December 02, 2003
Namibia: 'The Disease Is Here, So We Must Fight it Here' [interview]
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Dr. Libertine Amathila, Namibia's Minister of Health and Social Services, has been a leader in the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa. Trained as a medical doctor, she has… Read more »
December 01, 2003
Africa: US Religious Leaders Tell President Bush to Do More on Aids
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In a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush Monday, 85 inter-faith religious leaders said more effort is needed from the United States if the HIV/Aids fight is to be effective.… Read more »
Africa: Scale Up Treatment - But Don't Forget Prevention, Says Gayle [interview]
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As the HIV pandemic has become increasingly prominent as an international public policy issue, Dr. Helene D. Gayle has emerged as a central figure in governmental and… Read more »
Africa: Deciding Who Should Be First to Get the Drugs [analysis]
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In Sub-Saharan Africa about 27 million adults are currently living with HIV/Aids. Yet according to the World Health Organisation, just 1% of HIV positive people in the region have… Read more »
November 30, 2003
Ghana: Aids Treatment Plan Begins In January [interview]
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Ghana's Aids Commission was set up three years ago, getting legal status in 2001. The Commission reports directly to President John Agyekum Kufuor and it has 46 members, including… Read more »
Uganda: How One Country Began Winning Against HIV [interview]
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Uganda is globally famous for having achieved a massive reduction in HIV prevalence. According to the World Health Organisation, in the capital city, Kampala, the level of HIV… Read more »
November 26, 2003
Africa: HIV/Aids Money, Millennium Challenge Account Funds On Hold As Senate Adjourns
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After wrangling over everything from funding energy development to Medicare, the U.S. Senate has fled Washington for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays without managing to… Read more »
November 21, 2003
Africa: Africa Numbers Still Grim But World Bank Has 'Learned', Says Bank Economic Chief
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Although four or five countries are doing well, most of Africa is not, says the World Bank's new chief economist, Francois Bourguignon. When you look at the distribution of GDP… Read more »
West Africa: Ecowas Chairman Kufuor Speaks on Faltering Ivorian Peace Talks [interview]
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Cote d'Ivoire's prime minister, Seydou Diarra and former rebel-turned-information minister, Guillaume Soro, held talks in Accra with Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor on… Read more »
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 »
