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December 01, 2003
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From tomorrow (Tuesday),
Daily Summit will be reporting from
CHOGM, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is taking place this year in Abuja.
Our reporter,
Mick Fealty - of noted blog
Slugger O'Toole - will be online soon, bring you all the news from the summit.
For the uninitiated, the
Commonwealth is
an association of former British colonies, dependencies and other territories (as well as Mozambique).
Recently, the key issue for Commonwealth countries has been
Zimbabwe, and the
activities of Robert Mugabe's government there. Last week, Secretary General Don McKinnon told the BBC that
the Commonwealth had failed in its efforts to engage with the
Zimbabwean President - and the issue
isn't going to
go away at this summit.
However, the host country -
Nigeria - isn't without
its problems either.
You may ask while Daily Summit is looking at two summits at once.. well, alongside CHOGM, the
Commonwealth People's Forum is
taking place. It's a major
civil society summit, and we feel that those attending WSIS and those attending the people's forum will have similar aims - so, ultimately, we're getting a headstart on WSIS.
