News

24 May 2013

• AUC conference of women stakeholders on Pan Africanism, Renaissance and Agenda 2063
  Source: African Women's Development Fund
  1) We, African women drawn from African Union Member States, Civil Society Organisations, Women Pan African Movements, Women’s Rights Organisations, Academia, Diaspora Organisations, Regional...
• Congo-Kinshasa: SA troops to DRC
  Source: Parliament of South Africa
  Cape Town:  A political situation is needed to stabilise the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rather than using military intervention. This was the view of MPs from the...
• Govt will block SA MPs - minister
  Source: The Times of Swaziland
  Mbabane:  Swaziland will not allow South Africa’s Members of Parliament to come into the kingdom on a proposed fact finding mission. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation...
• India Poll 2013: attitudes towards foreign policy issues
  Source: Lowy Institute for International Policy
  The India Poll 2013 reports the results of a nationally representative opinion survey of 1233 Indian adults conducted face-to-face between 30 August and 15 October 2012. Key issues covered in the...
• US, Chinese economies likely to get even closer
  Source: China Daily
  New York:  What does the future hold for US-China economic relations?  A new study calls the stakes "enormous" and says that if "the most important economic partnership in the world" is...
• Western Cape drafts an international relations, Africa strategy
  Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
  Cape Town: In the run-up to Africa Day on 25 May, it is important to highlight the Western Cape Government's continuing drive to create opportunities for growth and jobs by positioning the region to...

23 May 2013

• Africa Task Force Meeting: report
  Source: JICA Research Institute
  It is a great pleasure for me [Joseph E. Stiglitz] to share with you my thoughts about strategies and challenges confronting African development at the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African...
• BRICS countries pledge to step up cooperation in public health
  Source: Xinhua
  Geneva: The BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - pledged in a joint communique on the sidelines of the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to...
• Special Research Report on the Peacebuilding Commission.
  Source: Security Council Report
  This Special Research Report examines the work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)- a relatively recent addition to the UN system - mainly in the country-specific contexts of its work: Sierra...

22 May 2013

• 18 African NGOs granted consultative status at ECOSOC
  Source: United Nations
  United Nations:  Opening its regular session for 2013, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which is responsible for vetting applications seeking consultative status with the...