Sudan’s Bashir arrives in Addis Ababa for meeting on hunger in Africa
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June 30, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Sudan’s president Omer Al-Bashir arrived
in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday to take part at a
high level meeting of African and international leaders on ending
hunger in Africa.
African heads of states and ministers will consult on Monday on
renewed partnership for a unified approach to end hunger in Africa.
Following his arrival to Addis Ababa, Bashir met with the Ethiopian
prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn to discuss bilateral relations but
also the ongoing tension with South Sudan after his recent decision to
stop the follow of the South Sudanese oil to the international markets
through his country over accusation of support to rebel groups.
At the meeting on hunger, African leaders are expected to endorse a
number of principles, policies, and strategies proposed during
Saturday’s African multi-stakeholder dialogue and Sunday’s agriculture
ministers meeting.
The high-level meeting, jointly convened by the Africa Union, the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in
collaboration with the Lula Institute - named after Brazil’s former
president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - to end hunger and malnutrition
on the African continent by 2025.
Opening the multi-stakeholders session, FAO’s Brazilian
director-general, Jose Graziano Da Silva - who served in as
extraordinary minister for food security in Lula’s cabinet between
2003 and 2004 - urged African leaders to increase political commitment
to alleviate hunger in Africa.
Da Silva noted a need to transform political will into coordinated
action if the goal of hunger eradication is to be realised.
“We are not here to reinvent the wheel. We are here to find the best
ways to scale up what is already working in region and to renew our
political will to end hunger in Africa” said Da Silva.
“We need to join forces against hunger. The decision to end hunger
needs to be taken by society as whole including governments, the UN
system and other regional and international organisations”.
Abebe Haile Gabriel, the AU’s director for rural economy and
agriculture, stressed a need to build partnerships between the public
and private sector, civil society, farmers’ organisations, and
academia.
The director noted that the goal of eradicating hunger in Africa by
2025 is attainable as long as African leaders have the determination
to change words into action.
It was disclosed at the meeting that 240 million Africans - one in
four - are undernourished, 40% of which are children aged five and
below.
Haile Gabriel said that Africa is the only continent where the number
of hungry people has increased in recent years, despite the
unprecedented economic growth registered during same period.
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