The following is a raw computer generated translation of the French article on AKDN initiatives in Ivory Coast that appears in the Recent News sections.
The New Reveil Wednesday May 11 2004
The diplomacy ivoirienne in movement: Bamba Mamadou exchanges with the network Aga Khan The New Awakening - 5/11/2004 11:22:26 PM
In the framework of the fight against the poverty through the world, that the network Aga Khan registered in first line to his action program, MR. Adjabali Kassam, representing dudit network was received in audience yesterday Monday May 10 2004 by MR. Bamba Mamadou, state minister, minister of the foreign Affairs.
The two men exchanged on two projects that counts to realize in ivoire Coast the network AGA Khan that is not anymore to present for its humanitarian actions aiming to reduce the poverty in the world, to œuvrer for the liberty of the press and for true and just information. The first project that concerns the national education aims to assure the school for the maximum of children, otherwise for all the Coast children of ivoire. For the fight against poverty passes first by the school, the instruction. On this precise project, the state minister, minister of the foreign Affairs replied to the representative of the world-wide network Aga Khan: " all the assistances are the welcomes go out our country of poverty ".
As for the second project registers on the notebook of the network Aga Khan, it retrieves himself to the media notably to the formation of the journalists ivoiriens in order to render performance them and a lot professionaler ones. " It is necessary to form the journalists so that they give true and just the news to the populations " said the representative of the network to the minister Bamba that also recognized as a press partisane often is done to put the oil to the fire to the least crisis.
For the remainder, the representative of the network Aga khan reassured his host of the day that the aforementioned network holds itself ready to bring his assistance and his expertise to the government ivoirien in any domain or sector that this is provided that this one solicits it. The group Aga Khan is present in l’industrie ivoirienne through it group IPS.
Liah Ignace