EPA's Threaten Another 'Scramble For Africa' - Unionists

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Union leaders who met in Palapye for a two-day economic workshop on trade and related issues on Friday likened trade agreements that Botswana and other African countries are entering into with Europe as a new form of colonisation.

Addressing the gathering, the former president of Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) Ronald Baipidi described the European Union's impending Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) as a means of underdevelopment of Africa.

"The EU is coming back to deplete our resources," Baipidi said. "I do not like the animal we are creating," he added, in the event that ACP countries accepted the EPAs.

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