VATICAN - Day of Study organised by Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 21 May to reflect on Social and economic development of Africa in the era of globalisation:

Tuesday, 18 May 2004

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Vatican City (Fides Service) - A day of study on the economic and social development of Africa in the era of globalisation will be held at the initiative of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on 21 May at the Council’s offices. Participants will include ambassadors of African countries accredited to the Holy See, experts and personalities of international organisations.
Introduced by the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Renato Martino, the morning session will be presided by the Holy See’s secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Giovanni Laiolo who will illustrate Pope John Paul II’s concern for Africa, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Congo to the Holy See Sede, Henri Marie Joseph Lopes, who will speak on the problems and hopes of the continent today. The United Nations special consultant Jeffrey Sachs, who is president of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will focus on the challenges facing Africa in the era of globalisation.
The morning study session will continue with interventions by Cameroon Archbishop of Douala, Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi and Kenneth Hackett President of Catholic Relief Services (USA) on the crucial problem of wars and reconciliation in Africa today.
The afternoon session, presided by Ivorian Cardinal Bernard Agré, will focus on pandemic diseases in Africa with interventions by the Angolan health minister Ms Albertina Nahosse Henrique Hamurkwaya and Italian medical Doctor Gianni Guidotti of the S. Egidio Community; and on the questions of poverty, international debt, trade and funding for African development with interventions by Vice president for the African region of the World Bank Callisto Madavo, Vice president of the African Development Bank African Chanel Boucher and the President of the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity Jean Marie Fardeau. The conclusions of the day’s work will be drawn by Cardinal Renato Martino. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 18/5/2004; Righe 24; Parole 291)