October 20, 2007
Africa: Draw for African Cup of Nations Sparks Soccer Fever
The Confederation of African Football has announced in Accra the draw for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. Read more »
October 18, 2007
Africa: Malaria Campaign Making Progress, Says Report
Four out of every five of the one million people who die of malaria each year are African children under the age of five, according to a new report issued by the United Nations… Read more »
October 11, 2007
Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation
"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »
October 10, 2007
Africa: War Costs Continent U.S. $18 Billion Annually
A new study shows that conflicts in Africa cost the continent over 300 billion U.S. dollars between 1990 and 2005 – an amount equivalent to all the international aid received… Read more »
October 09, 2007
Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election
Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: AllAfrica Opens News Center and Health Office in Monrovia
AllAfrica Global Media today opened an online international news processing center in the capital of Liberia that will also serve as the hub for HealthAfrica. Read more »
October 04, 2007
Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection
Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »
Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building
Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »
October 02, 2007
Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement
Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »
October 01, 2007
Africa: The Rise of African Hip Hop
Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s, was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua
Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »
September 27, 2007
Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica
AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »
September 26, 2007
Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers
Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »
September 25, 2007
Africa: New Governance Index Is 'An African Effort' for Development
The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of… Read more »
Africa: New Survey Picks Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations
Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: Aid Critical To Ensuring Benefits From Trade
While developing and industrialized countries continue to wrestle in the Doha Round of negotiations to reach a new international trade agreement, there is increasing recognition… Read more »
September 21, 2007
Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official
The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »
Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa
In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts
The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »
September 20, 2007
Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations
In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: Why Worry about Africa?
The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »
September 10, 2007
Africa: Violence in Developing Countries
As violence and war grip societies all over the world, social scientists, economists and scholars are rushing to answer the question "why?" Several explanations of the… Read more »
Africa: Resistance to Modernization in Africa
The effectiveness of aid and development policies in Africa is almost always measured by scholars and policymakers. Similarly, support of or resistance to such policies is usually… Read more »
September 07, 2007
Africa: World Bank Hopes to Light Continent
The World Bank hopes to bring affordable and environmentally-friendly lighting products to up to 250 million Africans by the year 2030. Read more »
August 22, 2007
Africa: Flooding Affecting Millions
Flooding has affected millions of Africans throughout the continent in recent days. Read more »