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This week is the Socialists and Democrats Group’s second installment of Africa Week, which this year will focus on the “Youth and Future of Africa”. Follow EURACTIV’s Special Report for insights into work being done for a stronger EU-Africa partnership.
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S&D chief: ‘Employment for young Africans is a huge challenge’
On the eve of the EU-Africa Summit, Gianni Pittella says that European short-termism in migration policy will not address its root causes, and looks at agribusiness to leverage the continent out of poverty - 'but not at any cost'.
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Photographer warns ‘mankind’s first people’ face extinction
A photo exhibition by Belgian photographer and journalist Roger Job has highlighted the risk of extinction facing the Turkanas, a nomad pastoral population in north-east Kenya, threatened by climate change and a significant recent discovery of natural resources in their lands.
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Africa forum embraces the ‘Spotlight initiative’
Violence against women and girls is the root cause of discrimination and disempowerment, and this is not only about Africa, speakers insisted yesterday (26 September) at a conference on “Political Empowerment of Women in Africa and in Europe”.
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An Erasmus for young Africans and Europeans
On 29 and 30 September in Abidjan, Africa and Europe have a date with destiny. It may sound a rather audacious statement in the face of the international community’s growing interest in the African continent, but it is not, writes Gianni Pittella.
