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On 27 November 2015, the Director of CIDO and Head of the AU ECOSOCC Secretariat, Dr. Jinmi Adisa met with a high-level delegation from the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE), led by Mr. Shi Guohi, Deputy Secretary-General of CNIE.
The meeting was held as a follow-up to the 4th China-Africa People’s Forum which took place on 26 August 2015 in Yiwu, China, under the formal auspices of CNIE and AU ECOSOCC.
The objective of the meeting was therefore to initiate planning for the implementation of the Forum’s outcomes over the next year 3-year period.

Paris, France, 06 December 2015- The special session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) was held on Sunday 06 December 2015 in Paris, France, in preparation for the high level segment of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th Session of the Conference of the Parties (CMP11). The day-long AMCEN meeting was aimed at deliberating and reaching to common consensus of key and strategic priority issues for Africa in the negotiations for the 2015 new climate change agreement.

Maseru, 7 December 2015: A 5-day Building Resources for Democracy, Governance and Elections (BRIDGE) Training has begun today in Maseru, the Kingdom of Lesotho, for the staff of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). The training on “Civic Education and Voter Information” has the objective to help the staff of IEC to better carry out its constitutional mandate relating to civic education and voter information and enhance political participation. Participants for the training are drawn from senior management and implementers of Civic Education and Voter Information within the IEC.