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-
A Forum On AIDS In Africa Read more »
March 10, 2000
Africa: African Diasporas In The Old And The New Worlds: Consciousness And Imagination
When: 26-27-28 October 2000 Read more »
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 »
Africa: Six Medals For African Athletes
Kenya leapt to the top of the African Olympics medal table on Friday as African athletes grabbed all the medals in key track events. Read more »
September 28, 2000
Africa: Long-distance Runners Gear Up For Finals
Nouria Merah-Benida of Algeria and Kutre Dulecha of Ethiopia on Thursday qualified for Saturday's finals of the women's 1500m race, setting up an absorbing day of athletics for… Read more »
September 27, 2000
Africa: Two Win In Boxing Quarterfinals
Two boxers - one from Morocco and one from Algeria - carry Africa's hopes into the semi-finals of the Olympic competition. Read more »
Africa: Long-distance Runners Move To Finals
Athletes from Kenya, Ethiopia, Morocco and Algeria dominated the long-distance athletic heats at the Olympics on Wednesday. Read more »
Africa: Africans Win Four Medals, Silver For Alozie
In a storybook tale of triumph over hardship, Nigerian athlete Gloria Alozie has won a silver medal in the women's 100-metre hurdles - three weeks after her fiance, Hyginus Anugo… Read more »
September 26, 2000
Africa: Boxers Move To Quarter-finals
Boxers from Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco have moved through to the quarter-finals of their divisions. Read more »
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