January 12, 2003
Africa: Mauritius Court Declares Anti-Agoa, Anti-War Protest Legal
Mauritian Supreme Court Justice Eddy Balancy declared on Friday that the police had acted outside the law in banning a demonstration against the free trade policies of the United… Read more »
January 10, 2003
Africa: 33 Governments, 400 delegates Expected at AGOA Meeting in Mauritius
Hundreds of government officials from 33 African countries are meeting next week in Port-Louis, Mauritius to discuss trade and investment opportunities in Africa and prospects for… Read more »
Africa: Some Progress, Some Uncertainties Ahead of Agoa Forum in Mauritius
The United States will be pointing to positive numbers showing rising bilateral trade with African countries at next week's "Agoa" forum in Mauritius, arguing that Agoa - the trade… Read more »
Africa: 180 Exhibitors Registered for AGOA Conference in Mauritius
Textile, agricultural produce, IT and freight forwarding companies are among the major exhibitors at the Second AGOA Forum that opens in Mauritius on January 13, 2003. The number… Read more »
December 23, 2002
Africa: Head of African Union on the Ivory Coast Crisis
For the first time, last week, the United Nations Security Council expressed its grave concern over the volatile situation in Cote d'Ivoire, warning of "its serious consequences… Read more »
December 20, 2002
Africa: White House Prepares Multi-Nation Presidential Tour to Africa
President George Bush will make a six-day trip to Africa in January, his first visit to the continent as President of the United States. Read more »
December 03, 2002
Africa: Education for all a priority for Africa, say ministers
"Education is the key to life!" Smiling schoolgirls from Zanaki Secondary, in Tanzanias commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, said it all. Welcoming African education ministers, and… Read more »
December 01, 2002
Africa: HIV/Aids Specialist Says Reducing the Spread of Infection is Achievable
As World Aids Day again called attention to the continuing spread of HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere, AllAfrica talked to Dr. Helene Gayle, director of the U.S. Centers for… Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
November 15, 2002
Africa: U.S. Trade Rep for Africa Leaving Post
Rosa M. Whitaker, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Africa, will be quitting her post next month. Read more »
November 12, 2002
Africa: Fight For Global Justice is TransAfrica's Immense Task, Says Danny Glover
While the Free South Africa Movement, and the fight to change U.S. policy toward Haiti gave TransAfrica Forum much of its visibility in the 1990s, the African-American organization… Read more »
October 29, 2002
Africa: 'Blood Diamonds' Talks Underway
As the World Diamond Council (WDC) began meeting in London, Monday, to finalize their plans for stamping out the flow of 'conflict' or 'blood' diamonds mined in African war zones,… Read more »
October 24, 2002
Africa: Africa At 'Crossroads', Says New Africare Head
For 32 years, Africare, founded and led by former Peace Corps official C. Payne Lucas, has sought to assist Africans and African nations in the arenas of development, governance,… Read more »
October 15, 2002
Africa: Famine in Africa is "Overwhelming the System"
The spread of famine in Africa now threatens well over 30 million people and is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to address the problem, the World Food Program warned… Read more »
October 12, 2002
Africa: Toxic Wastes Could Impact Africa for Generations
The UN estimates that 110,000 tons of obsolete toxic pesticides and associated wastes have accumulated in African countries in the last 4O years. These pesticides, sometimes in… Read more »
October 11, 2002
Africa: Industry Moves to Help Clean Up Toxic Wastes in Africa
Obsolete pesticide stockpiles have been identified in almost every African country. At least 50,000 tons of the outdated chemicals, as well as tens of thousands of tons of… Read more »
October 10, 2002
Africa: Common Market Leader Seeks Level Global Field
Erastus J. O. Mwencha, secretary general of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) has been in Washington for the fall meetings of the World Bank and… Read more »
October 08, 2002
Africa: Bono Recognized for Work Against Poverty, Aids
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States, which presents the annual Grammy Awards for music, will present its 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year… Read more »
September 30, 2002
Africa: African Voices in the Streets of Washington
A South African unionist protesting the privatization of electricity, a Cameroonian development expert protesting an oil pipeline and a Tanzanian activist protesting plans to allow… Read more »
Africa: Africa Needs New Debt Approach Say Finance Ministers
Saturday's decision by a key policy-making panel of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), directing the institution to come up with a new approach for tackling the debt crisis… Read more »
September 29, 2002
Africa: IMF Urges 'Bankruptcy' Plan For Debtor Nations
The International Monetary Fund's policy-making panel has directed the institution to develop a "concrete proposal" that will allow heavily indebted countries to, in effect,… Read more »
September 27, 2002
Africa: "Implementation" is Key, But Uncertain
The official face being worn by African ministers, World Bank and IMF officials is optimistic as they once again say things are going to be different in Africa. Read more »
September 24, 2002
Africa: World Bank/IMF to Meet Amid Protests From Many Quarters.
The World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings that begin in Washington this week, will again take place behind heavy security fences and police lines designed to protect delegates from… Read more »
September 19, 2002
Africa: Nepad Embraced but Questioned at House Hearing
Partnership not judgement should be the U.S. response to Nepad - the New Economic Partnership for African Development - South Africa's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aziz… Read more »
September 04, 2002
Africa: WSSD in Johannesburg Ends on Uncertain Note
AllAfrica's Akwe Amosu watched on Wednesday in Johannesburg as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the… Read more »
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