August 02, 2004
South Africa: The Private Sector, Political Elites and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa [analysis]
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Why are most Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa poor and why are they getting poorer while most people in the rest of the world are becoming better off? The World Bank and the… Read more »
July 30, 2004
Africa: New Study Shows Aid for Short Term Projects Has Positive Effects on Economic Growth
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The Center for Global Development has released a new study that examines the growth effects of short-impact aid - such as infrastructure building, agricultural or industry support,… Read more »
Liberia: Refugees `Wasting' in U.S. While Wanting to Work [interview]
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Torli H. Krua, founder and president of Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), came from Liberia shortly after the war started and is an active advocate for African refugees. Read more »
July 29, 2004
Mozambique: `Women Have Society in Their Hands' [interview]
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Ana Rita Geremias Sithole is visiting the United States on a three-week study tour with eight other female African leaders as a part of the U.S. State Department's International… Read more »
Sudan: Crisis in Darfur Does Not Require Military Intervention, Says U.S. Official
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The United States is waiting for Sudan to act responsibly in the Darfur crisis and is not planning a military intervention, said Charles Snyder, principal deputy assistant… Read more »
July 28, 2004
South Africa: Ten Years Later, Shared Interest Continues Anti-Poverty Mission [interview]
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Shared Interest, an organization that guarantees loans for thousands of black South Africans, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. In an interview with AllAfrica's Maria… Read more »
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Issues First Ever 'Genocide Emergency'
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The Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a "genocide emergency" yesterday, red-flagging the continuing violence in Darfur, Sudan. This is… Read more »
July 23, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Grave Humanitarian Crisis Worsening In Eastern Congo, Where 3.5m Have Already Perished
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Violence continues in eastern Congo, where rebel groups have clashed with United Nations peacekeepers and government forces, in violation of the peace accords signed in 2003, Rep.… Read more »
Liberia: ESPN Honors Liberian Soccer Star George Weah
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Retired Liberian soccer star George Weah was honored this month at the 12th annual ESPY awards organized by the U.S. sports television network ESPN. Weah received the Arthur Ashe… Read more »
Sudan: 'Call Darfur a Genocide' Say Coalition Protestors
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Hundreds of protestors rallied Thursday in front of the White House, calling on the United States and the UN Security Council to officially call the crisis in Darfur, western… Read more »
July 21, 2004
Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building [interview]
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In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »
South Africa: Clegg Returns to U.S. for Major Tour [interview]
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Johnny Clegg is a singer/songwriter who grew up in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia and is best known for his work with Sipho Mchunu as part of the band Juluka. His later work… Read more »
July 20, 2004
Africa: U.S. Must `Walk the Walk' in Africa [interview]
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Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Chair in Strategic Studies and serves as an Associate in the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Crocker's… Read more »
Africa: Conservation Should Be Major U.S.-Africa Policy Issue, Report Says [interview]
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Nicholas P. Lapham, Vice President for Policy at Conservation International, joined other experts in making recommendations for U.S.-Africa policy in a Center for Strategic and… Read more »
July 14, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Lawmaker and Church Leader Arrested to Highlight Darfur Deaths
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The campaign to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan has gotten a publicity boost this week from the arrests at the Sudan Embassy in Washington, DC. of U.S.… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Africa: `Spend More Money and Put More People in Africa' [interview]
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Paying more attention to Africa will help both Africa and the United States, according to Robert Rotberg, a foreign policy scholar who has written extensively about the continent.… Read more »
Sudan: Panelists Urge the World to Act on Darfur, Sudan Official Denies Government Involvement
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The international community has a responsibility to act immediately to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)… Read more »
July 08, 2004
Sudan: Act Now to Stop Dying on a Massive Scale in Darfur, U.S. Lawmakers Urge
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A growing chorus of voices in the U.S. Congress is appealing for urgent action to halt the ongoing killings in the Darfur region of Sudan. Two Republican U.S. lawmakers who visited… Read more »
Nigeria: General Babangida Should Be Nigeria's Next President, Ex-Minister Says [interview]
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Nigerians take politics seriously. The fact that the country has been ruled by military regimes for 29 of its 41 years of independence has not dampened political fervor. Since… Read more »
July 07, 2004
Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis [interview]
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James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »
July 02, 2004
Africa: Agoa Key To An Expanding Relationship with Africa, Says Top U.S. Trade Aide [interview]
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Florizelle Liser has spent twenty years developing and implementing policy at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). She currently serves as assistant U.S.… Read more »
June 24, 2004
Sudan: 'Call the Atrocities In Darfur By Their Rightful Name'
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President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell were urged Wednesday by a coalition of members of the U.S. Congress and civil society to declare the humanitarian crisis… Read more »
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Suspends Normal Operations To Call Attention to Darfur
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum suspended regular activities for the first time in its history Thursday for a half hour program on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan that… Read more »
Sudan: Unicef Takes Out Loans to Bring Aid to Darfur: Less Than 'One Piece of Plastic Per Family' [interview]
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Julianna Lindsey is a program officer for the United Nations Children's Fund's Humanitarian Response Unit. She traveled through Sudan for five weeks coordinating Unicef support for… Read more »
June 23, 2004
Sudan: `Genocide Unfolding': Physicians Group Faults Sudan Government, Lack of World Response [interview]
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As part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights, John Heffernan spent two weeks on the Sudan-Chad border, visiting refugees from western Sudan's Darfur region. About half of the… Read more »