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Mozambique: APRM Report Nearing Conclusions
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
14 January 2008
Posted to the web 14 January 2008
Maputo
The Mozambican self-assessment report under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is nearing completion, according to the chairperson of the National APRM Forum, Lourenco do Rosario.
Addressing a Maputo press conference eon Monday, Rosario said that the research institutions charged with gathering the data for the report had produced their first draft. This would now go for "validation" back to the various groups in Mozambican society who had contributed to the discussion, to see whether their concerns are reflected in the report.
Rosario hoped that the Mozambique report would be presented to the African Union summit in July - well before the municipal elections scheduled for late 2008. Countries are warned not to attempt to hold their self-assessment during an electoral period.
Rosario announced that Mozambique will host later this week a three day meeting of editors and journalists from all five Portuguese speaking African countries on the APRM. The APRM Africa Journalism Programme has already held similar conferences for Anglophone and Francophone journalists in West Africa.
Three of the Portuguese speaking countries - Mozambique, Angola and Sao Tome and Principe - have acceded to the APRM, but Guinea/Bissau and Cape Verde have yet to do so.
Rosario welcomed Angola's decision to join the Mechanism. "Angola is a very important country because of its economic dynamism", he declared.
He acknowledged that there are those who want to exclude the media from the APRM discussions - but in his view, "the media are our strategic partners".
The APRM is the African Union's way of improving political and economic governance among its member states. But it is no panacea: Rosario noted that Kenya was among the first African countries to complete their APRM assessment. But the rigged Kenyan presidential election, and the subsequent violence did not mean the APRM was worthless.
Rosario pointed out that "Some of the problems raised in Kenya's ARPM report are at the root of the current conflict".
The director of the APRM Journalism Programme, Jerry Okungu, is himself a Kenyan. He told the press conference that Peer Review "is not for any individual - it's for an entire country. The events we have in Kenya were committed by individuals, and what has happened in Kenya should not discourage anyone about the APRM".
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