Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to Africa`s myriad conflicts
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- Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to Africa`s myriad conflicts
- Utusan Malaysia Online – World
- Home and garden calendar, March 22
- LEADER ARTICLE: Sun, Sand & Drugs
- KCL wants to become a full-fledged foods company
- ACBF grants Eritrea capacity building funds
- IMF to meet on Nigeria`s debt relief
Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to Africa`s myriad conflicts
AngolaPress – Mar 22, 2008
Speaking during a meeting of regional ministers for defense and
security in Nairobi on Wednesday, Vice President Moody Awori noted
that Africa had in the past utilized the limited resources in
conflict resolution at the expense of other crucial areas such as
in economic development. “We have had to rely on international community for assistance
in resolving some of these conflicts. It is time now we seek ways
and means to solving our own predicaments as a continent,” Awori
told ministers from seven member states of the regional grouping,
Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Fourth Eastern Africa Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) Council of
Ministers meeting is seeking ways of operationalizing the Brigade
to enable it fully equipped to intervene in conflict areas within
the region.
Utusan Malaysia Online – World
Utusan Malaysia Online – Mar 22, 2008
She has spent more than half the last 14 years under house arrest, winning the Nobel Peace Prize while confined, and Razali was instrumental in getting Suu Kyi freed last time. In a report issued on Tuesday, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Myanmar’s military rulers to free her again quickly. “The three-year-old home-grown process of national reconciliation, as understood by the United Nations, has come to a complete halt” because of the detention of Suu Kyi, he said. “Unless the parties concerned are able to engage in substantive dialogue, the international community will have to conclude that the home-grown national reconciliation process no longer exists. ”
Khin Nyunt has offered few details of his “road map” and opposition groups have dismissed it as a ploy to keep the military, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962, in power. It did not satisfy the West and Khin Nyunt will have to face Myanmar’s nine partners in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), who have tried persuasion while the United States imposed sanctions, at a summit next week. “Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke very strongly about how there should be changes in Myanmar, so I’m sure that his peers will be expecting to hear from him about the latest political developments,” a senior Thai Foreign Ministry official said.
Home and garden calendar, March 22
Rocky Mountain News – Mar 22, 2008
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LEADER ARTICLE: Sun, Sand & Drugs
Times of India – Mar 22, 2008
In the years between, hippies,
punks, Rastafarians, devotees of new-age gurus all hung out in Anjuna, swapping
drugs, music and sexual partners. Bob Dylan, John Lennon and The Who, according
to legend, dropped in during the mid-1970s. The beach even birthed the Goa
trance, a home-grown electronic dance music, before house and techno music
invaded the scene in the early 1990s, and even spawned a ‘world-famous’
eponymous deejay. Tourists bent rules bribing a typically feckless police to
take over parts of beaches, putting up
‘Indians not allowed’ signs to
keep away the natives from the parties and raves and nude sunbathing. The place
was seen by many as a secluded, whites-only haven for hippies, who according to
a researcher, could “freely indulge in drugs, nude sunbathing and all-night
full-moon parties”. In a
strange way, Anjuna exemplifies what is right and wrong with foreign tourism in
Goa today. Foreigners – hippie, white trash and otherwise – have lifted living
standards in the area.
KCL wants to become a full-fledged foods company
Hindu – Mar 22, 2008
KCL had just hit the market with its brand of Murginn’s cornflakes. KCL Foods, he said, was also looking at a range of gluten-free products. The company would look at a launch of a new product every month and its home grown R&D department was throwing up ideas all the time. “The emphasis is on foods with flavours and tastes like local cuisine. We are definitely working on doodh jilabee, which goes with hot milk,” he added.
ACBF grants Eritrea capacity building funds
AngolaPress – Mar 22, 2008
The grant, which marks as the ACBF`s first economic policy advisory
management (EPAM) project in Eritrea, will be used to train 320 staff
members in the ministry. The ACBF, an inter-African state organization, has a mandate to build
sustainable capacity for poverty reduction in Africa. “The government of Eritrea has demonstrated its will and commitment to
undertake home-grown programmes aimed at poverty reduction. This grant is
aimed at strengthening capacity in economic growth,” said ACBF`s
executive secretary, Soumana Sako. The staff so trained, said Sako, would be beneficial to the country since
skills learnt would be useful in economic planning and the initiation of
policies that would encourage investors and the streamlining of the
central bank, instead of continuous reliance on external consultants who
often prescribe strategies which are not compatible with local realities. “Countries which are in conflict, or just emerging from conflicts like
Eritrea, are in dire need of qualified and competent staff to steer their
economic priorities. That is why ownership of the process of economic
planning is critical.
IMF to meet on Nigeria`s debt relief
AngolaPress – Mar 22, 2008
8 billion immediately
in order to seal the deal and lift its Paris Club debt burden. The PSI framework played a fundamental role in helping Nigeria
achieve debt relief as the Paris Club of creditors require any
debtor country to have a formal IMF programme before granting
debt forgiveness to such country. But Nigeria`s PSI framework allows the IMF to formally endorse
its own home grown development strategy called NEEDS, and
undertake monitoring and surveillance without the need for
additional IMF conditionalities. Before the deal on the debt relief for Nigeria, the country`s
external debt stood at US$35 billion, 85 per cent of which was
owed to the Paris Club of 15 creditor nations. Only eight per cent of the debt is owed to multilateral
institutions such as the African Development Bank (ADB) and the
World Bank, while the balance of the debts (seven per cent) is
owed to the London Club of commercial creditors and holders of
Promissory Notes. With the final ratification and payment of the remaining US$4. 8
billion to the Paris Club, Nigeria would have reduced its total
debt portfolio from US$35 billion to just US$5 billion.