shows U.S. Role in Congo's Decision to Send Patrice Lumumba to His Death
01 08 2010 Fifty years ago, the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Less than seven months later, Lumumba and two colleagues were, in the contemporary idiom, "rendered" to their Belgian-backed secessionist enemies, who tortured them before putting them before a firing squad. The Congo would not hold another democratic election for 46 years. In 2002, following an extensive parliamentary inquiry, the Belgian government assumed a portion of responsibility for Lumumba's murder.
South Africa: Swiss Confederation Seal Energy Agreement
31 07 2010 South Africa and the Swiss Confederation have signed an energy efficiency agreement which will see a major boost to the country's climate mitigation programme.
Namibia: Brave Gladiators in Germany for 2010 Women's World Cup
30 07 2010 The Namibia national women football team, the Brave Gladiators is currently on a two-week training camp in Germany.
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Euforic / ACP cooperation
Euforic acp-eu cooperation - current issues, food for thought, background information
Carlos Closa on Institutional Innovation in the EU
28 06 2010 "Herman Van Rompuy’s incumbency is likely to define the future content and scope of the position of President of the European Council." (16.03.2010 - real instituto elcano)
Second revision of the Cotonou Agreement signed
28 06 2010 25.06.2010 - ECDPM Weekly Compass
EADI Masterclass: Practical Implications Of The Lisbon Treaty And New EU Foreign Service For Development Cooperation, 25.06.2010, Bonn
26 03 2010 23.03.2010 - EADI Masterclass
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CTA / Brussels office / Web log
information on key ACP-EU programmes and events from Brussels relevant to agriculture and rural development in ACP countries.
European financial markets chief pledges Africa protection
30 07 2010 Europe’s top internal markets official, Michel Barnier, has pledged to institute special measures to protect African countries from speculation, which is responsible for the fall in key commodity prices and the rise in food prices. Speaking on his second visit to the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Barnier said he was taking steps aimed at ensuring full transparency in the international markets to protect African producers.
Financing Agriculture
30 07 2010 The 20th Brussels Development Briefing will be on ‘Financing agriculture and will take place on the 15th of  September 2010. As an input to the UN Summit on MDGs to be held in New York on 22-26 September 2010, we will discuss issues related  to financing development in the context of agriculture and rural development. This will include issue such as Aid and ODA, taxation (Domestic tax revenues), private investment (new donors), revenue generation. Speakers include: Centre for Environmental Policy at  Imperial College in London, the  Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa in the US, CONCORD, OECD, African Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, YARA, African regional framers organizations.
For more information please contact: lopes@cta.int or boto@cta.int
Land access, land acquisitions and rural development
30 07 2010 Land is an asset of enormous importance for billions of rural dwellers in the developing world, and especially in ACP countries. The nature of property rights and their degree of security vary greatly, depending on competition for land, the degree of market penetration and the broader institutional and political context.
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IPS / Europe / News
Inter Press Service is a global news agency producing independent news and analysis of events affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations especially in the south
GREECE: Society Begins to Crack Under Harsh Measures
30 07 2010 Every working day, more than a hundred people crowd around the entrance of the merchant and passenger boats' reconstruction industry, well known as 'The Zone', in the southern suburb of Attiki.
MIGRATION-PORTUGAL: On the Football Pitch, Everyone Is Equal
29 07 2010 Football functions on so many levels. It can be big business, moving astronomical quantities of cash, with obscene salaries for owners, coaches and star players. And it can be a widely played sport, found in every park, street or vacant lot. And it can be the common ground for multicultural coexistence.
TRADE: Malawi Stands Firm on Conditions for Signing EPA
29 07 2010 The Malawian government has again stood firm in the face of calls by the European Union (EU) to sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) -- even after top-level EU officials visited the southern Africa to convince it to put pen to paper.
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EU Business / Headlines
EU gives Pakistan 30 million euros in humanitarian aid
31 07 2010 The European Commission said Saturday it had given 30 million euros in humanitarian aid to help the most needy in Pakistan, including those hit by flooding that has killed at least 800 people.
Sweden calls on European Commision to act on Roma rights
31 07 2010 Sweden's government Friday called for the European Commission to act on the rights of Europe's Roma community, saying their situation was "alarming".
EU regrets delay in adopting Bosnia's census legislation
30 07 2010 EU envoys to Bosnia on Friday expressed "deep regret" over aparliamentary session boycott by the main Serb party which has delayedadoption of a law on the country's first postwar census.
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CTA / Brussels briefings
Presentation by Philippe Mikos, Head of Unity on Rural Development, DG Development, European Commission - at 15th Briefing session of “From Global Food Crisis to Local Food Insecurity” (video)
01 06 2010 2010/01 - Brussels Development Briefings -
16th Brussels Development Briefing on “Population growth and its implications for ACP rural development"
01 06 2010 27th January 2010 - Brussels Development Briefings
17th Brussels Development Briefing on “Biodiversity and Rural Development in ACP countries”
01 06 2010 15.02.2010 - Brussels Development Briefings -
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