June 19

• Africa: Study - Rotavirus Vaccines Work Well in Developing Countries [guest column]

  Leaders of developing nations take note: a new study shows that rotavirus vaccines will have a powerful public health impact in your country. This pivotal study, just released in... Read more »

June 13

• Nigeria: Knotty Cassava Tubers Can Change a Nation

  When Mathius Karoni shops for bread at his local Park 'n' Shop supermarket, he's not thinking about the contribution he's making to Nigeria's national budget or to the farmers... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: President Mugabe Sets Election Date

  President Robert Mugabe has proclaimed July 31 as the date for Zimbabwe to hold general elections which are expected to end the power sharing deal with Prime Minister Morgan... Read more »

June 12

• Zimbabwe: Elections Must Be Credible, Transparent and Peaceful - U.S. Ambassador [guest column]

  U.S. policy toward Zimbabwe is guided by fundamental principles of rule of law, good governance, and human rights protection.  Our interests are first and foremost peace,... Read more »

• Nigeria: More Than Good Luck Needed to Foster Democracy [guest column]

  If governing Nigeria were easy, the country's last president, Umaru Musa Yar'adua, might not have disappeared from public view and proceeded to die in office, evidently from its... Read more »

June 10

• Africa: Can Innovation Solve Africa's Problems?

  allAfrica's Mantsadi Sepheka talks to the Africa Innovation Foundation and winners of the 2013 Innovation Prize to find the link between Africa's development challenges and... Read more »

• Africa: Fund Invests to Break 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Mother, Child Death [interview]

  The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) will invest U.S.$787 million (£2.7 billion) to tackle under-nutrition – which underlies over three million... Read more »

June 8

• Africa: Pulling Nigeria and Africa Towards Prosperity and Power - Moghalu [interview]

   In his latest book, Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu declines to echo the breathless prose of... Read more »

• Africa: Hope for Ending 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Malnutrition, Poverty

  Gently laying three-month-old Benjamin on a board to measure his length, Elizabeth Mumo, 28, is grateful for the weekend clinics in a makeshift health facility, run by a retired... Read more »

June 7

• Africa: 'Magnificent Strides' Against Malnutrition [interview]

  The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), will co-host a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger... Read more »

June 6

• Africa: Lancet Highlights Importance of Maternal, Child Nutrition [interview]

  A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008... Read more »

June 5

• West Africa: U.S. Offers Bounties for Information on Terror Suspects

  The United States this week announced that for the first time it is offering substantial rewards for information about leaders of West African terrorist organizations. Read more »

May 31

• Africa: Bold Goals, Measurement Needed for Progress Against Poverty

  With the expiration of the initiative still more than a year away, there is planning underway to move beyond the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at... Read more »

• Nigeria: Lowering Pesticide Exposure Risk With Mobile Phones [staff blog]

  John Gushit from the University of Jos' department of science in Nigeria nearly lost his eye when herbicide in a syringe he'd been working with splashed into it. "Only speed saved... Read more »

• South Africa: Entrepreneur Enters Forbes List

  According to a report by Forbe's Magazine, Sizewe Nzima, 21, has been named among the publication's list of 30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs. Read more »

• Africa: Literacy and Losing Vowels [staff blog]

  How will mobile devices enhance literacy in Africa? The answer, according to Donald Clark - outspoken  Scottish entrepreneur and blogger - who takes us a step back. Read more »

• Liberia: Energy, Regional Integration Will Fuel Growth - Finance Minister [interview]

  Amara Konneh has been the chief coordinator of Liberia's development strategy since his appointment as Planning and Economic Affairs Minister in 2008, a role he continued after... Read more »

May 30

• Africa: Learning Works Better When It's Done Together [staff blog]

  Making a video is a learning experience, and it doesn't have to end up online. If you leave a group of children alone with a device that's connected to the Internet, they can teach... Read more »

May 28

• Africa: Key African Ally Nigeria Should Get U.S. Support [guest column]

  During Secretary of State John F. Kerry's first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa last week, he had the opportunity to publicly bolster a key U.S. ally. Instead, he singled out... Read more »

• Liberia: From Stabilization to Transformation - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [interview]

  A decade after the worst fighting of its long conflict, which killed an estimated 200,000 of a pre-war population of 2.8 million and forcibly displaced a majority - as many as 1.8... Read more »

May 27

• Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman' [interview]

  Toyin Ojora-Saraki, founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal, newborn and child health and empowerment organization, has dedicated more than 20 years to... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Mugabe Blasts Mandela

  President Robert Mugabe criticised former South African president and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela for allegedly taking a soft stance on the white people through his... Read more »

• Africa: Let's Make the Next 50 Years Even Better for Children in Africa [guest column]

  This week, African leaders will gather in Ethiopia to celebrate 50 years since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity - now known simply as the African Union. It's an... Read more »

May 25

• Kenya: Hague Court Ruling Body Challenges African Union Over Kenya [guest column]

  The relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council has generated much discussion, criticism and controversy. Read more »

May 24

• Africa: Investing in Africa's Women

  Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Graca Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her... Read more »