New CSO and African government representatives join the TerrAfrica family

During the TerrAfrica Executive Committee (TAEC) meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina (26-27 September 2009), new representatives from the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and African governments joined the TAEC.

The new African country representatives are Ethiopia and Niger, which replaced Chad and South Africa. The CSOs PELUM Lesotho and CONGAD were replaced by the National NGOs-CBOs Coordination Committee on Desertification in Kenya and Phytosalus in Burkina Faso. The CSOs representatives were nominated on an interim basis until the CSOs hold elections next year in 2010.