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...Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Already smarting at the way his dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed at another recent bit of scene stealing: the launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an economic initiative led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and other African leaders. Only months ago, Gaddafi was dismissing NEPAD as an exercise in neocolonialism. But a visit by Mbeki to Tripoli before the Durban summit brought the Libyan leader back on board, and last week he was even...
Developed states should support NEPAD's strides toward good governance, but they also have to offer increased trade access to African products. That includes, painfully, reducing their own agricultural subsidies - not raising them, as the U.S. has done. Developed countries' financial support for their own farm products is today equal to sub-Saharan Africa's combined economic output. It is folly, as well as unfair, for the developed North to protect its inefficient industries at the expense of the more competitive industries of the South. And to encourage more responsible and accountable government, the G-8 should also insist that...
...their intent to crack down on deviant states. President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is one such example; a harder line on that troubled state by African Presidents would have won them more sympathy and support at Kananaskis and beyond. Africa also needs to choose its flag-bearers with care. NEPAD is currently spearheaded by Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa, not all examples of good governance, democracy and human rights...
There have been, according to one calculation, 18 African developmental initiatives over the past 20 years. What makes NEPAD different is its recognition of past failures, its ownership by Africans themselves and, critically, its timing in the wake of Sept 11. NEPAD's proponents recognize that failure would, at this stage, be more damaging had nothing been attempted. But its success could bring unparalleled benefit. As South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has noted, "It would be an extraordinary thing to be party to a process which turned the continent around and defined Africans in a radically different...
...billion in debt, help in eradicating polio and a peacekeeping force - all in return for reform. The seven countries, which with Russia make up the Group of Eight industrial nations, developed their plan in response to an African initiative called the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Canada mounted its largest peacetime security operation for the G-8 summit. Antiglobalization protesters were allowed no nearer than Calgary, 90 km away from Kananaskis, the meeting site. The only security breach: documents diagraming protocol arrangements for the G-8 leaders were found in a Kananaskis picnic area - by a London Times...