UK investment, trade and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
7 February 2020
The Committee will take evidence on UK trade and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the African Union's role in addressing peace and security issues.
- ParliamentTV: The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Inquiry: The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa - prosperity, peace and development co-operation
- International Relations and Defence Committee
Witnesses
Wednesday 12 February in Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster
At 10.40
- Dr Dirk Willem te Velde, Principal Research Fellow and Director of Programme, International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute
- Tom Pengelly, Director, External Secretariat for All Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty, and Managing Director, Saana Consulting
At 11.40 via videolink
- Professor Tim Murithi, Head, Peacebuilding Interventions, and Extraordinary Professor of African Studies, University of Free State, South Africa
Possible questions
- What is your assessment of the importance and success of the recent UK-Africa Investment Summit?
- What are the biggest obstacles to the Government's ambition for the UK to become a bigger investor in Africa?
- To what extent do UK investments in fossil fuel industries in Sub-Saharan Africa undermine efforts by the Government to combat climate change?
- In Agenda 2063 the African Union pledged to "silence the guns" by 2020. What have been the biggest obstacles facing the AU as it tried to fulfil this pledge?
- Is there an appropriate balance between African and international commitments to peacekeeping efforts in the region, and what role does the African Union play in this?
- What is the African Union's role in building peace and ensuring transitional justice in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- What is your assessment of the 2019 UK-AU Memorandum of Understanding?