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ILO meeting in Africa to forge alliance against poverty

African workers, employers, and labor ministers are to gather in Addis Ababa on Dec. 2-5 to forge a new alliance for alleviating the plight of the continent's hundreds of millions of impoverished people and creating more and better jobs for them.


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African workers, employers, and labor ministers are to gather in Addis Ababa on Dec. 2-5 to forge a new alliance for alleviating the plight of the continent's hundreds of millions of impoverished people and creating more and better jobs for them.

An International Labor Organization (ILO) press release said onTuesday the aim of the 10th African Regional Meeting of the ILO isto hammer out priorities of action for the 53 ILO African member states.

"The tripartite constituents of the ILO in Africa are meeting at a time when the nations of the continent are creating institutions that promise to set in motion a dynamic process of development founded on their own collective endeavors," said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia.

"We need to make sure that a decisive step is taken in Africa'sstruggle to gain control of its own destiny, realize the full potential of its people and natural resources and break out of thetrap of widespread and debilitating poverty," he said.

The ILO said the meeting will create a platform of support for the Extraordinary Summit on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa, which is to be convened by African Union Heads of State and Government in Burkina Faso in 2004.

The ILO said more than 300 million people in Africa live in extreme poverty, on the equivalent of one US dollar a day or less,which marks the highest intra-regional poverty level and the widest gap between rich and poor in the world.

It said strategy for reducing poverty and closing this gap through a job-centered development agenda would be the main topic at the meeting.




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