September 19, 2007
Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts
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The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »
Africa: Why Worry about Africa? [book listing]
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The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »
September 18, 2007
Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Backs SADC Talks
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative to promote a negotiated political solution in Zimbabwe offers the only realistic way out of the current crisis, and the… Read more »
September 17, 2007
Sierra Leone: Opposition Takes Power
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Sierra Leone's opposition All People's Congress (APC) has taken power by winning both presidential and parliamentary elections. Read more »
September 15, 2007
Uganda: Medical Aid Dispute 'Misunderstanding.' Says NGO
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The Ugandan mission of the aid organization, Médecins Sans Frontières-Spain, has described reports that it is administering HIV/AIDS and TB drugs that are not yet… Read more »
September 14, 2007
Sierra Leone: Koroma Looks Ahead to Election Win
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Ernest Bai Koroma has strengthened his claim to become the next president of Sierra Leone. Read more »
September 13, 2007
Ethiopia: Ogaden Leaders Accuse Govt of 'Genocide'
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Leaders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (OLNF), a rebel group fighting against the Ethiopian government, have accused the Ethiopian army of committing crimes… Read more »
Liberia: Bush Extends Stay for Liberians in U.S.
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Thousands of Liberians facing deportation from the United States were granted an 18-month extension by a presidential order published by the White House on Wednesday. Read more »
Sierra Leone: Opposition Holds Lead in Elections
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With nearly a million votes counted in Sierra Leone's presidential election, opposition challenger Ernest Koroma remains in the lead, according to the National Electoral… Read more »
South Africa: What Steve Biko Means for SA Today [opinion]
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Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region [document]
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In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »
September 12, 2007
Sierra Leone: Opposition Pulls Ahead in Election
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Early polling results announced by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), give opposition candidate Ernest Koroma an early lead in the country's presidential… Read more »
September 11, 2007
Zimbabwe: Fierce Mugabe Critic Resigns Over Scandal
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Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, the fierce critic of the Mugabe government who faces court action over an allegation that he had an affair with a married woman, has resigned his… Read more »
September 10, 2007
Sierra Leone: Voters Await Results After Tense Election
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Sierra Leoneans are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the second round of a presidential election which could see the ruling party deposed from office, agencies report. Read more »
Africa: Violence in Developing Countries [book review]
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As violence and war grip societies all over the world, social scientists, economists and scholars are rushing to answer the question "why?" Several explanations of the… Read more »
Africa: Resistance to Modernization in Africa [book review]
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The effectiveness of aid and development policies in Africa is almost always measured by scholars and policymakers. Similarly, support of or resistance to such policies is usually… Read more »
September 08, 2007
Morocco: Elections May Mark Islamist Revival
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A moderate Islamist group that had the third-highest number of seats in Morocco's lower chamber of Parliament expects to be the biggest beneficiary in the country's… Read more »
September 07, 2007
Africa: World Bank Hopes to Light Continent
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The World Bank hopes to bring affordable and environmentally-friendly lighting products to up to 250 million Africans by the year 2030. Read more »
September 06, 2007
Somalia: Crisis Among World's Worst, Says Rights Expert
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The scale of human rights abuses and the displacement of people in Somalia has made it among the world's worst situations of its kind, a rights expert has told a meeting in… Read more »
Somalia: Another Journalist Threatened
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The organising secretary of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Ali Moallim Isak, received threatening phone calls after two gunmen arrived at his office only to find that he… Read more »
September 05, 2007
Zimbabwe: U.S. Food Company Sold to Govt After 15-Month Review
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The leading American food manufacturer, H.J. Heinz Company, says its sale to the Zimbabwe government of a local subsidiary is in the best interests of both Heinz and its Zimbabwean… Read more »
September 04, 2007
South Africa: 'Diamonds, Gold, and War' Examines Imperial Power Struggles [book review]
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: the British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa Read more »
August 31, 2007
Sudan: Can Europe and China 'Save' Darfur? [guest column]
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After all the U.S. government's rhetoric about Darfur's genocide, and all its finger-wagging over the inaction of other nations, it is an instructive irony that the forces… Read more »
August 28, 2007
Sierra Leone: President Threatens to Declare Emergency
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President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, whose ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) faces the prospect of losing power in the second round of a presidential election,… Read more »
August 27, 2007
Uganda: More Than 70 Die in Road Accident
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The death toll in a major road accident in Uganda has risen to more than 70, agencies report. Read more »
