To many discerning adults, the recent African Union meeting in Accra (1st – 3rd July 2007) was a sullen splendour of sadness and another opportunity gone.
Long, long, long ago - long before Leonardo da Vinci of Italy flew the first air craft from a mountain top and crushed in a valley and got hurt badly, the legendary African Lizard had fallen off the tallest tree in the world and crushed on the ground without being hurt at all!
Speakers at the launch of Africa Development Indicator for 2007 have called on the World Bank to consult Africa's statisticians and policy makers in their analysis In order to that they would know where the continent fell short. That would enable them make the necessary corrections to bring improvements in their economies.
President John Agyekum Kufuor on yesterday made a clarion call to trade unions in Africa to close their ranks and form strategic partnership among themselves in order to be better placed to tackle the challenges faced by working people and the competitive demands of the global world.
The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has blamed Africa's slow pace of development and poor economic conditions on the neglect and abandonment of the continent's culture and traditional heritage of the people in its governance and development process.
A new Pan-African Trade Unions Organisation would be formed today in Accra following the dissolution of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Africa Regional Organisation (AFRO), the Democratic Organisation of African Workers Trade Unions (DOAWTU) and other independent trade unions on the continent.
The African Union Chairman, President John Kufour, has said that Zimbabwe’s leader has a right to attend the EU-Africa summit in Portugal. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown had said he would boycott the December summit if President Robert Mugabe was there.
THE 12th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of the Heads of State and Government was due to end yesterday with the adoption of the strategic plan for 2009 to 2012, which aims at addressing bottlenecks impeding the version of a Union Government for the continent.
OVER the past years, especially after the international community accepted him back into the diplomatic arena, Muammar al-Qathafi has unflinchingly advocated for what could be described as a radical form of the African Union.
LIBYAN leader Muammar al Qathafi has vowed to pursue his vision of a United States of Africa (USA), in his inaugural address as the new chairman of the African Union (AU).
THE second session of the African Union (AU) Sports Ministers Conference opens in Accra this morning with the agenda of formulating a draft policy to reshape sport to make it more beneficial to the continent.
African countries will require a whopping $72 billion in external financing each year to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the targeted year of 2015, the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, said in New York yesterday.