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  • Africa APPG Meetings

    Recent Africa APPG meetings are listed below.

    All meetings are held in the House of Commons. Some are open to the public, others are held as private meeting for Parliamentarians only.

    Please contact us if you would like to attend any future meetings, or would like information about past events.

    Corruption and Money Laundering Oral Evidence Session: open to the public from 9.45am 19 January 06
    Corruption and Money Laundering Oral Evidence Session: open to the public from 9.45am 18 January 06
    Corruption and Money Laundering Oral Evidence Session: open to the public from 9.45am 11 January 06
    Briefing meeting on the healthcare "skills drain" from developing countries 19 December 05
    Corruption and Money Laundering Oral Evidence Session: open to the public from 945am 8 December 05
    Mrs Anna Kajunulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN Habitat and UN Special Envoy to Zimbabwe, "Africa on the Move; An Urban Crisis in the Making" 3 November 05
    A reception for Africans in Britain 26 October 05
    Post G8 Briefing: What will it really mean for Africa? 11 July 05
    An audience with His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria 6 July 05
    Debate in the House on Africa 30 June 05
    The role of the private sector in Africa 29 June 05
    Visit of Ghanian MPs and informal lunch 23 June 05
    Hillary Benn briefing in advance of the G8 20 June 05
    Reception with African music, food and drink 7 June 05
    Meeting on the role of women as drivers for Africa's development with Lindiwe Mabuza (South African High Commissioner) and Nana Ama Amamoo (Director, The African Families Foundation) 21 March 05
    African Voices on Development and Social Justice 14 March 05
    Briefing with Rt Hon Hillary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development 14 March 05
    A meeting on Mututal Accountability with KY Amoako, Executive Secretary, the UN Economic Commission for Africa 23 February 05
    Informal meeting with African journalists 23 February 05
    The work of the AU and its Peace and Security Council, Ambassador Said Djinenet 20 December 04
       
    Africa's seat at the table: Global Governance in a Changing International Context : Adotey Bing, Director of the Africa Centre 30 November 04
    Will Northern Environmentalism stop African growing?: Phillip Bradley, University of Hull 25 November 04
    Harnessing the power of the African Diaspora: Titi Banjoko, Director Africarecruit, Philip Ailker, Lawyer 16 November 04
    Kenya and NEPAD: Professor Anyang' Nyong'o, Minister for Planning and National Development, John Githongo, Permanent Secretary, Governance and Ethics, Office of the President 10 November 04
    External Attempts at Peace and Nation Building: Lessons for and from Africa: Tijane Thiam, Commissioner 9 November 04
    African Refugees in the UK 4 November 04
    Doubling Aid? Absorptive Capacity, Impacts and Donor response in Africa: Tony Killick, Senior Research Associate, ODI, Alex de Waal, Director of Justice Africa 2 November 04
    Doubling Aid? Absorptive Capacity, Impacts and Donor response in Africa: Tony Killick, Senior Research Associate, ODI, Alex de Waal, Director of Justice Africa 2 November 04
    Profit and Development impact: Business partnerships for African Development: Dirk Willem te Welde, Research Fellow, ODI 26 October 04
    Making trade work for Africa: Ian Gilson, Research Fellow, ODI 20 October 04
    Africa's Development: Past, Present and Future roles of the West: Myles Wickstead, Head of the Secretariat to the Commission for Africa, Dapo Oyewole, Executive Director of the Centre for African Policy and Peace Studies, Richard Dowden, Director of Royal African Society 12 October 04
    HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Zackie Achmat, Chairman and founder of the Treatment Action Campaign 15 September 04
    Dr Michael Smalley, Director General African Medical and Research Foundation 20 July 04
    "Unpacking the African Union Summit: Deliberations, Decisions and Way Forward": Dr Adotey Bing, Director of the Africa Centre, Ms Adaora Ikenze, Commonwealth Secretariat, Patrick Smith, Editor, Africa Confidential 19 July 04
    A briefing on the Commission for Africa: Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN Habitat and Commissioner, Hillary Benn, Myles Wickstead, Head of the Secretariat to the Commission for Africa, Sir Bob Geldof 12t July 04
    Mozambique: Debt and Development - Achievements and Challenges: HE Antonio Gumende, Mozambique High Commissioner, Shriti Vadera, Council of Economic Advisers to the President 30 June 04
    Emergency call to action on UK Aid budget: Sir Bob Geldof 22 June 04
    IMF Policies in AIDS crisis countries, Peter Heller, IMF Deputy Director of Fiscal Affairs 21 June 04
    Launch of the Africa APPG's report on AIDS 'Averting Catastrophe: AIDS in 21st Century Africa' 7 June 04
    Briefing on the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS partnerships 12 May 04
    AIDS Report Steering Committee 29 April 04
    Developments in US Policy in Africa: Charles Snyder, Assistant Secretary of State 27 April 04
    AIDS Report Steering Committee 21 April 04
    Briefing with the Hilary Benn and Chris Mullin 21 April 04

    Chancellor Gordon Brown and Sir Bob Geldof (Joint with HIPC APPG)

    19 April 04
    Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Commission for Africa 31 March 04
    Recent developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Olivier Kamitatu, President of the National Assembly of the DRC 17 March 04
    Roundtable meeting with the AU Political Committee in London 16 March 04
    AIDS Expert Evidence Session: Dr. Sunanda Ray, Daniel Khamasi MP, Mxolisi Dukwana MPL, Bernard Mulenhani MP 11 March 04
    Roundtable meeting with a Comonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation from African Commonwealth countries 9 March 2004
    AIDS Expert Evidence Session: Asunta Wagura, Professor Alan Whiteside, Professor Richard Feachem 4 March 04
    AIDS Expert Evidence Session: Rt. Hon Hilary Benn MP, Wanjiku Kamau 2 March 04
    AIDS Expert Evidence Session: Dr Peter Piot, Dr Alex de Waal, Dr David Harrison 26 February 04
    Rt Hon Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary General on Africa and the Commonwealth 10 February 04
    President Joseph Kabila (Joint with Great Lakes and Genocide Prevention APPG) 5 February 04
    AIDS report steering committee 2 February 04
    The Rt Rev Lord Carey: Reconcilliation of Islam, Judaism & Christianity 27 January 04
    A chance for members to meet Namibian Parliamentarians with the CPA 27 January 04
    Expert Panel on UK Business in Africa: David Hampshire (Diageo) Anton Lenstra (Unilever) Dr Gerard Lyons (Standard Chartered) 7 January 04
    Annual General Meeting 7 January 04
    Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP on Agriculture and Poverty: Unlocking the Potential 6 January 04