Africa: Can peer review work in Africa?

African leaders now have a new mechanism for monitoring each other's progress towards political and economic reform but can it work? John Kufuor is allowing Ghana to be assessed first. The move launched last weekend in Rwanda is a step towards implementing the economic recovery plan, the New Partnership for Africa's Development, otherwise known as Nepad. Seventeen African leaders have signed up to the peer review mechanism, saying it will improve governance and accountability.