December 08, 2005
Africa: Pay Attention to Africa's Strategic Importance, Policy Panel Concludes [interview]
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Africa has increasing strategic significance for the United States, an importance often overshadowed by a focus on humanitarian concerns, according to a report by a Task Force… Read more »
December 01, 2005
Africa: Zap Mama: A Journey Into Afro-European Music [interview]
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Marie Dauln,leader singer of Zap Mama, strode onto the stage looking regal in 5-inch chunky heel gold glitter covered go-go boots, flowing purple robe with one side riding half-way… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa [guest column]
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A controversy about preventing HIV/Aids - the most profound strategic threat to Africa's future - has been raging over the past year in Uganda, a country that registered one of the… Read more »
November 30, 2005
Africa: A Vital Weapon Against HIV/Aids [guest column]
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The worldwide destruction brought on by HIV/Aids cannot be overcome by an after-the-fact crisis management approach. We need a war mindset. The pandemic calls for a multi-pronged… Read more »
November 29, 2005
Senegal: Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal [book review]
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November 15, 2005
Liberia: Completed Tally Confirms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Winner in Liberia
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Liberia's National Election Commission (NEC) has released the completed tally of last week's presidential run-off showing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with 59.4 and George Weah with 40.6… Read more »
November 14, 2005
Zambia: National Malaria Control Program Expands, Intensifies with Lift from New Partners
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Although largely unnoticed in the developed world, malaria strikes 500 million people a year and kills nearly a million children younger than five, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.… Read more »
November 11, 2005
Liberia: Sirleaf Holds on to Large Lead in Liberia Presidential Race
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With 97 percent of all ballots counted, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is set to become the first woman to win a nationwide presidential election in Africa. Read more »
November 10, 2005
Liberia: As Results Pour In, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Maintains Lead in Liberia Election
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With vote counting from Tuesday's run-off presidential elections proceeding faster than the first round on October 11, Liberians may learn by the end of the week who they have… Read more »
November 09, 2005
Liberia: Early Returns from Liberia Show Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Lead
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There was no rush to the polls or long lines at most polling stations, when Liberians cast ballots in the country's first presidential run-off election on Tuesday. But reports from… Read more »
November 08, 2005
Liberia: Liberians Go To Polls To Select Peacetime President
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Heavy rains have loosed bridges from their moorings and made roadways into seas of mud, but long lines began forming hours before polls opened Tuesday morning in Liberia's… Read more »
November 07, 2005
Liberia: Weah and Sirleaf Close Out Campaigning As Liberia Prepares for First Presidential Run-off Race
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"I always thought the nickname 'Iron lady' referred to her indomitable state of mind," said one of the journalists in the convoy that took Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her caravan of… Read more »
November 01, 2005
Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery
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For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »
October 31, 2005
Liberia: Campaigning in Liberia's Run-Off Presidential Race Is Underway
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Campaigning for the run-off election in Liberia on November 8 for the presidency has begun at a lower volume than the first round, when hundreds of thousands of supporters of the… Read more »
October 26, 2005
Africa: Mobile Medics - Study Finds Heavy Toll from Physician Emigration
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Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden from the international movement of trained medical doctors to wealthy countries, according to a study published in Thursday's New… Read more »
October 25, 2005
Rwanda: Educators Explore Ways to Meet Millennium Development Goals
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Heads of two vastly different school systems have met in New York City this week to share ideas on the major restructuring challenge they both face. Rwanda's minister of Education,… Read more »
October 24, 2005
Africa: Leadership is the Weapon against African Poverty Says Hunger Project
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"Only Africans can lead Africa. Only Africans can shape Africa," said Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, in describing the challenges facing Africa in achieving the… Read more »
October 23, 2005
Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race
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With final results from Liberia's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »
Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race
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With final results from Liberia?s presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »
October 17, 2005
Liberia: As First Round Results Remain Stagnant, Liberian Elections Commission Chairman Receives Death Threats
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With the counting of votes nearing completion in Liberia's presidential and legislative elections last week, the chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Frances… Read more »
Sudan: Powell Says The World Has Not Fully Faced Darfur Genocide in Sudan
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Violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur continues to be "a situation that the world has not fully faced," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday night as he… Read more »
October 15, 2005
Liberia: Liberians Look Towards Runoff As Vote Counts Nears Completion
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With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted in Liberia's presidential election, it appears that no single candidate will receive more than half the votes needed to win an… Read more »
October 14, 2005
Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger [interview]
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As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »
October 12, 2005
Liberia: All Quiet in Monrovia As People Nervously Await Elections Results
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In the words of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Liberia, Mr. Alan Doss, "it was a great day for Liberia." After six weeks of a mostly civil… Read more »
October 10, 2005
Liberia: Peaceful Campaign Ends in Liberia
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For a country that has just emerged out of one of the deadliest civil wars in Africa's modern history, Liberia has managed to conduct a surprisingly peaceful campaign leading to… Read more »