April 25, 2006
Liberia: U.S. Senate To Consider Vote on Liberia Aid
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The United States Senate may vote as early as Tuesday on a budget amendment proposed by Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee that would provide $80 million in immediate assistance to… Read more »
April 21, 2006
Nigeria: Govt Free of Most Foreign Debt, Pledges Social Investments
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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria, says that a significant portion of the nation's revenues can be re-targeted to improve the lives of Nigerians, now that… Read more »
April 17, 2006
Liberia: Sirleaf Administration Issues 'First 150 Days' Report
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When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Liberia's post-war president on January 16, she outlined a number of initiatives aimed at producing tangible "deliverables" for the… Read more »
Liberia: We Want to Restore Our Dignity and See Liberia Prosper Again - Sirleaf [document]
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During her visit to the United States last month, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed a gathering of development experts at a luncheon on March 20 hosted by… Read more »
April 12, 2006
Africa: U.S. Efforts on Human Rights, Democracy Detailed in New Report [interview]
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Earlier this April, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the United States Department of State released its annual report on U.S. support for human rights and… Read more »
April 08, 2006
Guinea: Is There a Captain Onboard? [guest column]
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The stakes are high in the current political crisis in the Republic of Guinea, whose people are among the world's poorest. In this part of west Africa, where Liberia and Sierra… Read more »
April 07, 2006
Benin: Music Lets Me See Beyond Color, Beyond Language - Ang?lique Kidjo [interview]
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Ang?lique Kidjo, one of Africa's most prolific and best known artistes, is from Benin in West Africa. She started singing at age six, producing songs that span music genres and… Read more »
March 30, 2006
Liberia: Sirleaf Addresses Nation on Taylor Capture and Policy Priorities [document]
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Nation-wide Address By Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia Read more »
Nigeria: Obasanjo Says Nigeria 'Vindicated' by Capture of Taylor, Speaks of Health and Agriculture Policies
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During a press conference prior to his meeting Wednesday with U.S. President George Bush, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo read a prepared statement about Charles Taylor, the… Read more »
March 28, 2006
Liberia: Allen Brown Puts His Faith and His Money in His Country's Need for Lodging [AllAfrica Profile]
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Crunching across shell-encrusted gravel toward a ruined, beachfront mansion not far from downtown Monrovia, the capitol of Liberia, Allen Brown II looks like a happy man. Never… Read more »
March 24, 2006
Zambia: Food Program Helps More Get Benefits of HIV Treatment
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Scattered wheelbarrows litter the ground outside Kanyama Health Center's anti-retroviral clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. Just beyond them, a long line of patients has formed, each… Read more »
Liberia: It's the Little Things - A Reflection on Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Journey to the Presidency [guest column]
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It's the night after Liberia's historic inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected president of an African nation. About a dozen close friends and… Read more »
March 22, 2006
Guinea: No Coups Are Good Coups [guest column]
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Last Saturday, the Republic of Guinea's second president, Lansana Cont?, was evacuated from Conakry to Geneva, gravely ill. Twenty-two years ago, in March 1984, the first… Read more »
March 20, 2006
Sudan: Democratic Leader Calls for a Stop to 'Human Carnage' in Darfur
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House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) delivered an emotional account of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which she called "a challenge to the conscience… Read more »
March 17, 2006
Sudan: Matching Rhetoric with Action in Darfur [guest column]
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Last month, in the town of Mershing, South Darfur, there was chaos and carnage. On a scorching day in February, four hundred Janjaweed militiamen attacked, firing… Read more »
March 16, 2006
Liberia: 'Tremendous Potential', Says Investment Commission Chairman [interview]
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Since Liberian President William R. Tolbert was assassinated in 1980 by junior military officers, the country has been in turmoil, with rival armed factions competing for power.… Read more »
March 15, 2006
Liberia: President Sirleaf Thanks U.S. Congress, Asks for Continuing Support
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Speaking before a joint meeting of the United States Congress on Wednesday, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf asked for American support to help her country "become a… Read more »
Africa: Women Are Africa's Political Hope [guest column]
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress today. This historic honor, bestowed sparingly on international dignitaries, is a fitting… Read more »
March 14, 2006
Guinea: Bauxite Investment Spurs West African Hopes
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In one of the world's 10 poorest countries, where life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years, where 75 per cent of the women are illiterate, and where almost everyone is unemployed,… Read more »
Liberia: AllAfrica Forum: Preserving Liberia's Hard-Won Peace
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf last week won a promise of French help in recovering from a quarter century of turmoil and 14 years of war. This week she is making an… Read more »
March 10, 2006
Liberia: Sirleaf to Address U.S. Congress and Meet Bush as Supporters Press for Aid to Rebuild Liberia
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will begin an official visit to Washington with a speech next week to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, meeting… Read more »
March 09, 2006
Zimbabwe: Radio Voice of the People Trustees Face Trial Over Program [interview]
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A case against the six trustees of Zimbabwe's Radio Voice of the People (VOP) will go forward after Magistrate Rebecca Takavadi ruled that the communication trust may have been… Read more »
March 07, 2006
Africa: Hedge Funds and Basketball Unite to Fight Malaria, Save African Children
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On March 15 when the New York Knicks basketball team faces off against the Atlanta Hawks in New York's Madison Square Garden, shots taken in the stands may steal the show from… Read more »
February 28, 2006
Liberia: Liberia's Sirleaf Seeks Civic Action, International Aid [interview]
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As President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepares to make an official visit to the United States in mid-March, pressure is growing for the addition of $80 million in reconstruction and… Read more »
February 22, 2006
Zimbabwe: What Happens after Mugabe? [book review]
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What Happens After Robert Mugabe Read more »
