June 02, 2003
South Africa: Congressional Delegation to South Africa Challenged, Impressed
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A Congressional delegation returned to Washington, DC Saturday after a week-long trip to South Africa where they encountered efforts to come to grip with HIV/Aids that moved some… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Police Crack Down on Anti-Government Protests, Opposition Leaders Held
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A planned week of opposition demonstrations in Zimbabwe was disrupted by police, Monday, after the arrest of the country?s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, and other… Read more »
June 01, 2003
Africa: IMF Under Attack by African Finance Ministers
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South African finance minister Trevor Manuel slammed the International Monetary Fund today for secretly planning to divide its Africa Department along "colonial" lines into… Read more »
May 29, 2003
South Africa: Mbeki Still in Denial Says HIV Treatment Activist [interview]
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South Africa's most famous Aids activist is called Zackie Achmat. He has been HIV positive for more than ten years and leads the Treatment Action Campaign, which is fighting for… Read more »
May 27, 2003
Ghana: US Firm Opens Talks to End Dispute with Ghana's Government
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Negotiations are taking place this week in Ghana to resolve an ongoing dispute between the government and an American mining company that is complicating an otherwise cooperative… Read more »
May 22, 2003
Africa: Iraq Not Taking Money From Africa, Insists USAID Chief
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USAID Administrator Andrew S. Natsios has flatly denied that U.S. assistance money for Africa is being diverted to Iraq. "The reality is that all of the money we're spending in… Read more »
May 20, 2003
Liberia: Increased Pressure on Taylor as France Welcomes Opposition Leader
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For the first time since Charles Taylor became president of Liberia six years ago, the French foreign ministry has held official consultations with the leader of Liberia's… Read more »
May 19, 2003
Africa: 'Capacity building' Key To End of Drought-Famine Cycle, says Expert
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The past year's food emergency in Southern Africa's continues to have a devastating impact although the Food and Agriculture Organisation's forecast of a 'generally favourable'… Read more »
Africa: Fair Trade, Not Hand-outs, Say Ghanaian Ministers [interview]
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If, in the past, African nations relied on hand-outs and talked about the rich world's 'obligations' to the continent, they are sounding a different note these days - seeking… Read more »
May 17, 2003
South Africa: Nation Bids Farewell to Sisulu, 'Quiet Giant? of the Struggle
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The 'quiet giant? of the South African liberation struggle against apartheid, Walter Sisulu, was laid to rest at Croesus Cemetery near Soweto, Saturday, in the same way he lived… Read more »
May 09, 2003
Zimbabwe: Why Africa Only Has Four Months to Rescue Zimbabwe [opinion]
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Now that President Thabo Mbeki and his colleagues, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawi's Bakili Muluzi, are at last engaged in a serious effort to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis,… Read more »
Nigeria: U.S. Firm Halliburton Acknowledges Bribe To Nigerian Official
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Halliburton, the giant Texas based energy company once directed by Vice President Dick Cheney, acknowledged this week it paid a $2.4 million bribe to a Nigerian government official… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Politician Ouattara On Escape from Death Squads, Future of Unity Government [interview]
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Alassane Dramane Ouattara, known to his supporters by his initials, ADO, is a former prime minister of Cote d?Ivoire and head of the main opposition Rally of the Republicans (RDR)… Read more »
May 07, 2003
Africa: Mugabe's Exit 'Not Discussed' at Meeting with Presidents [interview]
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South African president, Thabo Mbeki, travelled to Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week on a whistle-stop diplomatic mission. Zimbabwe is in crisis and… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: 'Historic' Opportunity 'Critical' Moment In Congo, Say NGOs [document]
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International non-governmental organizations working in Congo have been closely following the recent progress made in the DRC on the road to peace and democracy. We consider the… Read more »
May 06, 2003
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid Hero Walter Sisulu dies at 90
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Tributes poured in Tuesday for the South African anti-apartheid hero, Walter Sisulu, who died Monday night in the arms of his wife and fellow liberation activist, Albertina, at… Read more »
May 05, 2003
Ethiopia: Pioneer Artist Skunder Boghossian Dies in Washington, DC
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Ethiopian artist and pioneer of modern African art Alexander Skunder Boghossian was found prone and unmoving in his Washington, DC apartment on Sunday by friends who visited to… Read more »
Zimbabwe: High-Level Talks End in Harare but Negotiations Continue [analysis]
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is considered the regional pariah of southern Africa in some Western capitals, whose leaders are pushing for him to stand down. But Mugabe?s… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Obasanjo, Mbeki, Muluzi hold talks with Mugabe, Tsvangirai
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The leaders of South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi flew to Harare first thing Monday for talks with their Zimbabwean counterpart, amid feverish speculation that President Robert… Read more »
May 02, 2003
Africa: Larger US Troop Presence May be Needed in Africa, Says NATO Commander
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In a new indication that Washington's anti-terrorism efforts may continue to involve U.S. troops in Africa, President George W.Bush declared that "from Pakistan to the Philippines… Read more »
Liberia: Peace Force Essential for Liberian Democracy, Says Opposition Leader [interview]
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the Security Council last week to seek "an early solution" to escalating fighting in Liberia, "whose deleterious effect is… Read more »
May 01, 2003
Ethiopia: Art from the Ethiopian Diaspora Featured at the Smithsonian Museum
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"Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora" will be at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC from May 1 to October 5, 2003. It is a… Read more »
April 30, 2003
Africa: African Stock Markets Have Scope to Expand
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"Something very exciting is happening" on Africa's stock exchanges, says Mark Malloch Brown, the head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). "Returns in Africa are… Read more »
Africa: Talks Aimed At Stopping 'Blood Diamonds' Flow Underway [interview]
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A three-day meeting of some 70 nations in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss implementation of a plan to eradicate the trade in "blood" or "conflict" diamonds winds up… Read more »
Africa: Act Quickly On Aids, President Urges Congress
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President George W. Bush Tuesday asked the Congress to hurry up and pass a five-year US$15bn initiative to combat HIV/Aids. "Time is not on our side, so I ask Congress to move… Read more »