Africa: Mbeki, Obasanjo, Bouteflika Absent from Nepad Meeting in Senegal

The programme for an important summit on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) in Senegal boasted an impressive line-up of African leaders. And many arrived. But… Read more »

Africa: 'Africa is Ripe for Investment - if Climate is Right'

Hundreds of business executives from Africa, Europe, America and further afield, squeezed into the main conference centre on Monday in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to hear about… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Demands More Aid, Higher Investment for Africa

Development indicators are sending mixed signals about the African continent said a World Bank panel of experts briefing reporters Wednesday on the Bank's new report: African… Read more »

Africa: 'Don't Hold Nepad Hostage Over Zimbabwe' says Minister

"Instead of lamenting on the sidelines, we have decided to be the authors of our own history; for that we have to take care of situations like the one in Zimbabwe, " says Senegal's… Read more »

Africa: Boosting Aid is Vital, Says UN's Annan

Development means enabling people to escape a "vicious" circle of "multiple hardships... poverty, hunger, disease, oppression, conflict, pollution, depletion of natural resources,"… Read more »

Africa: Commonwealth Suspends Zimbabwe for 12 Months

Zimbabwe has been suspended from the Commonwealth for the next 12 months. The announcement came from the Australian prime minister, John Howard, just before 18:00 GMT at… Read more »

Africa: Amoako Cautiously Optimistic About African Union and Regional Integration

The third African Development Forum closes its doors Friday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, after a week of debate on regional integration in Africa, organised by the United… Read more »

Africa: 'Why Do Our Leaders Hate Us So Much?'

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is the senior legal officer for Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, based in London. He is attending the third… Read more »

Africa: Africa Must Accelerate Regional Integration - Amoako

"Africa must truly unite and speed up the pace of regional integration." That is the message of the third African Development Forum (ADF III), organised by the United Nations'… Read more »

Africa: Rock Star Bono's Agenda For Africa

"It's your melody, I'm gonna try and sing it," Bono, the lead singer of the rock band, U2, told a group of advocates for Africa at the headquarters of the charity, Africare, in… Read more »

Africa: 'Ecowas Can Point the Way Forward'

Much is being made of the idea that, come the African Union, there will be greater commitment among member countries to end regional conflicts. But little has been said about… Read more »

Africa: 'The Boundaries Are Holding Us Back'

While many can see the attractions of panAfrican institutions - like an African parliament, or Supreme Court - as part of the African Union, the practical arrangements are… Read more »

Africa: Panel Selects the Continent's 'Best Books'

After days of debate at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra, Ghana, a 17-person jury has selected the best 100 books from Africa written in the 20th century. They considered more than… Read more »

Africa: 'Home-Grown African Democracy Needed to Achieve Peace'

For many, the most troubling task ahead of Africa is to end the seemingly endless cycle of violence and conflict that causes so much suffering in so many parts of the continent.… Read more »

Africa: Peace Prospects in Angola Will Top Bush Agenda In Meeting With African Presidents

With the death of Unita leader Jonas Savimbi, pressure is mounting on Angola's government and the rebel group to resume peace talks and to bring other, non-combatant groups into… Read more »

Africa: Low Commitment, No Cash - is the AU Any Different from the OAU?

African politicians, technocrats, business people, NGOs and leading members of civil society are preparing for a key meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the start of March. They… Read more »

Africa: 'The AU's Parliament Cannot be Based in Tripoli'

Chris Fomunyoh, Senior Associate for Africa at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, DC, spends much of his working life monitoring and… Read more »

Africa: Is Africa Trying to Stand on South Africa's Shoulders?

The end of apartheid, for many in Africa, seemed to promise a better economic future for the continent. For years, Africans north of the Limpopo had watched the apartheid regime… Read more »

Africa: Helping Africa's Banks to Help Africa

The Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations sponsored a conference in January 2002 in New York on the new role of banks in financing development in Africa. The… Read more »

Africa: 'Give Investors Confidence, or the African Union Will Fail'

The African Union is about more than political structures. It should open the way for substantial expenditure on Africa's infrastructure, to facilitate intra-African trade and… Read more »

Africa: 'Skill Shortage, Low Commitment Will Hobble PanAfrican Parliament'

Among the most exciting ideas of the African Union is the creation of a pan-African parliament made up of elected members from all over the continent and with real powers to shape… Read more »

Africa: Why the African Union Just Might Work

Forty years ago, when the Organization of African Unity was established, it passed off with little comment except for the realization that the leaders who established it did not… Read more »

Africa: 'The Leaders are Catching Up with the People'

The launching of the African Union at the OAU's Lusaka Summit of the Heads of State and Government in July last year marks a major transition for Africa, an opportunity to move… Read more »

Africa: New Course For Transafrica

Transafrica is selling its elegant building in Washington, DC. The money will help breathe new life into the organization which, its new president, Bill Fletcher has acknowledged,… Read more »

Africa: New Angola Peace Talks Possible - UN Africa Chief

The MPLA government and Jonas Savimbi's armed movement, Unita appear ready for a new effort at peace talks to end Angola's almost 30-year civil war, United Nations… Read more »