MONROVIA – Three Liberian journalists are expected to leave the country today for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to cover the Sixth African development Forum, which is jointly organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Development Bank (AFDB).

The journalists include Mrs. Melissa Chea-Annan of The Inquirer Newspaper, Othello Garbla of The New Democrat Newspaper and Cheechiay Jablason of The Daily Observer.

The forum, which runs from 19-21 of November 2008, will be held under the theme, “Action On Gender Equality, Empowerment and Ending Violence against Women in Africa.”

The African Development Forum was initiated in 1999 as a multi-stakeholder platform for building consensus on identifying key challenges of African development and the strategies for over coming them.

The three day forum in Addis Ababa with its focus on gender equality, women’s empowerment and ending violence against women, is expected to provide an opportunity to review the progress made at the national, sub-regional and regional levels to date.

It will also provide an opportunity for a continental debate on the implementation of challenges being experienced in promoting gender equality, women empowerment. It will also end with a platform that will provide a clear recommendation on how to achieve its goals.

- The Inquirer