Africa: Fake Drugs are 'Everyone's Problem'

When intellectual property rights protections fail, the results can be deadly. During a meningitis epidemic in Niger in 1995, more than 50,000 people were inoculated with fake… Read more »

Africa: New Hope for Rolling Back Malaria

Malaria kills an African child every 30 seconds and is one of the continent's leading causes of death - the leading cause in many countries. Africa accounts for as many as 90%… Read more »

Africa: Kofi Annan to Chair Judging of Leadership Prize

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is to head the judging panel which will select the winner of the new Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. Read more »

Africa: Tutu Reflects - We Live in a Moral Universe; Zimbabwe Tests Our Resolve, Our Judgment

Nobel Peace Prizewinner, cleric and champion of justice for the world's poor: retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu still moves at a blistering pace, leaving aides and admirers… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Announces News Center and Health Office in Monrovia

AllAfrica today announced plans to open an online international news processing center in Monrovia. The office will also be used by the AllAfrica Foundation as a hub for… Read more »

Africa: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. officially unveils the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection this month.  The collection features… Read more »

Africa: WTO Head Sees Progress on Trade Issues, But Tough Bargaining Lies Ahead

The next six months will be crucial for the efforts of Africa and the rest of the developing world to secure easier access to markets for their products in the industrialized… Read more »

Africa: Blood Diamonds

Greg Campbell's Blood Diamonds is a detailed and long needed look at blood/conflict diamonds. The book inspired the film Blood Diamond, and research from the book was used in the… Read more »

Africa: Bush Includes Continent's Needs in Annual Address

In his 2007 State of the Union address, United States President George W. Bush urged Congress to increase funding for Aids relief, malaria, and development in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Global Experts Encourage Women as Peacekeepers

Experts in peace-building have called on African women to become involved with peacekeeping from the start of negotiations to end conflicts, and not to allow themselves to be… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Official Sees 'Credible and Serious Dialogue' As Key to Peace in Somalia

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer, who has been leading the Bush administration's peace efforts in Somalia and Sudan, discussed the situation in… Read more »

Africa: First Ladies Call for New HIV/Aids Initiatives

Three African first ladies, Azeb Mesfin of Ethiopia, Jeanette Kagame of Rwanda, and Maureen Mwanawasa of Zambia, have called for new and further-reaching approaches to combating… Read more »

Africa: Businesses Urged to Help Employees With HIV/Aids

Panelists at an Africa-wide conference on the critical role of women and girls on the continent have urged businesses to support them in addressing the HIV/Aids crisis. Read more »

Africa: Africa Plays On

Africa Plays On is a compilation of music and artists from all over Africa and the world, primarily those African countries who have played in the World Cup. The CD features… Read more »

Africa: Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference (TED) to Convene in East Africa

In the shadow of one of the world's most iconic mountains, several hundred people will gather in Tanzania this June in a global version of the annual gathering in Monterey,… Read more »

Africa: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School

The books talks of the social conflicts between African and African American students at an American high school. The authors of the book conducted studies and workshops with… Read more »

Africa: White House Pushing Anti-Malaria Campaign

Africans are dying from another killer disease that rivals the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS; and Americans can play a major role in helping to prevent it, says the White House. Read more »

Africa: Textile Producers Get a Boost from Trade Bill Adopted in Pre-Adjournment Congressional Flurry

Legislation that has been credited with spurring expanded American trade with Africa received a late-hour extension from the United States Congress just before both houses… Read more »

Africa: Help Children by Empowering Women

One in every 16 women living in sub-Saharan Africa will die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, as against one in 4,000 in industrialized countries. Read more »

Africa: 'Blood Diamond' Entertains, Educates

In the early days of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe's 1980 coup in Liberia, I was entering a hotel in Monrovia with my five-year-old son when soldiers lounging in the lobby started… Read more »

Africa: Senator Brownback and Representative Lee Say Continent Deserves More Focus

Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Democratic Representative Barbara Lee from California were honored by the Africa Society of Washington, D.C. on Thursday for their… Read more »

Africa: Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Sex Practices in Africa

This book is a compilation of articles on the experiences of lesbian women in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The stories were born out of the… Read more »

Africa: Adjustment Problems of African Students at Public Universities in America

The basis and rationale for this book is great. It is mean to be a tool for African students wishing to study in the United States. The book begins with steps to take after one… Read more »

Africa: Free Media a Barometer of Democracy in Africa

Sometime last year, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s aides began testing the third-term debate, lobbying for an amendment to the constitution to do away with term… Read more »

Africa: Time for a New Story to Be Told

Average economic growth of more than five percent, record flows of foreign direct investment and stock markets that routinely outperform London, New York and Tokyo. This is Africa… Read more »