December 22, 2017
Africa: Turkey's President Erdogan on Africa - allAfrica's Exclusive Interview
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking in an interview with AllAfrica ahead of a visit to three Muslim-majority African nations, has spoken out strongly against the… Read more »
December 20, 2017
Africa: Top Trump Administration Diplomat Addresses Africa's Toughest Issues
The current U.S. administration's top diplomat on African affairs, Acting Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, recently completed a 10-day trip to Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda… Read more »
December 18, 2017
Africa: Africa's Health Challenge is a Human Rights Issue
Access to health is a human right. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the… Read more »
December 08, 2017
Africa: Magazine Announces List of 100 Most Influential Africans of 2017
New African Magazine has announced its list of Africa's most influential people for 2017. Read more »
December 06, 2017
Africa: Addis Talks Focus on How Chinese Model Can Build Industry
The African Economic Conference has come to a close in the Ethiopian Capital, Addis Ababa, with a call for the continent to improve its infrastructure and labor force. Read more »
December 05, 2017
Africa: To Produce Food and Jobs, Africa Needs Good Governance
"A rule of law is not just that you have rules," Professor Mushtaq Husain Khan of the University of London told a gathering of government officials and representatives of… Read more »
Africa: Governance is Key Factor for African Growth, Conference Hears
"Governance is the reason why some nations and societies do better than others," Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared as he welcomed delegates to the 12th edition… Read more »
November 23, 2017
Africa: Building Small Businesses Creates Jobs for Africa
Job creation is undoubtedly one of the most pressing priorities for African countries. It is no longer feasible to rely on the public sector as the driver of employment -… Read more »
November 22, 2017
Africa: Governments Are Closing Down Space for Civil Society - Jay Naidoo
Currently a political and social activist, Jay Naidoo was a pioneering trade unionist who fought apartheid in South Africa and went on after liberation to serve as a minister in… Read more »
November 20, 2017
Africa: Warning Signs Flash As Governance Progress Slows
Forty of Africa's 55 nations have improved their standards of governance in the past decade, while only 12 have seen a decline. But the rate of improvement has slowed in recent… Read more »
November 17, 2017
Africa: Nurturing Young Entrepreneurs As the Next Generation of Hunger Fighters
Considered the "Nobel Prize of agriculture," the World Food Prize is awarded each year for a specific and exceptionally significant contribution to the production or distribution… Read more »
Africa: Equipping Youth to Renegotiate 'Africa Rising'
Keynote address on the occasion of National Youth Day, Ghana, by H. E. Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SPSG) for West… Read more »
November 14, 2017
Africa: African Media Must Shape the Narrative & Tell Africa's Story Responsibly - Ghana President
Remarks by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the 2017 Bloomberg Africa Business Media Innovators Event Read more »
November 12, 2017
Africa: Act Now to End Pneumonia
The numbers of children who die of pneumonia each year is staggering. In 2015, a child under five died every two minutes – 920,000 in all – and pneumonia is the leading… Read more »
November 14, 2017
Africa: Economic Growth Rides on Wireless Rails
A telecommunications boom is lifting an industry and a continent. Read more »
November 10, 2017
Africa: Commonly Used Drug May Be Key to Stopping Thousands of Mothers Dying
Roughly every six minutes, a woman somewhere in the world bleeds to death in child birth. But a new medical trial shows that there is a way of combating the problem. Read more »
Africa: Toyin Saraki Says Why Drug Trial for Women is Close to Her Heart
Toyin Saraki was speaking at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to raise awareness of the issue of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), which kills around 100,000 women… Read more »
November 06, 2017
Africa: How to Sustain High Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
After significant strides across sub-Saharan Africa over the past quarter-century, there is now a deterioration in the macroeconomic health of many countries, warns Abebe Aemro… Read more »
October 24, 2017
Africa: An Unfortunate Reminder That Dark Skin Is Still 'Not Beautiful'
"You are pretty for a dark-skinned girl" Read more »
November 02, 2017
Africa: What Africa Needs - Roads and Bridges, Cooking Oil and Cement
Roads and railways, bridges and harbours - that's what we need to invest in if we are to grow Africa's economies and provide jobs for the millions of young people who want to… Read more »
November 01, 2017
Africa: The Role of African Media in Regional Integration
Most of the founding leaders of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), today's African Union (AU), are not remembered for their support of free press and democratic rule. Yet,… Read more »
October 31, 2017
Africa: Experts Explore Infrastructure and Cooperation to Improve Lives
African economies require structural transformation to attain sustained growth that trickles down to all its peoples, an official from the United Nations Economic Commission for… Read more »
Africa: Where Journalists Are Killed With Impunity
Somalia has the world's worst record for solving the murders of journalists – and holds it for the third year running, says a new report. Read more »
October 27, 2017
Africa: 'Guptagate' Hits Businesses Across Africa, China, India
The corruption scandal engulfing South Africa's state-owned companies has triggered a ban by one of the world's leading software companies on the payment of commissions on… Read more »
October 24, 2017
Africa: Scaling Up Required to Address Urgent Infrastructure Demand - AFC's Andrew Alli
The African Finance Corporation (AFC) which was established to help bridge Africa's huge infrastructure gap, has made investments totaling more than $4.5 billion in a decade of… Read more »