04/10/2009
Ethiopia Hosts 3rd Annual GLOBE Africa Regional Meeting and Teacher Training Workshop
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the GLOBE Africa Consortium took place on 20 -21 February 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mr. Fuad Ibrahim, the Education State Minister, delivered the opening address on behalf of Ethiopia's National Minister of Education, H.E. Dr. Adhanom. H.E. Dr. Abera Deressa, State Minister of MoARD and chairman of the climate change forum, delivered the Keynote address for the meeting followed by Mr. Michael McClellan, Public Affairs Counselor of the U.S. Embassy. The Annual Meeting was attended by representatives of 11 African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa and Uganda, and by Dr. Teresa Kennedy, Deputy Director of GLOBE, representing the GLOBE Program Office at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
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