Cameroon: NEPAD RISKS DEEPENING AFRICAN WOMEN'S POVERTY, WANGUSA SAYS

The much-touted New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) risks deepening African women's poverty, the Kampala, Uganda-based coordinator of the African Women's Economic Policy Network told more than 200 women last week in an All Africa Conference of Churches pre-Assembly. "It's a document at the macro level. It doesn't capture the micro realities. NEPAD favours putting raw materials into the market and keeping labour costs low. That labour has a woman's face," she said.