Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Re: Uniting Africa

"The Assembly is the African Union’s (AU’s) supreme organ and comprises Heads of State and Government from all Member States. It determines the AU’s policies, establishes its priorities, adopts its annual programme and monitors the implementation of its policies and decisions. The Assembly may delegate its powers and functions to other African Union organs as appropriate."  - au.int




Assembly Chairpersons since 2002:
Jan 2019 to Jan 2020 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt 
Jan 2018 to Jan 2019 - Paul Kagame, Rwanda 
Jan 2017 to Jan 2018 - Alpha Conde, Guinea 
Jan 2016 to Jan 2017 - Idriss Déby, Chad 
Jan 2015 to Jan 2016 - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe 
Jan 2014 to Jan 2015 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania 
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 - Hailemariam Dessalegn, Ethiopia 
Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 - Thomas Yayi Boni, Benin 
Jan 2011 to Jan 2012 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea 
Jan 2010 to Jan 2011 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi 
Feb 2009 to Jan 2010 - Muammar Gaddafi, Libya 
Jan 2008 to Jan 2009 - Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Tanzania 
Jan 2007 to Jan 2008 - John Kufuor, Ghana 
Jan 2006 to Jan 2007 - Dénis Sassou N’Guesso, Congo 
July 2004 to Dec 2005 - Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria 
July 2003 to July 2004 - Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Mozambique 
July 2002 to July 2003 - Thabo Mbeki, South Africa 

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Monday, September 03, 2018

Skimming is the new reading, somebody wrote. OK. #FastFive

Reviewing the 2008 global financial crisis // The key policymakers have always maintained they had no choice but to let Lehman Brothers collapse. That’s simply not true.  (More...

Sooner than later, people will realise that cattle ranching is a good investment. - Audu Ogbeh, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development (More...

Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential to Create Wealth, a speech delivered at the FAO by Akinwunmi Adesina, former Agric Minister (More...)

Aretha Franklin died without a will.   One of the singer’s attorneys said he urged her repeatedly to draft one.  (More...

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