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=== Say "NO" to the ARC-African Registry: The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots===

=== Say "NO" to the ARC-African Registry: The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots===

DCA started this awareness about the African Union introduction of an Expression of Interest to run .africa. The Communiqué was issued to clarify its position on DotAfrica stated that it will float an Expression of Interest process to short-list bidders to be endorsed for DotAfrica, and as of Week 20 of 2011 . This was regarded an unnecessary effort and also it was evident that the EOI process had been  discredited, and considered a step to officially hijack the DotAfrica Initiative using supposititious African Union official machinery also termed 'AU-led'-process, to favour AfTLD. <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1106696043739.html  The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots: Say "No" to the ARC-African Registry  ]</ref>

DCA started this awareness about the African Union introduction of an Expression of Interest to run .africa. The Communiqué was issued to clarify its position on DotAfrica stated that it will float an Expression of Interest process to short-list bidders to be endorsed for DotAfrica, and as of Week 20 of 2011 . This was regarded an unnecessary effort and also it was evident that the EOI process had been  discredited, and considered a step to officially hijack the DotAfrica Initiative using supposititious African Union official machinery also termed 'AU-led'-process, to favour AfTLD. <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1106696043739.html  The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots: Say "No" to the ARC-African Registry  ]</ref>

[[File:The_Dakar_Africa_Agenda_Masquerade.jpg‎|right|upright|[[The Dakar “Africa Agenda” Masquerade]]]]

[[File:The_Dakar_Africa_Agenda_Masquerade.jpg|frame|   The Dakar “Africa Agenda” Masquerade:ICANN 42 October 11, 2011|link=http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1108039247315.html]]

 

===Say "NO" to the ARC: The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar  ===

===Say "NO" to the ARC: The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar  ===

During the [[ICANN]] 42nd Meeting held from 23rd to 28th October 20 11 in Dakar Senegal, there was an 'African Ministerial Round-Table' meeting that was organized as a preICANN organized from the 19th to 21st October 2011supposedly to  generate an 'African Agenda' as a resolution that will be presented as an input to the official [[ICANN]] 42 Meeting. However What [[DotConnectAfrica]] found to be suspect and worrying about theextra-ordinary meeting of experts was the role being played by Mr. Pierre Dandjinou and the nexus that has been established between Monsieur Dandjinou and the newly formed African Registry Consortium (ARC) with an avowed diabolical intention of hijacking DotAfrica.

During the [[ICANN]] 42nd Meeting held from 23rd to 28th October 20 11 in Dakar Senegal, there was an 'African Ministerial Round-Table' meeting that was organized as a preICANN organized from the 19th to 21st October 2011supposedly to  generate an 'African Agenda' as a resolution that will be presented as an input to the official [[ICANN]] 42 Meeting. However What [[DotConnectAfrica]] found to be suspect and worrying about theextra-ordinary meeting of experts was the role being played by Mr. Pierre Dandjinou and the nexus that has been established between Monsieur Dandjinou and the newly formed African Registry Consortium (ARC) with an avowed diabolical intention of hijacking DotAfrica.