September 07, 2001
Africa: Africa's 100 Best Books
Approximately 1,700 nominations for 100 of Africa's best books of the 20th century have been received, according to a jury formed last month at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair… Read more »
Africa: Côte d'Ivoire A Xenophobic Nation? No Way, Says Justice Minister
The full title of the United Nations World Conference against Racism includes Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Although the dominant issues have been the… Read more »
Africa: Durban Conference May End Without Agreement or Consensus
South African negotiators and mediators have been working around the clock in a bid to avoid the failure of the UN World Conference against Racism (WCAR) in Durban. Read more »
September 06, 2001
Africa: Arabs and Europeans Wrangle Over Durban Draft Declaration
Negotiators at the United Nations World Conference against Racism battled on Thursday to reach agreement and a compromise package on the Middle East and slavery, the two most… Read more »
September 05, 2001
Africa: How Durbanites Deal With Race
While conference delegates from all over the world debate the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of Zionism and slavery in the South African port city of Durban this week, local… Read more »
Africa: Racism Conference Prospects Look Gloomy in Durban
Prospects for success at the UN World Conference against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa were looking distinctly gloomy on Wednesday, as a rift deepened between European and… Read more »
September 04, 2001
Africa: Slavery Issue Struggles to Get a Hearing in Durban
The 'Zionism equals racism argument and its repercussions may have dominated, and some say hijacked, the first few days of the United Nations World Conference against Racism… Read more »
Africa: US Definitely Not Participating in Durban Conference
A State Department official emphatically denied Tuesday that the United States would continue to participate in the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa.… Read more »
Africa: Delegates Confused by US Stance on Conference
First Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, was scheduled to head his countrys delegation to the Conference against Racism (WCAR) in South Africa. Then the United States… Read more »
September 03, 2001
Africa: The United States and Israel pull out of the Durban Racism Conference
After days of wrangling, angry exchanges and threats that they could withdraw from the Conference Against Racism, the Americans and the Israelis have pulled out their delegations. Read more »
August 31, 2001
Africa: Mbeki Issues Stark and Angry Message on Racism
The host president of the World Conference against Racism, South Africas Thabo Mbeki, opened the conference Friday with a stark portrayal of a divided world and a widening racial… Read more »
Africa: UN Secretary-General Tells Racism Conference: No One is Born a Racist
UN secretary general Kofi Annan has told the WCAR conference in Durban, South Africa that no one is born a racist. Below is the full text of Mr Annan's address. Read more »
August 30, 2001
Africa: Human Rights Commissioner Appeals for Tolerance on the Eve of Racism Conference
The United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has made a plea for tolerance, human dignity and respect on the eve of the opening of the UN World Conference… Read more »
August 15, 2001
Africa: Air Afrique is Dead, Long Live Air Afrique
After more than ten hours of talks in Brazzaville, the eleven heads of state came out of their meeting to announce the verdict to reporters and Air Afrique trade unionists who were… Read more »
August 13, 2001
Africa: African Gold Medals at Edmunton
African athletes collected twenty-four medals, ten of them gold, at the World Athletics Championship in Canada. That's two more than in Seville 1999. Most of the medals in Edmonton… Read more »
August 08, 2001
Africa: GSM Operators Set to Capture Africas Largest Market
With the launch Wednesday by MTN Nigeria Limited of its GSM operations, the scene appears set for the race to capture Africas largest telecommunications market. Two days ago,… Read more »
August 03, 2001
Africa: Whatever Happened to the National Summit on Africa?
Wondering what became of the National Summit on Africa after its successful conference in Washington, D.C. last year, and the drafting of a "national plan of action" for Africa?… Read more »
July 30, 2001
Africa: US Participation in Racism Conference Doubtful
As the Third Preparatory Committee meeting of the World Conference against Racism got underway in Geneva, Monday, to work on a draft Declaration and Program of Action, United… Read more »
July 27, 2001
Africa: Nigeria v.Ghana: All Eyes on the World Cup Prize
Soccer games between Ghana and Nigeria are traditionally intense and Sunday's World Cup qualifier in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, is more intense than most. Read more »
July 18, 2001
Africa: "Digital Divide" Widest In Africa But Focus On "Digital Development," Conference Urged
The African continent - home to one in eight of the world's people - has just one in 50 of the world's fixed line subscribers, one in 60 of the world's mobile cellular subscribers,… Read more »
July 17, 2001
Africa: Finding An African Shape For Technology
Ministers of Communications from across Africa as well as directors of telecommunications companies from around the world are meeting in AFCOM 2001, the 10th telecommunications and… Read more »
July 13, 2001
Africa: More Peacekeepers, Capacity For Lethal Action Needed Africa Committee Told
The number of international troops needed for effective peacekeeping in Africa is much larger than anything being considered now, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on… Read more »
Africa: From OAU to AU - Whither Africa?
"This historic effort will require leadership, courage and willingness to depart from the ways of the past, if it is to do for Africa what the European Union has done for Europe". Read more »
July 11, 2001
Africa: Amara Essy - A New Man for OAU and Africa
Eight gruelling rounds of voting propelled the former foreign minister of Côte dIvoire, Amara Essy, into Africa's top job this week at the OAU summit. Read more »
July 10, 2001
Africa: Libyan Leader Wows Students In Lusaka
A crazy convoy raced through the streets of Lusaka on Tuesday, hunting for The Guide of the Revolution, the name that has become synonymous with the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar… Read more »