November 19, 2003
Africa: 'Front Load' Africa's Development, Say UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinators
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Foreign assistance has helped Ethiopia get through the droughts and food emergencies that have regularly battered the east African nation over the last five years, says Samuel… Read more »
November 18, 2003
Nigeria: U.S.-Africa Ties, Boosted by Money for Liberia, Face New Complications Over Nigeria Sanctions
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When Congress unexpectedly added $200 million in humanitarian assistance for Liberia to the Iraq bill adopted earlier this month, proponents hoped the action would signal a renewed… Read more »
November 17, 2003
Nigeria: Shell Backs Health and Food Security Projects in Nigeria with Africare and USAID
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The Shell group of companies has pledged $18.5 million for health and development projects in Nigeria. The money will be invested through two "social partnerships" - an… Read more »
November 14, 2003
Africa: Community Involvement Necessary For Sustainable Tourism, Say Experts
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"Before, we just posed for pictures and let the tourists go. Then we said, 'Wait a minute! We are getting very little benefits from tourism activities,'" says Paramount Chief… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorian New Forces Spokesman Says Gbagbo Must Go, Accra Summit Failed [interview]
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West African leaders - including Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo - gathered for an emergency summit on Cote d?Ivoire in Ghana on Tuesday. The objective was to try to get the… Read more »
November 13, 2003
Nigeria: New Zeal for Sharia Penalties Reflects Political Climate, Says Rights Activist [interview]
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In late September this year, people all over the world breathed a sigh of relief after a Nigerian Sharia court upheld the appeal of Amina Lawal against her conviction for adultery.… Read more »
November 12, 2003
Africa: African Conservationists Highlight Successes [interview]
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Botswana's President Festus Gontenbanye Mogae speaks on African conservation efforts and wildlife protection at a Thursday symposium in Washington, DC, sponsored by the African… Read more »
Uganda: 'No More Problem' - Museveni Insists Relations with DR Congo are Good
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was last week in Washington, D.C., on a private working visit. He met travel industry companies to encourage them to bring tourists to his… Read more »
West Africa: West African Leaders Call for UN Peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
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West African leaders called on the United Nations Tuesday to convert the regional peacekeeping mission operating in troubled Cote d'Ivoire into a UN peacekeeping force. Read more »
Liberia: Sirleaf to Chair Commission on Good Governance: 'We Can't Slip Back'
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As part of the Liberian peace process agreed to during negotiations earlier this year in Ghana, Gyude Bryant, who chairs Liberia's interim government, has asked Ellen Johnson… Read more »
Liberia: Help Us Rebuild Our Hospital, Liberian Bishop Asks
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With peacekeepers deployed and an interim government in place in Liberia, how much is the humanitarian situation improving? United Methodist Bishop John Innis, who leads one of the… Read more »
November 08, 2003
Uganda: Tourism Key to Uganda Economic Revitalization, Says Museveni
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"When you are in space, you don't see Washington; you don't see the tall buildings of New York. You see the Great Wall of China and the great African Rift Valley," Ugandan… Read more »
November 07, 2003
Eritrea: What Next for Eritrea?
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The decision of analyst Dan Connell to go public with his rejection of heavy-handed repression in Eritrea is only the latest sign of the painful reevaluation being undertaken by… Read more »
November 06, 2003
Eritrea: Enough! A Critique of Eritrea's Post-Liberation Politics [opinion]
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Dan Connell has been a 'participant-observer' of the Eritrean scene for nearly three decades, starting in the 1970s during the liberation struggle. He followed events in the… Read more »
October 29, 2003
Africa: HIV in Africa - The "Myth" of Absorptive Capacity
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An official of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says that African nations can effectively absorb and spend more money than has been allocated to the battle… Read more »
October 27, 2003
Cote d'Ivoire: Seizure of U.S-Owned Ivorian Cell Phone Firm Ruptures Ties
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The American owners of a cellular telephone operator in C?te d'Ivoire that was shut down earlier this month are preparing a claim for damages. They charge the Ivorian government… Read more »
October 22, 2003
Liberia: U.S. Funding for Liberia Awaits Resolution of House and Senate Differences
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The U.S. Congress has approved emergency funding for Liberia as part of the $87 billion spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan that passed both the Senate and the House of… Read more »
October 20, 2003
Sudan: Powell to Kenya for Sudan Peace talks
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Secretary of State Colin Powell will arrive in Kenya Tuesday to push for conclusion of peace talks on the Sudan underway in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. Powell will make the… Read more »
Gambia: Independent Newspaper Attacked by Arsonists
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An independent Gambian newspaper with a history of reporting critically on the government of Yahya Jammeh has once again been the target of an attack apparently aimed at closing… Read more »
October 19, 2003
Congo-Kinshasa: Progress in Congo Being Made, Insists UN Official
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While acknowledging that there are still "wars going on all over the place" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Director for the Africa 1 Division in the United… Read more »
October 17, 2003
East Africa: House Subcommittee Approves Sanctions Bill to Pressure Ethiopia, Eritrea
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In the U.S. Congress, Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Africa approved sending a "Resolution of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute Act of 2003" to the full House International… Read more »
Liberia: Coalition Appeals to Americans to Pressure Congress for Liberia Peace Funds
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A non-partisan coalition of U.S. groups and individuals is appealing to Americans across the country to contact Congress in support of a $200 million emergency aid package for… Read more »
October 15, 2003
Liberia: 'We Need to Understand Where We Went Wrong,' says Brumskine [interview]
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Liberia's transitional government has been launched and Chairman Gyude Bryant has two years to set this battered country back on its feet. A compromise candidate selected as part… Read more »
October 13, 2003
Chad: President Deby Turns On Oil Pipeline - and a Path to Riches
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Landlocked, poor and underdeveloped, Chad joined Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other leading global oil-producing countries Friday, when President Idriss Deby formally inaugurated the… Read more »
Africa: Nigeria, Still Attracted by Gold
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With five new gold medals obtained this weekend, two of which were won in the men's and women's 100 meter, Nigeria has advanced a giant step in the standings of the 8th All African… Read more »