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 »
July 09, 2001
Africa: Arms And Africa On UN Agenda This Week
According to The East African newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya, small arms trafficking along the Uganda, Sudan and Kenya borders has grown so much since 1986 that the cost of… Read more »
Africa: OAU Summit Hears Warnings of 'Oblivion' if Conflicts Continue
The 37th annual summit of the Organisation of African Unity, which is likely to be the last, has opened in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, with delegates focused on the creation of a… Read more »
July 06, 2001
Africa: "Global Apartheid" Says Africa Action Director
This past spring a new organization - Africa Action - was formed through the merger of three of the oldest Africa advocacy groups in the United States. The oldest of these three… Read more »
June 28, 2001
Africa: President Wade Says Joint Plan for African Development Under Study
Following a visit to New York, where he attended the United Nation's Special Session on AIDS, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade came to Washington today for talks with President… Read more »
June 26, 2001
Africa: Interview With Chester A. Crocker (Part 2): Southern Africa Two Decades Later
Few heads of the State Department's Africa Bureau have been as identified with a policy as has former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker, the architect of the… Read more »
June 25, 2001
Africa: What Should Africa Expect From UN AIDS Summit?
It has taken some African leaders years to see the light. Others appear still to be in denial about AIDS, but an impressive number is expected at the United Nations headquarters… Read more »
June 22, 2001
Africa: Interview With Chester A. Crocker (Part 1): Sudan, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia
Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester A. Crocker, who served during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, held the post for eight years - longer… Read more »
June 20, 2001
Africa: No Safety Across Borders In Many Nations
Africa's refugee numbers are grim enough. 460,000 have fled Sudan, placing it at the top of Africa's refugee list. Angola's war has driven more than 400,000 across borders.… Read more »
Africa: Ending AIDS Scourge Top Priority Says Gates' Foundation Senior Health Advisor
In our lifetime no disease has caused the havoc that the AIDS epidemic has, in the view of Dr. Wiliam H. Foege, a senior advisor on global health affairs to the Bill and Melinda… Read more »
June 19, 2001
Africa: Eclipse Diary 3
AllAfrica has been following preparations for scientific observation of the June 21, 2001 solar eclipse by a team of astrophysicists from Williams College in the United States.… Read more »
Africa: AllAfrica Interview: Preparing for the Eclipse
Tourists, journalists and scientists have been arriving in southern Africa to view the total solar eclipse on June 21, 2001. Dr. Jay Pasachoff, an expert on the solar corona, is… Read more »
June 15, 2001
Africa: Warming World Challenge for Africa
There is now "observational evidence" that the earth is getting warmer than it has been at any other time during the last 10,000 years, according to Dr. Robert Watson, World Bank… Read more »
June 13, 2001
Africa: Bush Administration Believed Willing To Urge Ratification Of Child Soldier Protocol
The just released report by the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers is generating considerable interest, says Jo Becker, Chairperson of the Coalition and… Read more »
Africa: Over 100,000 Children Bear Arms in Africa
Three hundred thousand children, some as young as seven and eight, are fighting in conflicts in forty-one countries around the world and more than a third of them are in Africa. Read more »
June 01, 2001
Africa: Africa Prominent At Global Health Awards
Saying that it "doesnt take a scientist to know that our health, like our freedom, is ultimately indivisible," Melinda French Gates awarded the first annual Gates Award for Global… Read more »
May 29, 2001
Africa: AllAfrica Exclusive: Powell Promises US Support but Says Africa Must Help Itself
The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, ended a four-nation African tour on Monday, which took him from Mali to South Africa and onto Kenya, with a last stop in Uganda. … Read more »
May 28, 2001
Africa: Powell Ends Tour With Pledge to Keep Africa High on US Agenda
Americas top diplomat, Colin Powell, wrapping up a four-nation Africa tour in Uganda on Monday, has promised to keep the continent on the US foreign policy agenda. Read more »
May 25, 2001
Africa: Africa Union Announced As U.S. Official Denounces Its Foremost Promoter
As Organization of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim announced Friday that the OAU will be replaced by a new "African Union" in a year, a senior U.S. official… Read more »
May 24, 2001
Africa: Powell's Peacekeeping Promise
In the White House earlier this month, U.S. President George Bush told Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo that the United States would continue to help train Nigerian troops as… Read more »
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