Africa: FOI Conference Opens

1 August 2007

An African Regional Conference on Freedom of Information (FOI) opened on Monday in Ghana's capital city of Accra.

The two-day conference, attended by delegates from all over Africa, was to among other things hear implementation experiences from the few African countries that are presently implementing FOI laws, review a proposed model FOI law for African countries and adopt a regional-based FOI advocacy strategy.

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