1.)
Reviewing the Zimbabwean Power Sharing Agreement
At the summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, following the Zimbabwean election in March
2008, the AU decided after intense debates in its resolution from the 1 Of July
2008 against exclusion of Zimbabwe from the AU, sanctions and any other kind
of punishment.
But instead the AU only called Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and Tsvangirai’s
MDC to create a government of national unity, hopping that such agreement would
improve the humanitarian situation in the country.
Recent events such as the temporary split up of
the unity government and the ongoing violence against
MDC follower and the further deterioration of the
humanitarian situation suggest that there is once
again a need of bringing this topic before this
committee.
2.) Food production and food trade. Ideas
for free trade zones
Africa has in the past couple of decades been viewed
to have many problems and most of them concern the
food aspect - the malnutrition and starvation of
vast regions that due to these processes produce
migration waves and conflicts.
Africa has the capability to produce food and has
the logistic ability to import food. It is not true
the cliché saying that there is NO FOOD and therefore
starvation and hunger are triggered. The problem is in the money which is needed
to either buy the food from a neighbor state in Africa or to import it from a
wealthy North-West hemisphere state. In the last couple of years the problem
with the food has increased due to the fact that the energy production companies
and states have increased their prices on energy commodities – meaning
mainly oil. When you have high prices of oil and you need food - you have to
pay sometimes more for an aided food than for an import from a neighbor state
because of the price for the transportation of the food.
Another food aspect concerns the fishery business
which has enlarged around the African continent
and has become a problem for the indigenous people
of the Africa - due to the numerous big trawler
ships, food has again become the first and most
suffering commodity for the people in Africa. This
is one of the reasons you now have maritime piracy
in some coastal regions around Africa.
African states can start doing the things that most
of the states worldwide are doing – a process you make call “from necessity to progress”.
There can be a simple example on this issue by remembering the post 2nd World
War time when from necessity of having peace and trust many two-state and multi-state
companies and organizations were formed with strict regulations on the usage
of the main sources of warfare at that time - oil, steel, coal - in order not
to be used for warfare. After there "needed" formation you have the
formation of ideas for progress - the processes that started after the EU Organization
for Coal and Steel. These processes are happening nowadays in the Middle-East
- more precisely among the GCC states (Gulf Cooperation Council). You can also
see such processes in the agreements between India, China and Russia, as well
as with the USA and Brazil.
This topic is viewed as a messenger that can bring
peace - a VERY HIGH LEVEL priority in Africa. The
talks for this will inevitably start in the coming
years - the only thing that puts them to a halt
is the states’ progress due to
nationalization of energy production facilities and the progress of the economies
of some states in Africa.
In terms of the climate changes - the African continent will have to take some
steps in order to have the ability to work for its green future - meaning not
only eco-initiatives but also the subsidiary of companies and processes for the
production of food.
E-mail: au@munusal.org
Angola
Amoateng, Yaw Amoateng |
Botswana
González, Clara |
Congo, Dem. Rep. Of
Limata, Plinio |
Egypt
Zapletal, Tom |
Equatorial Guinea
Warrington, Alexander |
Ethiopia
Pilavcı, Ezgi |
Ghana
Spence, Edrick D. |
Kenya
Grad, Iza |
Liberia
Dwomoh, George Sarfo |
Libya
Rauta, Vladimir |
Madagascar
Osei, Clement |
Mali
Kabbaj, Imane |
Mozambique
Lardeux, Coline |
Namibia
Müller, Livia |
Nigeria
Ugalde, Nayra |
Rwanda
ALEMA, GIDEON |
South Africa
Zimmer, Jan Lucas |
Sudan
Janon, Amelie |
Tanzania
Becan, Ayşe Elif |
Zambia
Schraft, Kathrin |
Zimbabwe
Wundersee, Andreas |
