October 08, 2015
Africa: World Trade Talks Offer Historic Opportunity for Africa
As world leaders met at the recent United Nations summit to adopt global goals to end extreme poverty in 15 years, a determination to create broader and more participatory… Read more »
October 07, 2015
Africa: African Civil Society Under Threat, Warns Mary Robinson
The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate… Read more »
October 06, 2015
Africa: 'Decisive Moment for Democracy' - John Kerry
Last May, I shared in an extraordinary moment. I had the privilege, together with many leaders from across Africa, of bearing witness to the first peaceful, democratic transition… Read more »
October 05, 2015
Africa: Africa's Governance Winners, Losers and Surprises
Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future,… Read more »
Africa: Africa Rising? No, Africa Stalled
Africa's premier survey of the quality of governance across the continent shows that it has not improved in the past four years. Read more »
Africa: We Can Defeat Poverty - Melinda Gates
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the efforts to achieve 'Millennium Development Goals' over the last 15 years "the most successful anti-poverty movement in… Read more »
October 03, 2015
Africa: 'Youth Dividend' Will Help Africa Produce Food and Jobs
Ten million young people are entering the African labour market every year. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity to take advantage of the "youth dividend" by… Read more »
September 29, 2015
Africa: Don't Just Make it Sexy, Walk the Talk on Women, Youth in Agriculture
Melissa Britz is reporting from Zambia at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF 2015), and spoke with Sylvia Mwichuli, the convener, about her expectations and hopes for the… Read more »
September 25, 2015
Africa: Swiss Swoop on FIFA's Blatter
Swiss authorities raided the office of FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Friday, interrogated him and then announced they had launched criminal proceedings against him. Read more »
September 24, 2015
Africa: Unleashing the Power of Young People and the Demographic Dividend
The demographic dividend has become a rallying call around the world. Read more »
August 14, 2015
Africa: Power Projects Take Time But Access to Electricity is Spreading – Paul Hinks
Paul Hinks, CEO of Symbion Power, has had a 30-year career in the energy sector, the last five focused on Africa. The independent power producer and engineering contractor builds,… Read more »
August 13, 2015
Africa: Professor Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu: "There is nothing like African justice, justice is justice!"
Sometimes, what one person can do is not just enough, for two can do more. Read more »
August 12, 2015
Africa: Data Has Critical Role in Driving Inclusive Development - Bisa Williams
The Obama administration supports a three-track approach to financing development, according to U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bisa Williams. Interviewed by AllAfrica's… Read more »
July 24, 2015
Africa: Leahy Amendment to the Foreign Assistant Act of 1961
Following is the text of the 'Leahy Law' - Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, a permanent standing law that governs all State Department funded aid. Read more »
July 17, 2015
Africa: Addis Conference Leaders Call for Industrial Growth
Ethiopia's decade-long record of double-digit economic growth was often cited as a model for other developing countries by speakers at the Third International Conference on… Read more »
July 15, 2015
Africa: 'New, Proud Africa' at Addis Confab - ECA's Carlos Lopes
For four days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet". The… Read more »
Africa: Good Governance and Democracy Make for Better Land Use - Expert
On the sidelines of the recent meeting on climate science in Paris, AllAfrica spoke with Ephraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research… Read more »
July 14, 2015
Africa: Addis Talks On Finance Crucial for Development, Says UN Chief
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged delegates attending the Third International Conference on Financing for Development to put aside what divides them and work… Read more »
July 11, 2015
Africa: 'Multi-sided' Partnership Required to Finance Inclusive Development - IMF Chief
A "once in a generation opportunity" – that's how Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), described the chance to assemble the… Read more »
July 09, 2015
Africa: African Scientists Promote Solutions to Mitigate Climate Change
Leading African experts at the scientific conference in Paris which is preparing for the next round of global climate change talks in December have been discussing their work with… Read more »
July 08, 2015
Africa: Looking Beyond Money and Aid for Africa's Development
The Mediterranean has become a graveyard for Africa's youth. Every day we see images of people risking and often losing their lives in attempts to flee what would appear to be a… Read more »
Africa: Will Africa Be Heard At Climate Science Talks?
The global scientific community is meeting at a conference in Paris this week to strengthen the consensus on the science which explains changes to the planetary climate system in… Read more »
June 17, 2015
Africa: Gates Foundation Changes Focus to 'Last Mile' of Delivery
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams and Melissa Britz interviewed Dr Ayo Ajayi, the director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Africa Team, about the foundation's new… Read more »
June 12, 2015
Africa: Interview with Dr Kgosi Letlape - Globlal Forum on Nicotine
Dr Kgosi Letlape is a South African ophthalmologist and health care leader. He is the current president of the African Medical Association, former chairperson of the South African… Read more »
June 11, 2015
Africa: The E-cigarette and its New Challenges
From June 5 – 6, "The Global Forum on Nicotine," an international gathering of researchers, professionals and activists who fight against the harmful effects of tobacco by… Read more »