January 18, 2001
Africa: Kabila Is Dead, Kinshasa Confirms: What Next?
The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have finally announced that President Laurent Désiré Kabila is dead. The long-awaited official declaration was broadcast on… Read more »
January 07, 2001
Africa: Regional Leaders Hail Democratic Transition
African leaders present for the swearing-in of Ghanas new president, John Agyekum Kufuor, have praised Ghana for its transition, for the first time, from one elected president,… Read more »
December 20, 2000
Africa: National Summit On Africa Struggles To Survive
For most of the 10 months that have followed last February's National Summit on Africa, uncertainty about the future has hovered over the body that grew out of the 5-day meeting. Read more »
December 08, 2000
Africa: OPIC Puts Out Call For New Proposals To Manage Africa Infrastructure Fund
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is seeking new management for its $350m Africa Infrastructure Fund. Read more »
December 06, 2000
Africa: World Bank Predicts Strong Growth In Developing World - Africa Trails Behind
A new World Bank report entitled "Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2001", published this week, says prospects for growth in the developing world are better… Read more »
December 01, 2000
Africa: Major Investment House May Lose Key Africa Fund
The US$350m New Africa Infrastructure Fund, backed by the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is up for grabs because of the failure of the firm… Read more »
November 21, 2000
Africa: Leaders Campaign On Small Arms 'Emergency'
Small arms and light weapons are a "growing emergency", former French Prime Minister Michael Rocard warned Monday. Read more »
November 17, 2000
Africa: Youssou Ndour Supports Digital Receivers
World-famous Senegalese Mbalax star Youssou Ndour on Friday promised to work with a Senegalese company, Comptoire Commercial Bara Mboup (CCBM), to market WorldSpace digital… Read more »
November 01, 2000
Africa: African Leaders Must Break The "Wall Of Silence" On AIDS - Kaunda
In Africa there is a "deafening wall of silence on AIDS" that must be "broken," former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda told a session of the Africa Forum 2000 at World Bank… Read more »
Africa: Change of Attitude Needed Say Conference Participants
"How can Africa be a priority and at the same time there are no funds for investment?" a participant stood up and asked panelists discussing "Attracting financing for African… Read more »
Africa: Top Cop for AGOA Lays Down the Law at Conference
Janet L. Labuda, Director, Strategic Trade Operations Division of the U.S. Customs Service is known as "The Enforcer." On a panel discussing the recently passed African Growth and… Read more »
October 31, 2000
Africa: Africa Offers Opportunity, Officials At World Bank/IMF Meeting Say
Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda appeared at a reception welcoming participants to the Africa Forum 2000 that got underway in Washington Monday. Read more »
October 30, 2000
Africa: "We Should Not Think Africa Is Lost" - IMF Chief
Addressing head-on the common perception that Africa is hopelessly mired in poverty and strife, the top official of the International Monetary Fund says that Africa has the… Read more »
Africa: Stock Exchanges Take Steps Towards Pan African Exchange
Securities quoted on African stock markets now have a smoother path to cross-border listing on other stock exchanges on the continent, as stock exchange executives this weekend… Read more »
October 27, 2000
Africa: Imperatives For African Success In Capital Markets Outlined At Conference
Achievement of stable macro-economic environments, provision of incentives for participants, and liberalisation of trade, investment and exchange controls are some of the… Read more »
Africa: Tell Your Story And Attract Investors, African Countries Told
African countries should adopt an aggressive marketing strategy to sell the investment opportunities that abound in continent, a speaker at the conference on capital markets said… Read more »
October 26, 2000
Africa: Need for Stability Re-echoes at Capital Markets Conference
The need for economic and political stability in the whole of Africa as a pre-requisite for continent-wide development re-echoed here Thursday as the Sixth Annual Conference of the… Read more »
Africa: Nigeria Calls for Action On Infrastructural Impediments Facing African Capital Markets
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Thursday called on African countries to take action to address the deficiencies in infrastructure that now impede the growth of the capital… Read more »
October 25, 2000
Africa: That African Markets May be One
One strong and virile African stock market, united by technology, is the ultimate dream. That dream for an integrated African capital market will take the centre-stage this week in… Read more »
October 10, 2000
Africa: Still No U.S. Money For UN Peacekeeping In Africa
As Congress nears recess, all money for peackeeping missions in Africa remain zeroed out of a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001 that provides… Read more »
October 04, 2000
Africa: AIDS In Africa: Handling The Crisis-
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March 10, 2000
Africa: African Diasporas In The Old And The New Worlds: Consciousness And Imagination
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September 30, 2000
Africa: Athletes Scoop Up Seven Medals
Africa again had a clean sweep in a long-distance race Saturday, when her runners took all three medals in the men's 5,000m race. Her athletes won two medals in the women's 10,000m… Read more »
September 29, 2000
Africa: Runners' Teams Join Relay Finals
Three Nigerian relay teams have joined long-distance runners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Algeria and Morocco, and a high jumper from South Africa, in the athletics finals' festival at… Read more »
Africa: Boxing Semi-finalists Drop Out
Africa's remaining boxers in the Olympics were eliminated on Friday in the semi-final round. Read more »