SciDev.Net: Africa should not be seen as a charity case in global negotiations on climate change, the continent’s newly chosen chief negotiator said yesterday (3 September). Speaking at a meeting convened by the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa to promote the African negotiating position, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the continent has “no intention to free-ride” a post-Kyoto agreement. Zenawi was chosen to chair a new high-level committee to steer the African …