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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: A Kerry Presidency Can Restore Rapport With Africa, Rangel Says

Although little discussed in the current election campaign, the next president of the United States will have to confront a number of critical issues in Africa. In an ongoing… Read more »

Africa: New Study Shows Aid for Short Term Projects Has Positive Effects on Economic Growth

The Center for Global Development has released a new study that examines the growth effects of short-impact aid - such as infrastructure building, agricultural or industry support,… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Must `Walk the Walk' in Africa

Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Chair in Strategic Studies and serves as an Associate in the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Crocker's… Read more »

Africa: Conservation Should Be Major U.S.-Africa Policy Issue, Report Says

Nicholas P. Lapham, Vice President for Policy at Conservation International, joined other experts in making recommendations for U.S.-Africa policy in a Center for Strategic and… Read more »

Africa: `Spend More Money and Put More People in Africa'

Paying more attention to Africa will help both Africa and the United States, according to Robert Rotberg, a foreign policy scholar who has written extensively about the continent.… Read more »

Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis

James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »

Africa: Agoa Key To An Expanding Relationship with Africa, Says Top U.S. Trade Aide

Florizelle Liser has spent twenty years developing and implementing policy at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). She currently serves as assistant U.S.… Read more »

Africa: Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton Stress Africa's Importance at Sullivan Dinner

African countries need peace and security to prosper, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Advisor said speaking to the Leon H. Sullivan Summit Awards Dinner on… Read more »

Africa: Africans View Globalization As Positive But Unfair, According to Eight-Nation Survey

Two out of three Africans surveyed in a poll released last week by GlobeScan and the World Bank believe that globalization has a positive effect on their lives. However, most… Read more »