February 11, 2005
South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation
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In his ?State of the Nation? address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which ?has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »
South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address
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President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of C?te d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »
February 09, 2005
Africa: African Solutions To African Problems: A Slogan Whose Time Has Passed [opinion]
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Last month, African Heads of State converged on Abuja, Nigeria, for a summit meeting of the African Union (AU), the organization that covers all of the continent's 53 member… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Ethiopia: We're Making Progress on Democracy and Aids, Says Ethiopia's Meles [2005] [interview]
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Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise
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"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »
January 28, 2005
Angola: Book Outlines Trees, Misses the Forest [book review]
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Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. Tony Hodges. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 236 pp. $22.95. Read more »
January 26, 2005
West Africa: Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl [book review]
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Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. John M. Chernoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 496 pp. $65.00, cloth. $22.50 paper. Read more »
January 19, 2005
Zimbabwe: Man Discovers Relative's Past in Dust Diaries [book review]
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The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps. Owen Sheers. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 310 pp. $23.00 cloth. Read more »
January 05, 2005
South Africa: Novel Explores Women's Experiences in Prison [book review]
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Journey to Myself: Writings by Women from Prison in South Africa. Edited by Julia Landau. Rondebosch, South Africa: Footprints, 2004. 80 pp. Read more »
December 15, 2004
Rwanda: Conflict With DRC Inevitable Without Action From the International Community - Top Official [interview]
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In the past few months, Rwanda's government has increasingly insisted on action from the international community to combat the threat it says is posed by the ex-FAR, Rwanda's… Read more »
South Africa: Rainbow Nation Pursues `Elusive Equity' [interview]
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Ten years after the fall of apartheid, many wonder whether South Africa's new government has the ability to keep its reforms afloat. With the belief that equity in society begins… Read more »
December 13, 2004
Nigeria/Tunisia: Enyimba Wins CAF Premiership Second Year Running
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Some 40,000 Nigerian football fans gathered in Abuja's National Stadium Sunday were given an early Christmas present as Enyimba of Aba State won the Confederation of African… Read more »
December 03, 2004
Africa: Morocco Added to Eligibility List for Millennium Challenge Account
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Morocco is the only country added to the eligibility list for the 2005 Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), U.S. officials said in November. Cape Verde is not eligible for 2005… Read more »
Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana [book review]
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Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »
Kenya: Playwright Tries His Hand at the Novel Format [book review]
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Before The Rooster Crows. Peter Kimani. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. 174 pp. $16.95, cloth. African Books Collective. Read more »
December 02, 2004
Nigeria: PAHF Opens New Syringe Factory in Port Harcourt
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Every year, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria cause more than five million deaths and cost the African continent hundreds of millions of dollars. With levels of public health spending… Read more »
December 01, 2004
Africa: World Aids Day 2004 Addresses Plight of Women and Girls
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If HIV/Aids is to be defeated, the world needs to work together to make a difference in the lives of those who have been infected and affected, especially women, Lapologang Lekoa,… Read more »
November 30, 2004
Botswana: Reaching Out With Anti-Aids Strategies for Women and Girls [document]
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Presentation by H.H. Mr. L.C. Lekoa, Botswana's Ambassador to the United States, for World Aids Day at "Reaching Women and Girls," a conference co-hosted by CSIS Task Force and the… Read more »
Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries [document]
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »
November 18, 2004
South Africa: Aelred Stubbs, Spiritual Mentor and Editor, Dies [opinion]
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When nine leaders of the black consciousness movement were put on trial in Pretoria in 1975, many of them far from home, and public interest ebbed during the protracted State case,… Read more »
November 10, 2004
Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption [interview]
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Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »
Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence [book review]
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Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 Read more »
Africa: New Book on Aids Pandemic Paints a Troubling Picture [book review]
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The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global Aids Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. Greg Behrman. Free Press, 2004. 368 pp. $17.50… Read more »
November 03, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations
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The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »
November 01, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Opens in Tokyo
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Public-private partnerships between Asia and Africa topped the agenda Monday during the opening of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) in Tokyo, Japan, as… Read more »