June 12, 2002
Africa: 13 African Nations To be 'Fast Tracked' For Education Aid
The World Bank announced Wednesday that it is asking 23 developing nations to become part of an "Education For All Fast Track" that aims to guarantee quality primary education for… Read more »
June 11, 2002
Africa: Education Ministers Say Government Can't Do it Alone
Although many African nations are making progress toward achieving the United Nations "millennium development goal" of universal primary education by 2015, governments must… Read more »
June 12, 2002
Africa: Afronaut Shuttleworth Sets Sights on Transforming Africa
Thousands of people lined the streets in Cape Town, South Africa this week, to salute South African businessman and space traveller Mark Shuttleworth. His status as "the first… Read more »
June 11, 2002
Africa: Looking for Results on Nepad and African Union
Hidipo Hamutenya is the Minister of Trade and Industry of Namibia and a leading member of the governing party, SWAPO, the South West Africa People's Organisation. After a long… Read more »
June 06, 2002
Africa: Europe's 'Marshall Plan' Relevant to Africa Today, Suggests O'Neill
Calling his recent Africa trip with rock star Bono " the most intense twelve days I've ever experienced," U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill suggested Wednesday that he… Read more »
June 04, 2002
Africa: More Assistance, 'Public Campaign' Against Subsidies Necessary - Wolfensohn
The challenge of Africa is now "front and center," said World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn Tuesday, calling on leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations to give… Read more »
May 30, 2002
Africa: NGO Leaders Seek 'Space' For Development
"We need a little space to build a critical mass of entrepreneurs," says Lawrencia Adams, Coordinator of the Accra-based Organisation Pan Africaine Pour Le Developpement Durable.… Read more »
May 27, 2002
Africa: Mozambique Leads the World - in Clearing Land Mines
Two decades of war left Mozambique littered with land mines. One study by the Canadian De-mining Institute estimates that there are approximately two million land mines, covering… Read more »
May 25, 2002
Africa: Ghana's Kufuor Defends His Government's Record on Transparency, the Economy
In the second and final part of an interview with allAfrica.com, Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor talks about his hopes for Ghana and the performance of his government after… Read more »
May 21, 2002
Africa: US Treasury Secretary in Africa to See For Himself
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill's 10-day visit to Africa is unprecedented. It is being seen as an opportunity for African officials to punch home their view that the… Read more »
Africa: The AGOA Bargain is Unequal - Oxfam
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill begins a ten-day tour of African countries to see their economies at close quarters, the spotlight is on trade relations between the rich… Read more »
May 20, 2002
Africa: Expanding African Trade is the Key to the Future - Rosa Whitaker
"Rigged rules and double standards lock poor people out of the benefits of trade, closing the door to an escape route from poverty," Oxfam charged in a recently released report,… Read more »
May 16, 2002
Africa: Rock Star Bono, US Treasury Secretary Plan Africa Tour
They are an unlikely duo, to say the least: Irish rock star Bono, of U2, and Bush Administration Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill. But the two men are pairing up and between May… Read more »
May 09, 2002
Africa: Education is the Silver Bullet, says Unicef Head
The first ever UN summit devoted to children is under way in New York, this week. The meeting was originally scheduled for September 2001 but the events of that month forced a… Read more »
April 30, 2002
Africa: Afropop Benefit Draws Stars, Fans
African songs of freedom rang out strongly in New York Monday night, accompanied by the enthusiastic stamping, clapping and ululating of an appreciative crowd at the Bottom Line… Read more »
April 29, 2002
Africa: AllAfrica Wins Webby Nomination (2002)
AllAfrica's web site, allAfrica.com, is one of five nominees for the best news site by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, known as the Webbys. The 6th annual… Read more »
April 24, 2002
Africa: 'Africa Does Matter to the US' Say Bush Officials
"September 11 did change our world and did change our approach to Africa," Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Walter Kansteiner told a symposium sponsored by the… Read more »
Africa: Seek Credit Rating, Powell Urges African Ministers
Not having a widely used credit rating system stymies investment in Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told two dozen African central bankers and Finance Ministers,… Read more »
April 23, 2002
Africa: Still Stuck at the Bottom of the Pile: What Must Africa Do to Develop?
Africa's numbers remain awful but that's come to be almost routine at the annual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Read more »
April 22, 2002
Africa: World Bank Claims "Consensus on Education For All"
"Education is the best anti-poverty strategy," said Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer joining World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn, Norway Development Minister Hilde… Read more »
April 19, 2002
Africa: Common Ancestor, One African "Eve" for All World's People Portrayed
In a television documentary scheduled for airing on the Discovery Channel this Sunday, humankind is said to share a common genetic link that can be traced to one woman who lived in… Read more »
Africa: African solutions to African problems - Senegals Wade pulls off Diplomatic Coup
The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, shot a diplomatic hole-in-one on Thursday, with the agreement between the two Malagasy leaders who he had invited to Dakar to make peace. Read more »
April 16, 2002
Africa: Could US Africa Policy be Derailed by the Middle East Crisis?
Across Africa, the Middle East crisis is provoking passionate debate bordering sometimes on angry condemnation. Both Muslim and "anti-colonial" sentiment, already stirred by the… Read more »
Africa: Senegalese President Confident of Nepad's Success Ahead of June G8 Summit
Picture President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, 74, nonchalantly wandering into the efficiently-run Cybercentre, at the plush hotel and conference centre in the capital, Dakar, where… Read more »
April 15, 2002
Africa: Absence of key African leaders at Nepad summit no big deal, says Senegal
Unofficial rumblings of discontent among senior government officials in Senegal, and outright irritation, annoyance and even anger by some Senegalese people, have greeted the… Read more »
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