January 18, 2006
Liberia: "A New Heart for Our Nation" - Liberia Inaugural Sermon [document]
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Sermon Delivered on Sunday, January 15, 2006 at the Thanksgiving and Intercessory Service for the Inauguration of the New Government for the Republic of Liberia at First United… Read more »
January 17, 2006
Liberia: Text of Inaugural Address by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia [document]
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Following is the text of the Inaugural Address, as delivered on Monday, January 16, on the Capitol grounds in Monrovia, by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Read more »
January 16, 2006
Liberia: Liberians Welcome President's Pledge to Curb Corruption, Create Jobs
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf walked home today, through cheering, crying crowds that parted reluctantly as security officials cleared a path. Along the boulevard leading from the… Read more »
January 06, 2006
Africa: Grooving in the Diaspora: Soulf?ge Revives a Movement for Pan-African Renaissance [interview]
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"Afro diasporic groovilicious funkidociousness" is how they describe their music, "A movement" is what they call their activism - and it's all for the love of Sweet Mama Africa.… Read more »
December 26, 2005
Uganda: Street Children Falling Through Cracks in Response to War and Aids
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The small, dirty hands obsessively fold and refold a wrinkled shirt on the long conference table, as if checking to make sure it's still there, and this isn't a dream. Read more »
December 13, 2005
Liberia: Pledging 'Government of Inclusion', President-Elect Wants Liberians to' See Hope in Their Future' [interview]
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a veteran development official and politician who scored an unexpected victory in Liberia's presidential run-off last month, is currently on a brief private… Read more »
Liberia: U.S. Reiterates Fairness of Liberia Election As Sirleaf Arrives for Top-Level Meetings in Washington
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Elections in Liberia "were free and fair and the most successful in Liberia's history," a State Department official said Tuesday. "Any opposition allegations of… Read more »
Liberia: Liberia's Methodist Bishop Appeals to Church Member Weah to Accept Election Results [document]
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My Fellow Liberians, Brothers and Sisters of the Faith Community in Liberia, Our Young People, the Precious Jewels and Future Leaders of the Blessed Nation, Liberia: Read more »
December 11, 2005
Liberia: Showered With Enthusiasm, Liberia's President-Elect Receives High-Level Reception in Washington [analysis]
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Having beaten the odds to win (helped by some polls and a helicopter), Africa's first female elected president faces daunting challenges. Read more »
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 »
