Gordon Brown is not the only one to include Africa on his agenda by
appointing Mark Malloch Brown as a new minister for Africa, Asia and the UN.
It is a hot topic which will be debated at the Conservative Women’s Organisation’s conference in November. The Environment and Women as Peacemakers are also very topical issues which will be discussed.
The sparkling speakers include:
- Charlie Ponticelli, Senior Advisor from US Dept. of State, Washington
- Zainab al Salbi – Women for Women International (pictured)
- Peter Constable Maxwell – UN Representative in South Sudan
- Tom Burke – Rio Tinto Zinc
- The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, Chairman of Africa Matters Ltd
- Sir Christopher Meyer , former Ambassador to the US (will he wear his famous red socks?)
- Zac Goldsmith from The Ecologist
- Lord Melchett, of The Soil Association
….as well as David Cameron and a host of top Tory Shadow Ministers.
I’m hoping I can do some citizen journalism reports from there for 18 Doughty Street with a camera they have loaned me. They have been very patient. I am still working out the technicalities of how to use it.
This conference was a sell out last year, so I suggest you don’t leave it too late to book up. It’s fantastic value at £30 for the day. It is open to non-Tory members too and men are also welcome.
Africa the flower waiting to bloom
And it need only take twenty years
Prosperity by enlarge has brought an end to civil way, poverty and famine – wherever prosperity takes hold, if not evenly, at least reaching growing numbers – and not just the few.
Or not just this group or that group
This sect or that sect
This race or that race
This religion or belief system or that.
Ah, Mr Malloch Brown. Melanie Phillips doesn’t like him .
[…] I shall particularly enjoy listening and learning from the African speakers. I have written before about Conservative women and Africa and only wish I could have joined our delegation to Rwanda earlier this year. […]