January 26, 2004
Africa: Keep Agoa Alive!
America's effort to promote economic development in Africa will be eroded significantly if the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress do not work together to quickly extend a… Read more »
January 16, 2004
Sudan: Sudan Settlement Possible in 'Days', Says State Department's Top Africa Diplomat
Although the goal of a December 31 peace agreement in Sudan has been missed, the government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) have… Read more »
January 12, 2004
Somalia: Somaliland Deserves A Closer Look
At least a small part of the future of Africa is being played out in Somaliland, the northwest portion of Somalia that declared its independence in 1991. In its bustling but… Read more »
Mauritius: Country Seeks to Become a Global Cyber Island Paradise
First came California's Silicon Valley, then India took the honours. Next, if all goes according to plan, the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius hopes to lead the way in Africa,… Read more »
January 09, 2004
Rwanda: School-Going Girls Learn 'We Too Can Be Engineers,' Rwandan Teenager Tells Educators
In sub-Saharan Africa, 24 million girls did not attend school in 2002, according to the annual State of the World's Children report released last month by the United Nations'… Read more »
December 15, 2003
Ethiopia: 100 Reported Dead After Soldiers Target Civilians in Gambella
Soldiers in the town of Gambella, 450km (280 miles) west of Addis Ababa, are reported to have engaged since Saturday in violent attacks against leading members of a local ethnic… Read more »
December 08, 2003
Sudan: President Bush Telephones Bashir And Garang in Sudan
In a surprise move to propel Sudan towards a peace settlement, U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday telephoned Sudan president Omar al-Beshir and SPLM/A rebel leader, John… Read more »
December 04, 2003
Mauritius: High Literacy Due to Country's Size and Vision, Says Education Minister
The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has a population of just 1.2m. But it boasts a high literacy rate and a country that is technically bilingual - or trilingual, combining… Read more »
November 30, 2003
Uganda: How One Country Began Winning Against HIV
Uganda is globally famous for having achieved a massive reduction in HIV prevalence. According to the World Health Organisation, in the capital city, Kampala, the level of HIV… Read more »
November 19, 2003
Africa: 'Front Load' Africa's Development, Say UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinators
Foreign assistance has helped Ethiopia get through the droughts and food emergencies that have regularly battered the east African nation over the last five years, says Samuel… Read more »
November 12, 2003
Uganda: 'No More Problem' - Museveni Insists Relations with DR Congo are Good
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was last week in Washington, D.C., on a private working visit. He met travel industry companies to encourage them to bring tourists to his… Read more »
November 08, 2003
Uganda: Tourism Key to Uganda Economic Revitalization, Says Museveni
"When you are in space, you don't see Washington; you don't see the tall buildings of New York. You see the Great Wall of China and the great African Rift Valley," Ugandan… Read more »
November 07, 2003
Eritrea: What Next for Eritrea?
The decision of analyst Dan Connell to go public with his rejection of heavy-handed repression in Eritrea is only the latest sign of the painful reevaluation being undertaken by… Read more »
November 06, 2003
Eritrea: Enough! A Critique of Eritrea's Post-Liberation Politics
Dan Connell has been a 'participant-observer' of the Eritrean scene for nearly three decades, starting in the 1970s during the liberation struggle. He followed events in the… Read more »
October 22, 2003
Liberia: U.S. Funding for Liberia Awaits Resolution of House and Senate Differences
The U.S. Congress has approved emergency funding for Liberia as part of the $87 billion spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan that passed both the Senate and the House of… Read more »
October 20, 2003
Sudan: Powell to Kenya for Sudan Peace talks
Secretary of State Colin Powell will arrive in Kenya Tuesday to push for conclusion of peace talks on the Sudan underway in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. Powell will make the… Read more »
October 17, 2003
East Africa: House Subcommittee Approves Sanctions Bill to Pressure Ethiopia, Eritrea
In the U.S. Congress, Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Africa approved sending a "Resolution of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute Act of 2003" to the full House International… Read more »
October 08, 2003
Kenya: Kenya is Safe and a Gateway to Africa, Kibaki Tells Business Group
Expanded trade, investment and tourism is what Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki hopes will result from his two-day official visit to Washington this week. "Let us make this a… Read more »
October 07, 2003
Kenya: Kenyans Leave U.S. Bemused at Continued Travel Warning
At White House State dinners, toasts are usually fluffy words of undying friendship before a convivial and elegant meal; but Kenya President Mwai Kibaki spoke bluntly Monday night,… Read more »
October 06, 2003
Kenya: Kibaki Fails to Persuade Bush to Lift Warning Against Kenya Travel
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was warmly welcomed at the White House by President George W. Bush Monday morning but at the end of the Oval office discussion that lasted almost an… Read more »
October 02, 2003
Kenya: US Will Help Improve Anti-Terror Defences, Bush Promises
Although Kenyans are anxious to see U.S. government warnings against travel to their country lifted, "at the moment, Kenya is a place where [U.S.] citizens should be wary of… Read more »
September 30, 2003
Ethiopia: Meles Defends Demand for New Ruling on Border With Eritrea
The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki are two of many African leaders who attended the opening ceremony in Japan of the third Tokyo… Read more »
September 22, 2003
Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference
Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »
September 04, 2003
East Africa: Sudan Government, Rebels Still At Odds Over "Framework Document"
Speaking to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, representatives of the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army… Read more »
July 26, 2003
Africa: 'I Hope To Be Of Service' Says Mazimhaka
Patrick Mazimhaka, outgoing presidential advisor to the Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, was elected vice-chairman of the African Union Commission at the recent AU summit in Maputo,… Read more »
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