Africa: More Water in South African Taps

The World Summit has ended with a new pledge to reduce the number of people without access to sanitation by half before 2015. Meeting in Johannesburg, the world leaders also… Read more »

Africa: Business Leader Says Governments Must Set Framework for Action on Environment, Development

After earning a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, Mark Moody-Stuart joined the Shell oil company, rising to become the chair of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from… Read more »

Africa: Activist Entrepreneur Says World Should Be Set Alight With Concern About Climate Change

British scientist Jeremy Leggett's life has traversed the field of energy from diverse points: as a scholar at the elite Royal School of Mines at the Imperial College of Science,… Read more »

Africa: Defiant Mugabe Lambasts Britain's Blair; Annan Calls for Action

The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, launched a blistering and bitter tirade against British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking on Monday to the World Summit on Sustainable… Read more »

Africa: Global People's Protest March Ends Trouble-free

The South African authorities, hosting the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), feared the worst and deployed massive police reinforcements just in case. But a day of… Read more »

Africa: Demonstrations For and Against The Summit

There have been demonstrations throughout the first week of the World Summit on Sustainable Development by many different groups. But Saturday is the day for the biggest… Read more »

Africa: Greenpeace, Business Join Forces for Climate Change

A joint initiative announced this week in Johannesburg at the World Summit on Sustainable Development highlights the increasingly diverse range of organizations willing to work… Read more »

Africa: Business Embraces Call for Sustainable Development

Ten years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio, world business leaders were mostly in attendance to say "no" to any proposals for firm action to reduce greenhouse gasses, as well as to… Read more »

Africa: Nigerian Teens Wow Audience and Warn African Leaders

<i><b>Temidayo Israel Abdulai</b>, who is known as Dayo, is just 16, but he has already set up his own non-governmental organisation.</i> Read more »

Africa: Summit Moves Towards Accord - With Gaps

UN officials were upbeat Wednesday about progress towards an agreed plan of implementation in intensive negotiations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in… Read more »

Africa: Getting Markets Right: Food And Sustainable Development - A Roundtable (Part 2)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) which receives its principal funding from 58 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations… Read more »

Africa: Keeping An Eye On War Crimes And Criminals -- Ambassador Prosper

From Rwanda and Sudan in the east to Sierra Leone and Liberia in the west, alleged perpetrators of heinous acts of violence are under scrutiny, both within Africa and from world… Read more »

Africa: 'Mac Attack' Produces Famine Aid

Stung by sharp attacks on its new "McAfrika" sandwich, McDonald's of Norway has agreed to print and distribute information about the famine in Southern Africa. Read more »

Africa: Brinksmanship and Compromise Co-Exist in Closed-Door Summit Negotiations

Hopes at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg for broad agreement on globalization and trade measures have not yet been fulfilled. Read more »

Africa: Drought Demonstrates Need for Sustainable Development

World leaders, environmentalists, corporate CEOs and others who are in Johannesburg, South Africa this week for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) need to look no… Read more »

Africa: Food And Sustainable Development - A Roundtable (Part 1)

Approximately 80 percent of Africa's population is engaged in some form of agriculture - mostly subsistence. But despite this great presence on the land, food security has remained… Read more »

Africa: Sustainable Development Summit Opens With Calls to Action

The World Summit on Sustainable Development has opened in Johannesburg with exhortations from South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and its secretary general, Nitin Desai, to end… Read more »

Africa: Focus on Accountability and Responsibility for Results

Ten years after the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations is hosting another global meeting to discuss strategies for development that are environmentally, socially and… Read more »

Africa: 'Alarm Bells' Should Be Ringing About the Impact of Global Warming in Africa

The changes in the global climate, commonly known as global warming, are having devastating consequences in Africa. A report published this week by the World Wildlife Fund states… Read more »

Africa: Africa Must Not Be "Marginalized in Johannesburg", Says Summit Official

African heads of state must work together at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to make a strong case that the continent's needs are a global concern, says Jan… Read more »

Africa: Call for 'Sense of Urgency' as Johannesburg Summit Approaches

Actual progress on the ground is far slower than hoped and in many cases we are going backwards, Nitin Desai, Secretary-General of the World Summit on Sustainable Development… Read more »

Africa: Tanzania Minister Denies S.African Domination of Nepad

One of the decisions at the recent summit of the African Union (AU) in Durban, South Africa was that the regional implementation commissions of the New Partnership for Africa’s… Read more »

Africa: Gabon Minister Says AU Rules May Need to Be More Flexible

Gabon was one of the most senior member states of the now defunct Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was replaced by the African Union (AU) in early July, after 30 years as… Read more »

Africa: Women Must be Equals in AU, says SA Parliamentary Speaker

One of the historic but little publicised decisions at the recent summit of the African Union in Durban, South Africa was that five of the 10 commissioners - who will make up the… Read more »

Africa: 'Momentum' in Sudan, 'First Step' In Congo/Rwanda Conflict - Kansteiner

The security pact signed Tuesday in Pretoria, South Africa by President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwandan President Paul Kagame is "a terrific… Read more »