June 25, 2005
Africa: Summit Had Good Attendance and Deals Got Done, Says Corporate Council Leader
Addresses by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Constance Newman and Paul Applegarth from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation highlighted… Read more »
June 24, 2005
Africa: World Bank Chief Sees Africa as Continent of Hope
Saying that Africa must be sold on the merits of its potential and not just on the basis of its needs, the World Bank's new president told an international group of business… Read more »
June 22, 2005
Africa: Business Summit Aimed at Boosting U.S. Investment in Africa, Says CCA President
The fifth U.S. Africa Business Summit, sponsored by the Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa, opened in Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday night with a gala awards dinner.… Read more »
June 21, 2005
Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results
Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »
June 12, 2005
Africa: G8 Debt Agreement to Benefit 23 African Countries; Separate Deal for Nigeria Mooted
The agreement on 100% debt relief for developing countries announced by finance ministers from the eight largest industrial nations on Saturday initially benefits 14 nations in… Read more »
June 08, 2005
Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora
In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
May 10, 2005
Africa: Powell Defends Obasanjo on Taylor and Calls for Greater Support for Africa
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be asked "to be unfaithful to the commitment he made" to provide asylum to former… Read more »
May 04, 2005
Africa: Life After the Presidency
"What does an African head of state do when he leaves office?" said Professor Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa during an African… Read more »
April 21, 2005
Africa: Jendayi Frazer Tapped for State Department Africa Post
The top Africa policymaker in the U.S. Department of State, Constance Berry Newman, has submitted her resignation, according to several government sources who asked not to be… Read more »
April 20, 2005
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Tapped by Time
Canada's former United Nations ambassador, Stephen Lewis, who serves as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, has been named by Time magazine in… Read more »
April 06, 2005
Africa: African Authors to Speak at New York Literature Festival
The first-ever New York Festival of International Literature features writers from more than 45 countries, including African authors Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,… Read more »
March 12, 2005
Africa: 'Hard-Hitting' Report Needs Grass Roots Support To Turn Bold Recommendations Into Policy, Amoako Says
Declaring the living conditions for most Africans to be "intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind," a commission of imminent international figures established by… Read more »
February 09, 2005
Africa: African Solutions To African Problems: A Slogan Whose Time Has Passed
Last month, African Heads of State converged on Abuja, Nigeria, for a summit meeting of the African Union (AU), the organization that covers all of the continent's 53 member… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise
"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »
December 03, 2004
Africa: Morocco Added to Eligibility List for Millennium Challenge Account
Morocco is the only country added to the eligibility list for the 2005 Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), U.S. officials said in November. Cape Verde is not eligible for 2005… Read more »
December 01, 2004
Africa: World Aids Day 2004 Addresses Plight of Women and Girls
If HIV/Aids is to be defeated, the world needs to work together to make a difference in the lives of those who have been infected and affected, especially women, Lapologang Lekoa,… Read more »
November 10, 2004
Africa: New Book on Aids Pandemic Paints a Troubling Picture
The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global Aids Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. Greg Behrman. Free Press, 2004. 368 pp. $17.50… Read more »
Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption
Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »
November 03, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations
The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »
November 01, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Opens in Tokyo
Public-private partnerships between Asia and Africa topped the agenda Monday during the opening of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) in Tokyo, Japan, as… Read more »
October 12, 2004
Africa: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »
August 25, 2004
Africa: African Capacity Building is Essential to Undermining Terrorist Financial Networks Say U.S. Reps
In line with the ongoing investigations into the financial networks of terror, Juan Zarate, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and William Fox Director of the Financial… Read more »
August 23, 2004
Africa: Remembrance: J. Wayne Fredericks
J. Wayne Fredericks, who, in both official and unofficial roles, was a pioneering advocate of a closer and better-informed relationship between the United States and Africa, died… Read more »
August 13, 2004
Africa: Attention for Africa Not Easy In an Election Year - Donald Payne
The following exchange with Rep. Donald M. Payne (Democrat - New Jersey) is one of an ongoing series of conversations about Africa policy in the next U.S. presidential… Read more »