Africa Agenda

14-16 April 2004, Dakar, (Senegal) -- 3rd Asia-Africa Business Forum (AABF) on the theme "Strategic Partnerships." E-mail <nicholas.gouede@undp.org>.

24-25 April 2004, Washington, D.C. (USA) -- International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Spring Meetings. Website <www.imf.org/external/spring/2004/index.htm>.

29 April - 1 May 2004, Sacramento, California (USA) -- 13th Annual Africa/Diaspora Conference on the theme "African and African American Relations in US, Americas and Africa." Contact Professor Ernest E. Uwazie, tel (916) 278-6282, fax (916) 278-3429.

9-12 May 2004, Cape Town (South Africa) -- 2nd African Conference on Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research. Contact Dr. Olive Shisana, tel (27-12) 302-2860, e-mail <mrousseau-maree@hsrc.ac.za>.

20-22 May 2004, Toronto (Canada) -- International Conference on Economics of Sustainable Forest Management. Tel (416) 978-6196, fax (416) 978-3834, e-mail <shashi.kant@utoronto.ca>.

20-23 May, Kampala (Uganda) -- Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, on theme "Mainstreaming Trade Policy in National Development Strategies." E-mail <ecainfo@uneca.org>, website <http://www.uneca.org/cfm/2004/index.htm>.

24-27 May 2004, Shanghai (China) -- Scaling up Poverty Reduction: A Global Learning Process, sponsored by the World Bank and its partners. Website <http://www.reducingpoverty.org>.

25 May 2004, Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Conference on good governance for Southern African NGOs. Contact Yvonne Morgan, tel (27-11) 726-1148, e-mail <info@cafsouthernafrica.org.za>.

1-2 June 2004, Accra (Ghana) -- 8th West Africa Information and Communications Technologies Conference and Exhibition. Contact Kwaku Baffour-Ansah, e-mail <kwaku@aitecafrica.com>.

1-4 June 2004, Bonn (Germany) -- International Conference for Renewable Energies. Tel (49-6196) 79-4404, fax (49-6196) 79-4405, e-mail <info@renewables2004.de>, website <http://www.renewables2004.de>.

2-4 June 2004, Maputo (Mozambique) -- Africa Economic Summit 2004, organized by the World Economic Forum. E-mail <africasummit@weforum.org>.

10-12 June 2004, Durban (South Africa) -- 3rd International Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health. E-mail <leslie.nunez@utoronto.ca >.

13-18 June 2004, São Paulo (Brazil) -- 11th UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD-XI). Tel (41-22) 907-1234, fax (41-22) 907-0043, e-mail <info@unctad.org>.

19-21 July 2004, Dakar (Senegal) -- International Conference on Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS. E-mail <info@africa-first.com>, website <http://www.africa-first.com/4thictm.asp>.

30 August-3 September 2004, Port Louis (Mauritius) -- 10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. E-mail <mauritius2004@sidsnet.org>.

WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE

1-4 February 2004, Cape Town (South Africa) -- All Africa Minister's Conference on Education. Tel (27-11) 313-3843, fax (27-11) 313-3450, e-mail <mzobanzim@nepad.org>.

23-26 March 2004, Rustenburg (South Africa) -- International Investors Conference organized by Invest North West. Contact Lesley-Anne Welman, tel (27-14) 594-2570, fax (27-14) 594-2575, e-mail <events@inw.org.za>.

5-8 April 2004, Cairo (Egypt) -- ITU Telecom Africa 2004. Contact Patricia Benoit-Guyot, tel (41-22) 730-6164, e-mail <telecom@itu.int>.