June 08, 2005
South Africa: Corruption Trial Pressures Mbeki, Facing G8 Summit, to Fire Deputy
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South Africa's most important corruption trial since liberation has ended in a 15-year prison sentence for Schabir Shaik, financial adviser to the country's deputy president, Jacob… Read more »
Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora [book review]
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In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »
June 03, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Presses G8 to Fund Africa Action Plan [press conference]
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With African issues high on the agenda of the summit of the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations next month, President Thabo Mbeki of South African appealed to… Read more »
June 02, 2005
Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister [interview]
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In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha [interview]
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Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
May 25, 2005
South Africa: Straddling Two Worlds - An Israeli Journalist Writes about his South African Childhood [interview]
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Hirsh Goodman grew up in South Africa and as a young adult emigrated to Israel. His new memoir is called Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience… Read more »
May 20, 2005
Senegal: Africa Must Have Veto on UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Says
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The African continent is entitled to at least one veto-wielding member at the United Nations Security Council, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Senegal's minister of foreign affairs, said… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come' [guest column]
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As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
May 10, 2005
Africa: Powell Defends Obasanjo on Taylor and Calls for Greater Support for Africa
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be asked "to be unfaithful to the commitment he made" to provide asylum to former… Read more »
May 06, 2005
Nigeria: Debt Relief Critical to Development and Democracy, Senators Say [interview]
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In a first for the Nigerian National Assembly, a delegation of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and officials from the Debt Management Office traveled to… Read more »
May 04, 2005
Africa: Life After the Presidency [guest column]
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"What does an African head of state do when he leaves office?" said Professor Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa during an African… Read more »
April 28, 2005
Liberia: U.S. Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor
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The United States government is taking steps to increase pressure on high-level individuals who are suspected of fueling conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the last… Read more »
April 21, 2005
Africa: Jendayi Frazer Tapped for State Department Africa Post
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The top Africa policymaker in the U.S. Department of State, Constance Berry Newman, has submitted her resignation, according to several government sources who asked not to be… Read more »
Ghana: Erosion of Rights Has Divided Ghana and Must Be Reversed [guest column]
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Reflections on the Work of the National Reconciliation Commission Read more »
April 20, 2005
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Tapped by Time
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Canada's former United Nations ambassador, Stephen Lewis, who serves as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, has been named by Time magazine in… Read more »
April 15, 2005
Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book [book review]
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Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator [interview]
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After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
April 06, 2005
Africa: African Authors to Speak at New York Literature Festival
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The first-ever New York Festival of International Literature features writers from more than 45 countries, including African authors Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,… Read more »
March 31, 2005
Madagascar: Madagascar Made 'Extraordinary' Effort To Become First Millennium Account Recipient - Applegarth [interview]
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors announced mid-March that Madagascar will receive the first funding from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid… Read more »
March 24, 2005
Zimbabwe: Death by Denial: a Case for Zimbabwe [opinion]
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It is difficult to overstate the trauma and hardships that the increase in Aids-related morbidity and mortality has brought upon children in Zimbabwe. According to UNICEF, one in… Read more »
March 12, 2005
Africa: 'Hard-Hitting' Report Needs Grass Roots Support To Turn Bold Recommendations Into Policy, Amoako Says [interview]
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Declaring the living conditions for most Africans to be "intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind," a commission of imminent international figures established by… Read more »
February 25, 2005
Nigeria: 'Richer' Relationship the Result of Nigeria's Democratic Transformation, Despite Flaws, Says U.S. Ambassador
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For the past nine months, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria has been John Campbell, a career foreign service officer who was serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of… Read more »
Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been [book review]
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Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »
February 20, 2005
South Africa: Aids Underlies Sharp Rise in South Africa's Death Rate
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New South African government statistics show that the number of reported deaths rose by a dramatic 57 percent between 1997 and 2002, mostly as a consequence of tuberculosis,… Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Criticizes Debilitating Costs of Telecommunications
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Hopes for cheaper telecommunications for South Africa have been raised by President Thabo Mbeki, who declared in his State of the Nation address that it was ?unacceptable? that… Read more »