CENTRAL AFRICA:  Not Ready to Negotiate Trade with Europe
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BRUSSELS, Jun 4 (IPS) - Central Africa seems an unlikely candidate for a  free trade deal with the European Union.
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Global Trade's Precarious Balance
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BRUSSELS, Jan 31  (IPS) - Conscious that trade issues had become a major  source of friction between African countries and their former  colonial overlords, the European Commission President JosÃ© Manuel  Barroso extended an olive branch in December.
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How an isolated African region became a barometer of tastes and trends in other parts of the world.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 7 (IPS) - The European Commission and a grouping of   countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the  Pacific are no  nearer an agreement on trade liberalisation after their  latest  effort.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed if it is to catch up with the rest of the world.
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The European Union aims to stabilize security conditions in central Africa and the southeast corner of the Balkans by renewing its police mission in Macedonia and expanding police and national guard training ...
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BRUSSELS, May 25 (IPS) - The European Union and West Africa could scarcely  be more different in terms of wealth, yet a pending trade  agreement risks making the disparity even greater.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed for it to catch up with the rest of the world.
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Bickering African countries remained deadlocked Tuesday on whether to ease an 18-year international ban on ivory sales, with opponents warning it will increase the poaching threat in places where elephants have almost disappeared.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - African nations have been reduced to  "begging" in negotiations on their future economic ties  with the European Union (EU) in what has turned into exercise  "assaulting democracy," according to trade unionists and  policy analysts from both north and south.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 13 (IPS) - European consumers shunning imported food  supposedly to limit climate change should not make African  farmers a scapegoat, a Brussels conference has been told.
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Tiny Rwanda and Burundi have threatened action against the central African giant, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, which has pushed Africa's volatile Great Lakes region into a new ethnic crisis.
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Analysis: Even as its effort to join the European Union faces growing obstacles, Turkey's economy is making it more European than ever
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.