In 2005, the EMPRETEC programme consolidated its presence in Latin America, and in Anglophone and Francophone Africa.

Regional initiatives are under way in Mexico and in Central America, francophone West Africa, Southern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and South and South East Asia.

However, the Johannesburg stock exchange the largest in Africa with 180 billion in capitalization and the regional bourse of eight francophone States in West Africa actively facilitate foreign investment.

Furthermore, training was offered to several francophone African countries in 2004 on wetlands inventory methodologies.

Additionally, the Intergovernmental Agency of La Francophonie organized a consultative process through its own network of francophone youth organizations, which culminated in a meeting of youth representatives from 23 francophone countries in Cairo from 27 to 29 May 2005.

Mr. Mostafa Kamel pointed out that the francophone community was extremely supportive of the UNESCO Convention.

A regional ministerial conference of francophone African countries was held in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Agency of la Francophonie.

The third training programme on the prevention of conflict for Francophone African NHRIs is planned to start in January 2006.

The relatively new partnership with IFAD in South Asia and francophone West Africa, and the expanding partnership with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) in Latin America and South East Asia, are generating opportunities to strengthen coordination in relation to the gender dimensions of rural poverty.

The territories of 23 African countries, of which 17 are francophone, are either wholly or predominantly covered by the Libreville station.

Finally, UNIFEM is working at the regional level with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to produce analyses that support reporting on the Millennium Development Goals which takes into account gender concerns and with UNDP in francophone West Africa and Southern Africa to strengthen analytical and implementation capacities to link poverty reduction strategy papers, the Millennium Development Goals and gender responsive budgeting.

Mr. Paul Desanker Chair Ms. Madeleine Diouf Vice Chair and Francophone Rapporteur Mr. Puroshottam Kunwar Anglophone Rapporteur Mr. Almeida Sitoe Lusophone Rapporteur.

Noting also the creation of a francophone group of national institutions for human rights in cooperation with the International Organization of la Francophonie,

Private teaching establishments, whether francophone, anglophone or known trough another designation, are governed according to the provisions of the An Act respecting private education.

In 2005, the Partnership produced a francophone statistical advocacy film entitled La statistique au service du développement, which makes the case for increased support to statistical development.

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At its seventh meeting, the group elected Mr. Paul Desanker (Malawi) as Chair, Ms Madeleine Diouf (Senegal) as Vice Chair and francophone rapporteur and Mr. Puroshottam Kunwar (Nepal) as anglophone rapporteur.

The NI Unit has established closer links with the Association francophone des commissions nationales de promotion et de protection des droits de l'homme in cooperation with the International Organization of la Francophonie.

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OSS has elicited cooperation interest from the Francophone Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEPF) and the GEF in helping with training sessions on project formulation and the integration of monitoring and evaluation components.

At its fifth meeting the group elected Mr. Laavasa Malua (Samoa) as its Chair, Mr. Fred Onduri (Uganda) as Vice Chair, Ms. Madeleine Diouf (Senegal) as francophone rapporteur, and Mr. Puroshottam Kunwar (Nepal) as anglophone rapporteur.

The League of Arab States also participated in the Regional Ministerial Conference of Francophone African Countries on combating terrorism, corruption and transnational organized crime, hosted by Mauritius in cooperation with UNODC from 25 to 27 October 2004.

The five subregional offices are located in and are responsible for the following subregions Kigali, East Africa Lusaka, Southern Africa Niamey, West Africa Tangier, Morocco, North Africa and Yaoundé, Central Africa.

Already this morning there were some allusions to the Africa that you hear about all the time the Africa of HIV AIDS, the Africa of malaria, the Africa of poverty, the Africa of conflict, and the Africa of disasters.

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The third training programme on the prevention of torture for Francophone African NHRIs will start in fall 2006 with the Conseil consultatif des droits de l'homme of Morocco supporting the holding of a conventional workshop as part of the training.

They are implemented chiefly in severely affected areas of the Sahel, North Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa.

Now Africa, Sub Saharan Africa Sub Saharan Africa has been the area of the world most resistant to growth.

The Competition Commission of South Africa was also consulted on Steinhoff Africa Limited and its market in South Africa.

Africa in general and West Africa in particular are affected.

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The project will focus on four subregions (North Africa, West and Central Africa, East Africa and southern Africa) and will involve eight countries (two in each subregion), to be selected.

East Africa Road Network Project (five Projects) East Africa Railways Development

South Africa is the single largest source of OFDI from Africa.

The training course was co sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the United Nations. It was held at Libreville, Gabon, from 15 to 19 May 1995, for the benefit of francophone countries within the region served by the receiving station.

These are usually highland or fringe areas (e.g. Southern Africa, Sahel) in Africa as well as most malaria foci outside Africa.

And critically, what happens in central Africa doesn't stay in Central Africa.

Both North Africa and sub Saharan Africa have shared in this experience.

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