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Africa Club

Club d'Afrique

Contact Details

Main address: Contact: Avenue de la Victoire, BP 772, Lomé, Togo, Tel: (228) 221 39 34, Fax: (228) 222 11 59 - 221 53 65, E-mail: essitom (at) yahoo.fr

Aims

Create effective climate for a North-South dialogue and foster closer relations between the rich and poor countries by means of regular meetings and discussions; promote the development of the African continent; undertake research on problems related to the development of Africa; bring out publications concerning scientific projects of African universities and related African problems; promote school and university reorientation with a view to provide for the real needs of the African continent; reduce intellectual unemployment.

Official Relations

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)^* (Consultative Status).

Activities

International colloquia, conferences, meetings.

Publications

Growth, Equity and Self-Reliance: Private Initiative in Africa - The Challenge of the 80s; Economic Year Book of Togo; Economic Year Book of Ivory Coast.

Members

University teachers, research fellows, diplomats, politicians, businessmen, members of liberal professions, African scholars and scholars of other continents interested in the development of Africa in 79 countries:

• Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

• Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).

• India, Japan, Sri Lanka.

• Australia.

• Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia-Montenegro^*, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Members also in the former USSR; countries not specified.

UNESCO NGO Section Data

Type of Relation with UNESCOConsulatative Status

Reclassification date1998

Programme sector: EDNo

Programme sector: SCNo

Programme sector: SHSYes

Programme sector: CLTNo

Programme sector: CIINo

Programme sector: BSPNo

Programme sector: AFRNo

Name and contact details of NGO focal point at UNESCOM. Tidjani-Serpos Noureini
AFR/ADG
81535

History1980 Creation 1985 Category B 1998 Operational Relations (155 EX/40) (155 EX/Dec. 8.7) 1999 Operational Relations (156 EX/36) (156 EX/Dec.9.2) 2003 Renewal of operational relations (166 EX/38) (166 EX/Dec.9.2)

Contribution to UNESCO's programmes The Africa Club co-operates with UNESCO to the extent allowed by its methods of functioning and its objectives. It brings together members of the academic community and the political world who consider the major problems facing Africa. Admitted to former category B, the Africa Club has contacts with the Directorate and has participated in occasional activities, in particular the International Congress on Peace in the Minds of Men, Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire) 1989, and Audience Africa (February 1995). As the promotion of Africa is a UNESCO programme priority, co-operation between this organization and UNESCO programme sectors should develop further in the future, in particular with the Priority Africa Department. The Africa Club should also work more closely with the NGO-Africa network recently set up following the Regional Consultation of NGOs in Africa (Durban, Republic of South Africa, 1998).

Keywords Culture of peace,Volunteers,Africa,Culture,Development

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