Africa: 'Elders' Condemn Human Rights Abuses

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined leading international figures in appealing to the global community to fight human rights abuses in countries including Sudan, Zimbabwe and Chad. Read more »

Africa: Our Tradition Upholds Free Speech, Democracy

To suggest that Africans do not care about free speech, electoral fairness or misappropriation of public funds is to misread African traditional culture, write Kwaku Asante-Darko… Read more »

Africa: Baroness Amos of Brondesbury, Valerie Ann Amos

Leaders of over 70 African and European countries have arrived in Lisbon for this weekend's African Union/European Union summit. Refusing to attend, in protest at the inclusion of… Read more »

Africa: UN Chief Calls for Arrests of War Crimes Suspects

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to do more to help arrest leaders indicted on war crimes charges. Six Sudanese and Ugandan… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Heading to Ethiopia

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting of leaders from the Great Lakes Region on Wednesday, December 5 in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, the State… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Threatens Continent

The carbon emissions of developed countries threaten to devastate sub-Saharan Africa in the coming decades, says a major United Nations report issued today. Read more »

Africa: World Cup, African Nations Cup Draw Revealed

Durban hosted on Sunday the draw ceremony for Fifa’s 2010 World Cup, for which a record 204 countries had chosen to participate. Read more »

Africa: 2010 Draw Sets Stage for World Cup Soccer

The stage was set for 30 months of exciting football on Sunday when Africa's nations learned who their teams have to beat to get to the 2010 World Cup finals. Read more »

Africa: Despite New Figures, Aids Funding Doesn't Meet Needs - Stephen Lewis

Excerpt from a speech by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World to the World Health Editors Network, Imperial College, London, UK Friday, November 23, 2007, 11:00 am. Read more »

West Africa: New Film Looks at West Africans in America

Informative, interesting, and humorous are three adjectives that can be used to describe this documentary. Taking place in the concrete jungle of New York, this documentary… Read more »

Africa: Why China Beats Its Competitors

Low costs give Chinese investors in Africa a competitive advantage over their counterparts from other countries, a Chinese analyst told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Cape… Read more »

Africa: Lonrho Plans Comeback

Among international companies operating in Africa, Lonrho has long enjoyed a high profile. Built up by colorful businessman Roland 'Tiny' Rowland, it was an early business… Read more »

Africa: Major Reforms Boosting Growth, Says World Bank

Africa’s prospects for economic growth are improving as a result of reforms in macro-economic management and trade policy, as well as better governance, the World Bank… Read more »

Africa: 'Recognize Our Heroes and Sheroes' - Zambian Ambassador Mbikusita-Lewanika

The Zambian ambassador to the United States, Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, 64, has had a wide-ranging and high-powered career. She studied at California Polytechnic University and… Read more »

Africa: TransAfrica Calls for Just Policies Towards Continent

TransAfrica Forum, the oldest and largest African American human rights advocacy organization for the African world in the United States, commemorates its 30th anniversary with a… Read more »

Africa: Former President of Mozambique Wins Leadership Prize

Joaquim Chissano, the former president of Mozambique, is the first recipient of a new, high-profile prize to reward exemplary leadership by recently-retired African heads of… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »