By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE (ACP-IDN) – The world’s first green power generator which can produce electricity using radio frequencies, an electric powered car which does not consume fuel, a multi-fueled helicopter: by any stretch of imagination, innovations like these will not be attributed to an African. But Maxwell Chikumbutso has meanwhile been recognized as an […]
USA Claims Russia Flouting Global Ban on Nuclear Testing Too
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – Amid mounting signs of a new arms race unleashing between the United States and Russia, which together account for 93 percent of the nuclear weapons around the world, a top Trump Administration official has obliquely accused Russia of violating the global ban on nuclear tests enshrined […]
79-Nation Group’s Head Explains Vital Tasks Ahead Until ACP-EU Accord Expires
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – As talks progress on future relations between 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union in the aftermath of historic Cotonou Agreement due to expire in February 2020, Secretary-General Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes has spelt out vital tasks ahead. The significance of milestones marking […]
ACP Provides Information on Development of Private Sector
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – The Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, has launched a series of regional meetings aimed at boosting ACP private sector information, developing knowledge sharing and networking. As an integral activity of the Joint ACP-EU Private Sector Development Framework, these events are being organised with […]
Lending a Research Hand to CARICOM, Strengthening the ACP
By Desmond Brown This report is part of a series focusing on the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States working to “modernize” their relations, and in the process giving the ACP Group “a greater presence” at the United Nations. – The Editor. KINGSTON, Jamaica (IDN) – In the face […]
ACP-UNCTAD Workshop Targets at Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality
By Ronald Joshua GENEVA (IDN) – Well ahead of the High-Level Political Forum in July 2019 under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the focus on “empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality“, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Secretariat and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held […]
International Aid Flows to Southern Africa after Two Devastating Cyclones
By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE (IDN) – All that she has now is her 12-year old daughter. Her home, and almost all her belongings were destroyed by Cyclone Idai in March. Over a month ago since the tragedy struck, 35-year old Teresa Chizimu who hails from Chikwawa district in Malawi, has sunken deeper and deeper into […]
79-Nation ACP Group Must Guard Against Lack of Unity
By Desmond Brown This report is part of a series focusing on the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States working to “modernize” their relations. These involve “a greater presence” of the ACP Group at the United Nations. As a minimum, an ACP-EU coordination unit should have a seat at […]
Future EU-Caribbean Relations in New ACP-EU Partnership
By ACP Press KINGSTON (ACP-IDN) – As the EU is working to modernise its relations with 79 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP), the two groups’ chief negotiators Neven Mimica and Robert Dussey met with ACP Caribbean leaders for a dedicated dialogue on the regional EU-Caribbean pillar in the framework of the […]
The Pacific Reaffirms Commitment to the ACP Group of States
By ACP Press BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – Minister for National Planning and Monitoring of Papua New Guinea, Richard Maru, has assured the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group that Papua New Guinea will continue to play an active role in the affairs of the ACP Group of States. Minister Maru met the ACP Secretary General, Dr. […]