September 11, 2001
Africa: Flexibility, Innovative Institutions Key To Ending Poverty - World Development Report
A new World Bank report identifies what it calls "four main lessons...to ensure effective [economic] institutions" in Africa and throughout the world of developing nations: designs… Read more »
September 10, 2001
Africa: Jennifer Lawson, Executive Producer, On The 'Africa' Series
This week, public television's New York Channel 13/WNET began airing an eight-part series called "Africa" produced in partnership with National Geographic Television. The series -… Read more »
September 08, 2001
Africa: Durban Racism Conference Finally Ends
It took a blocking vote, and an additional twenty-four hours, to abruptly end further discussions and wrap up the proceedings at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), Racial… Read more »
Africa: Racism Conference finally ends in Durban after last minute hitch
The UN World Conference against Racism (WCAR) has finally ended at 18h15 local time (16h15 GMT) a day after it was due to finish and hours after the extended period for further… Read more »
Africa: Durban Racism Conference Enters Unscheduled Ninth Day
The third World Conference Against Racism (WCAR)ran into extra overtime on Saturday, a day after the meeting was scheduled to end in the South African port city of Durban. This… Read more »
September 07, 2001
Africa: Overnight Negotiations Continue at Racism Conference hours After Planned Closure
Hours after the United Nations World Conference against Racism (WCAR) was due to end in Durban, negotiations were continuing late Friday, and looked set once again to take… Read more »
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 »
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