29th February 2016 Dr. Shakeel Bhatti Secretary International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) Interrelations between the International Treaty and relevant instruments of UPOV and WIPO. Dear Mr. Bhatti, In 2014, 54 civil society and...
The Pan African Congress was held 21 years after the previous one. Its resolutions capture the Congress’s desire to re-ignite the Pan African spirit, enthuse commitment to our African identity and inject energy into the Pan-African Movement. ACCRA, GHANA, 5 - 7 MARCH...
By Food Sovereignty Ghana, May 29, 2014 Dr. Vandana Shiva is embarking on a three-nation tour in Africa of which we are most fortunate to be included. The tour will take Dr. Shiva to Zimbabawe, then to Ghana, and end in Tanzania. Dr. Shiva will arrive in Ghana in the evening of...
Economic Justice Network - Ghana POLICY BRIEF ECOWAS EPA AND WTO-COMPATIBILITY Introduction People-including government officials, European Union (EU) representatives and some think tanks say that Ghana has no choice other than sign the regional Economic Partnership...
by Joeva Rock Recent reports on climate change have continuously stressed the unequal burden small states experience in comparison to their relatively low energy consumption. For many developing and low-income nations, this imbalanced and undue drain is the continuance of...
By Honourable Saka Africa is a lovely continent and the ordinary African is indeed one such nice person to discover. Africa is a continent of one people, though currently without a common vision, we still have a common destiny. The true African is always proud of his...
Started in February 2011 Mission Statement: We have decided to task ourselves, to engineer a platform that will serve as a tool for the identification, defence, and the advancement of the interests of main street Africa, as opposed to those of imperialism and help in...
Toward a continental AU government? By E.K.Bensah Jr. When the 12th Ordinary Session of the Africa Union Assembly of the Heads of State and Government ended on 3rd February 2009 with a call by the heads of State for continental government, the election of the late...
“The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen”: Why “Africa” is Lost in the “Abuja Treaty” Translation By E.K.Bensah Jr There's a conspicuously delicious irony centred around Nigeria in African integration history: it's to do with the fact that despite that...
Kwame Nkrumah: The greatest African By Eric Walberg “For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak,...
