October 10, 2007
Africa: War Costs Continent U.S. $18 Billion Annually
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A new study shows that conflicts in Africa cost the continent over 300 billion U.S. dollars between 1990 and 2005 – an amount equivalent to all the international aid received… Read more »
October 09, 2007
Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election [book listing]
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Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »
October 05, 2007
South Africa: Arrest Warrant Issued for Police Chief
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An arrest warrant has been issued for South Africa's police chief and the president of Interpol Jackie Selebi. Read more »
October 04, 2007
Nigeria: Mixed Reactions After 47 Years of Independence
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"Take a flag," Rosemary Obelu asks of each person entering Eagle Square, the Abuja site of presidential inaugurations and special events in Nigeria. Her fingers are… Read more »
South Africa: Thousands Rescued From Gold Mine
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Thousands of miners are being rescued from Elandsrand gold mine near Johannesburg, where they have been trapped since Wednesday morning. Read more »
Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection [book listing]
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Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »
Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building [book listing]
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Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »
October 03, 2007
Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Acts on Human Rights
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The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill supporting human rights and democracy in Ethiopia. Read more »
Ethiopia: Advocate Says Ogaden Crisis Strikingly Similar to Darfur
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A human rights advocate has told the United States Congress that the current situation in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia has striking similarities to Darfur in the run-up to… Read more »
October 02, 2007
Sudan: Elders Visit Darfur For First Mission
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A group of world-renowned humanitarians is visiting Sudan to address the “immense human suffering” in the Darfur’s ongoing crisis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Senegal's President Plans Visit
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has announced plans to visit Zimbabwe this month to suggest an African Union-led mediation process to President Robert Mugabe. Wade told a… Read more »
Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement [book listing]
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Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »
October 01, 2007
Senegal: President Wade Wants 'More Fair' Trade
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a "level field" for free trade with Africa that would eliminate "unfair" agricultural subsidies and encourage… Read more »
Africa: The Rise of African Hip Hop [column]
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Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s, was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua [book listing]
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Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »
Africa: AllAfrica Opens News Center and Health Office in Monrovia [announcement]
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AllAfrica Global Media today opened an online international news processing center in the capital of Liberia that will also serve as the hub for HealthAfrica. Read more »
September 27, 2007
Liberia: Governance Ranking Expected to Improve in Next Ibrahim Survey
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The business tycoon whose foundation this week published a new survey ranking Africa''s governments,– in which Liberia scored poorly,– has stressed that the… Read more »
Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica [book listing]
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AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »
September 26, 2007
Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers
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Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »
September 25, 2007
Zimbabwe: Stop Rights Violations Now, Says Tutu
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South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday made a new attack on human rights violations in Zimbabwe. He said in a statement he was "devastated" by the… Read more »
Africa: New Governance Index Is 'An African Effort' for Development [interview]
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The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of… Read more »
Africa: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S Congress
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were the two key government institutions in Washington… Read more »
Africa: New Survey Picks Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations
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Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: Aid Critical To Ensuring Benefits From Trade [guest column]
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While developing and industrialized countries continue to wrestle in the Doha Round of negotiations to reach a new international trade agreement, there is increasing recognition… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Children Caught in Crossfire in DRC [interview]
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned in recent days that fighting in the eastern Congo is placing children in an increasingly vulnerable position –… Read more »