The ACP-EU Courier | Number 9 (December-January-February 2009)

Summary:

This issue of the ACP-EU Courier magazine contains the following items:

• Editorial
  • Yes, they can!
• To the Point
  • The press in Africa, as seen by Robert Menard, founder of Reporters sans frontieres
• Round Up
• Viewpoints
  • European Development Days 2008:
    • Together for development
  • Humanitarian aid: solidarity in a different context
  • ECHO: dealing with disasters
  • Belgium's political crisis and its development policy
• Dossier
  • The Crisis. Serious damage for ACP countries... and positive side-effects
    • Africa can be optimistic
    • The harder they come
    • Caribbean tours hotspots feel the chill
    • Pacific islands struck by shock waves from Australia and New Zealand
• Interaction
  • From Global to Local: The issues of Development
  • Education is an absolute priority, ACP countries remind us
  • Less emphasis on Francophone issues and more activism
  • NGOs around the world call for the EU to support a 'Finally democratic' global governance system
  • Global Forum for Media Development
  • To move beyond the security dimension with Europe
  • Migrants: precious (human) resources for development
  • Cultural Diversity at the forefront
• Trade
  • Doha lends its support to the "numerical 1%"
• Zoom
  • Giving Tswana culture a world vision
• Our planet
  • The 'carbon' price of forests
• Report
  • Botswana. Beyond diamonds...
    • From low to middle income nation
    • No democracy can exist without discipline
    • Botswana feels a need for outside support
    • Opposition calls for democratic and economic change
    • Adding sparkle to rough diamonds
    • The production challenge in farming
    • Fighting the national HIV/AIDS catastrophe
    • Passion killings
    • Fresh pressures on the Okavango Delta
• Discovering Europe
  • Aragon awakes
    • Spain encapsulated
    • The Ebro, symbol of a region's combat
    • Recent immigration
    • Working with local players
    • Saragossa, new pole of European communication
    • Our Lady of the Pillar, Goya and other illustrious figures
• Creativity
  • The legacy of Miriam Makeba
  • Picasso and the African Masters
  • African cinema: tourism and cultural heritage
  • EU puts ACP culture centre-stage
• For Young Readers
  • The recession
• Your Say/Calendar