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Postal Address

The ACP-EU Courier
European Commission
200 rue de la Loi
1049 Brussels
Belgium

Address for visitors

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1140 Brussels
Belgium

Publisher

Athanassios Theodorakis

Editor/Designer

Sylvia Howe
+ 32.2.295.2631

Managing Editor

Dorothy Morrissey
+ 32.2.296.8330

Journalists

Aya Kasasa
+ 32.2.299.1644
Dorothy Morrissey

Production

Anne Steger
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Web Page

http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/publicat/courier/index_en.htm

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Cover

Clowns, a painting by St Kitts artist Rosey Cameron Smith; carnival costumes that came to the island with Sierra Leonean slaves

Published in English and French.
Authors are responsible for the content of their articles.
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The ACP-EU Courier is the main publication of the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the European Union. The EU provides ACP countries with preferential access to EC markets and substantial development assistance (some two to three billion Euros a year). The ACP and EU cooperate at a political level and engage in a continuous political dialogue: in trade, to promote the integration of the ACP countries into the World Economy and in development assistance, with the clear objective to promote sustainable development and the reduction of poverty.

Ailsa Buckley, MAPP

Hinda works in the Hargeisa shop of the NGO Candlelight project in Somalia selling henna and other ground products to the local market. Her hands are decorated traditionally with the Asli henna