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  • Pan-African Youth Leadership Forum III, December 2012

    We are pleased to announce that Friends of Africa International, Inc. (FAI), in collaboration with the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, will be hosting our third annual Pan-African Youth Leadership Forum (PAYLF), December 10-14, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Click here for more information.

    Download the application for the third Pan-African Youth Leadership Forum:
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    FAI is an international organization that aims to promote human rights, social justice, democracy and good governance in Africa. Please explore our site to learn more about the organization's work.

United Nations System Wide Action Plan on Youth – Questionnaire

 
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The United Nations is developing a System Wide Action Plan on Youth. This Action Plan will affect the way the whole UN system will work with and for youth in the coming years. The Action Plan will focus on the five priority areas identified by the Secretary General:

  • Employment
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Education, including education on sexual and reproductive health
  • Citizenship and protection of rights
  • Political inclusion
  • Before developing this Action Plan, the United Nations is reaching out to youth, youth-led organizations and others to seek their inputs. Please take a moment to fill out the questionnaire at

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFKH85W

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    Event: 43rd Edition of the Pio Manzù International Conference

     
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    Rimini, Novelli Theatre 12/13/14 October 2012 


    Italy is now seen as reflecting all the ills of the new century: the global economic crisis, the power of the financial markets, the absence of solutions to the welfare crisis, the deregulation of commercial relations, unfair commercial competition, weak leadership, the crisis of a twentieth century political system.
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    JFK Jr. Forum Event on “The Future of Nigeria”

     
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    Friends of Africa International recently co-sponsored a JFK Junior Forum event on “The Future of Nigeria” with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and the Future of Diplomacy Project on Monday April 23, 2012 at 6pm.

    The details are below:

    A Panel Conversation on “The Future of Nigeria” with:
    Ambassador Adebowale Adefuye
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    Discussions Among Friends: Rachel Njinimbam

     
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    FAI is proud to present Ms. Rachel Njinimbam to our “Discussion Among Friends” series.

    As an active and progressive leader in fighting for children’s rights, Ms Njinimbam has worked effortlessly to help improve the lives of orphan children in West Africa. Her organization, The Alpha Omega Children’s Foundation has helped assist hundreds of children to [...]

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    Discussions Among Friends: Daniel Wasonga

     
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    Our second “Discussions Among Friends” brings us Daniel Wasonga, a graduate student in Environmental Education who currently works with Rural Energy Enterprises Network Kenya.

    He is also actively involved in environmental activism through the Africa Youth Initiative for Climate Change. In the run-up to this year’s COP17 in Durban, South Africa, he has been involved [...]

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    Introducing Discussions Among Friends

     
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    Friends of Africa International is proud to be launching “Discussions Among Friends,” a new interview series in which perspectives from international aid workers, academics, politicians, and others will comment on a range of challenges that are facing Africa today. The aim of this project is to gain a variety of views and to cover a [...]

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    2011 Africa Day / Africa Vision Awards

     
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    The 2011 Africa Day was celebrated on May 19th, along with the Africa Vision Awards. Many loyal supporters of Friends of Africa International (FAI) were present.

    It was a day to celebrate the triumphs of the African continent, while broadening goals for dealing with the continent’s future challenges.

    To view photos from this and past [...]

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