Catégorie : Coopération UE-Afrique
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Urgent action needed to address drought and famine in Africa – Statement by Caritas Africa
Right now, across the Sahel and the Horn of Africa regions, many millions of people are facing drought and famine conditions. Whilst the global media and political spotlight is focused on the crisis in Ukraine, attention to the suffering of people in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped away and support for life-saving aid efforts is woefully inadequate. An estimated 15-16 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are in need of immediate food assistance because of the drought. As one woman in Northern Kenya told a Caritas diocesan staff person, as she was sat metres from her livestock that have died during the drought (pictured to the right): “So many people have lost their animals. Thousands of animals have died. There is no water for my family and me. Out of almost 300 goats, I have none, all died.”
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CSO Forum on Migration and Mobility at the AU-EU week of partnerships 15th February 2022.
The leaders of the EU and the African Union (AU) including their respective member states will meet for the sixth European Union – African Union summit in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2022. The 5th summit took place in Abidjan in 2017. AU-EU relations have been guided by the “Joint Africa-EU Strategy”, which was adopted in 2007. […]
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Shifting the EU-AU dialogue toward more transformative actions
How can the new EU-Africa partnership take a balanced and sustainable approach to migration ? “It does help to listen to communities to understand what is lacking, instead of imposing our ideas based on what we think would work for them”(Ottilia Anna Maunganidze, Head of Special Projects at the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa) […]
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A Step in the right direction : The European Parliament’s EU-Africa Report
Caritas Africa and Caritas Europa welcome the report adopted today by the European Parliament outlining its vision for the future of EU-Africa relations. The report comes one year after the European Commission’s initial proposal for the thematic areas and priorities of the new EU-Africa partnership, and represents a key milestone in the lead-up to the 6th African Union-European Union […]