January 29, 2001
Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila To Visit U.S.
Joseph Kabila, the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will make a two-day visit to the United States the Department of State said Monday. Read more »
January 22, 2001
Senegal: M'bow Of Senegal Among Schomburg Honorees
Professor Amadou Mahtar M'bow, former director of UNESCO, will be one of six persons honored during the 75th anniversary celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black… Read more »
December 20, 2000
Africa: National Summit On Africa Struggles To Survive
For most of the 10 months that have followed last February's National Summit on Africa, uncertainty about the future has hovered over the body that grew out of the 5-day meeting. Read more »
December 08, 2000
Africa: OPIC Puts Out Call For New Proposals To Manage Africa Infrastructure Fund
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is seeking new management for its $350m Africa Infrastructure Fund. Read more »
December 06, 2000
Nigeria: Economic Delegation In U.S. To Push Partnership
The Joint Economic Partnership Committee (JEPC) began it's third session in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, aiming to consolidate initiatives mooted during President Clinton's visit to… Read more »
December 01, 2000
Africa: Major Investment House May Lose Key Africa Fund
The US$350m New Africa Infrastructure Fund, backed by the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is up for grabs because of the failure of the firm… Read more »
November 16, 2000
Zimbabwe: Help Us Get Mugabe Out, Delegation Asks U.S. Officials
Zimbabwe's economic slide will accelerate and political tensions heighten over the next two months, warned a delegation of the Movement for Democratic Change, in Washington to meet… Read more »
October 31, 2000
Africa: Africa Offers Opportunity, Officials At World Bank/IMF Meeting Say
Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda appeared at a reception welcoming participants to the Africa Forum 2000 that got underway in Washington Monday. Read more »
October 10, 2000
Africa: Still No U.S. Money For UN Peacekeeping In Africa
As Congress nears recess, all money for peackeeping missions in Africa remain zeroed out of a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001 that provides… Read more »
September 29, 2000
Liberia: President Clinton Orders Expulsion Of Liberians Deferred
Thousands of Liberians threatened with being returned to Liberia after they fled civil conflict there during the 1990s have won a temporary respite. Read more »
September 28, 2000
Liberia: Liberians Fear Deportation From U.S.
Thousands of Liberians who fled civil conflict in their homeland during the 1990s waited anxiously all day Thursday for word that their expired official "temporary protected… Read more »
August 28, 2000
Nigeria: Stay In The Union, Clinton Tells Nigerians
U.S. President Clinton has told Nigerian leaders they should resist the temptation to leave the Union. Nigeria, he told them, should draw its strength from its ethnic, cultural and… Read more »
Africa: US Supports UN Permanent Seat for the Africa
The United Sates supports the granting of a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council to the African continent, President Bill Clinton said this weekend, during his… Read more »
Nigeria: Oil Price Too High Says Clinton
President Clinton broached the subject of oil prices in his talks with President Obasanjo this weekend. Prices per barrel have topped $30 and the US would like to see the price at… Read more »
Nigeria: Clinton Lays It On The Line For Nigeria
President Clinton has spelled out the major economic challenges facing Nigeria and warned that debt relief will only come once the country has demonstrated that it will not… Read more »
August 27, 2000
Nigeria: Diary Of A Summit - How Can We Help The West To 'Get It' About Africa?
Marie Nelson, head of the Rainbow Push Coalition's Washington DC bureau, is travelling with President Clinton's entourage. Read more »
Burundi: Poor Prospects For Signing Of Full Burundi Accord In Tanzania
Although former South African President Nelson Mandela just may pull a rabbit out of a hat, no one in the Clinton administration expects that agreement on a Burundi peace accord… Read more »
August 26, 2000
Nigeria: Clinton Welcome Ceremony Curtailed By Security
President Bill Clinton arrived in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, this morning for a two-day visit, accompanied by his daughter Chelsea and a large delegation of administration… Read more »
Nigeria: A Mountain Of Expectations Awaits Clinton
In Pyakasa village, residents are anxiously awaiting the arrival of United States President, Bill Clinton with a long list of demands. Read more »
August 25, 2000
Nigeria: Why Is This Man Here?
In Nigeria, where debate is a favorite national pastime, President Clinton is topic of the day. Read more »
August 24, 2000
Nigeria: Nigeria's Economy Ripe For Investment
President Bill Clinton's three-day state visit to Nigeria promises to be a new tonic in reviving a relationship that went sour a few years ago. Read more »
Nigeria: Clinton Off To Nigeria, Tanzania This Weekend
On the first day of his short but tightly- packed visit to Nigeria, aside from airport ceremonies that will include receiving a key to the city of Abuja, President Clinton will… Read more »
Nigeria: US Policy on Nigeria Dominated By Self-Interest, Critics Say
The US has four policies on Nigeria, said African Affairs analyst Michael Fleshman this week: "Oil, oil, oil - and peacekeeping". Read more »
August 23, 2000
Nigeria: Clinton Official Sets Broad Agenda For Nigeria Visit
AllAfrica.com's Charlie Cobb spoke to Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs about President Clinton's imminent visit to Nigeria and Tanzania Read more »
July 28, 2000
Africa: Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act Passes Unanimously
The House unanimously approved the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000 Thursday. The bill allocates $300 million to the Treasury Department over the next two fiscal… Read more »