THE PRIEST

On November 24, 1961, as a consequence of the first French nuclear test in the dessert of Western Sahara, in the territory of today’s Algeria, the General Assembly appealed the United Nations Member States to stop these tests carried out in the densely populated territories of North Africa. Three years after, the African Heads of State and Government gathered at the Summit Conference of the African Unity (OAU) solemnly declared by means of an international treaty that they were ready to achieve a treaty prohibiting the production and the absolute control over nuclear weapons in their region.  This proposal had not made any progress till the Cold War was over.It was since 1991 that South Africa, the African continent’s only country that had developed technological capacity for making nuclear weapons, became an integrant of the NPT, when real prospects for establishing a nuclear weapon free zone in Africa opened. The African Treaty bears the name of Pelindaba in honor of the ...

This project also came into news during India-Africa Summit The Green Wall initiative was conceived and first proposed by Nigeria's ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005. While the idea was met enthusiastically, the African nations have lacked funding to begin work on the project. In late 2007 however, the European Union pitched in with help in designing the plan. The EU has promised further support with i mplementation, as well.  The 25-member African organization CEN-SAD (Community of Sahel-Saharan States) has initiated in 2008 a project to build a Great Green Wall across the continent from Mauritania in West Africa to Djibouti in the East. This initiative, which is linked to sustainable development, reflects a strong political will to conduct in well delineated regions of the Sahelian and Saharan countries a set of concerted and coherent interventions with the aim of achieving simultaneously the three  following goals: 1) natural resource conservation, devel...

The Ezulwini consensus has been reffered in recent Adis Ababa declaration of India – Africa 2 nd summit .This consensus adopted in 2005 represents the common position of African nation on the issue of reform in United Nations . The detail of the consensus can be read @ http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/files/AU_Ezulwini%20Consensus.pdf

During first summit in 2008 in Delhi a “Delhi Declaration” was adopted for enhanced cooperation . It has been decided to enhance our partnership with new initiatives for the mutual benefit of Africa and India, In recent years, this has included substantial financial flows from India to Africa in terms of grants, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and concessional loans that continue to contribute to capacity building in the socio-economic sectors, particularly in the human resource development, the development of the private sector, increasing support to infrastructure, agriculture and SMEs, leading to a substantial expansion of Indian investment in Africa and of trade between Africa and India. Climate change Developed countries have been urged to take steps towards reducing the green house gas effect . Stressing upon the importance of Bali action plan 2007 , the declaration appealed to the developed counties to operationalise all the institutional arrangements included in the Ca...