Africa: Can Innovation Solve Africa's Problems?

allAfrica's Mantsadi Sepheka talks to the Africa Innovation Foundation and winners of the 2013 Innovation Prize to find the link between Africa's development challenges and… Read more »

Africa: Fund Invests to Break 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Mother, Child Death

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) will invest U.S.$787 million (£2.7 billion) to tackle under-nutrition – which underlies over three million… Read more »

Africa: Pulling Nigeria and Africa Towards Prosperity and Power - Moghalu

In his latest book, Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu declines to echo the breathless prose of… Read more »

Africa: Hope for Ending 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Malnutrition, Poverty

Gently laying three-month-old Benjamin on a board to measure his length, Elizabeth Mumo, 28, is grateful for the weekend clinics in a makeshift health facility, run by a retired… Read more »

Africa: 'Magnificent Strides' Against Malnutrition

The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), will co-host a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger… Read more »

Africa: Lancet Highlights Importance of Maternal, Child Nutrition

A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008… Read more »

Africa: Bold Goals, Measurement Needed for Progress Against Poverty

With the expiration of the initiative still more than a year away, there is planning underway to move beyond the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at… Read more »

Africa: Literacy and Losing Vowels

How will mobile devices enhance literacy in Africa? The answer, according to Donald Clark - outspoken  Scottish entrepreneur and blogger - who takes us a step back. Read more »

Africa: Learning Works Better When It's Done Together

Making a video is a learning experience, and it doesn't have to end up online. If you leave a group of children alone with a device that's connected to the Internet, they can teach… Read more »

Africa: Key African Ally Nigeria Should Get U.S. Support

During Secretary of State John F. Kerry's first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa last week, he had the opportunity to publicly bolster a key U.S. ally. Instead, he singled out… Read more »

Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman'

Toyin Ojora-Saraki, founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal, newborn and child health and empowerment organization, has dedicated more than 20 years to… Read more »

Africa: Let's Make the Next 50 Years Even Better for Children in Africa

This week, African leaders will gather in Ethiopia to celebrate 50 years since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity - now known simply as the African Union. It's an… Read more »

Africa: Investing in Africa's Women

Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Graca Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her… Read more »

Africa: France-Afrique: Breaking The Ties

The French army's recent intervention in Mali has sparked fresh debate about the relationship between France and Africa. Some detractors passionately advocate for the abandonment… Read more »

Africa: Seizing Opportunities, Delivering Products As African Markets Expand - P&G

Last year, the United States announced a new strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa that emphasizes increased trade and investment, including intra-African trade. Officials acknowledge… Read more »

Africa: Obama Expected in Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa Next Month

President Barrack Obama will visit Dakar next month,according to reports in the Senegalese press. Read more »

Africa: Governance Gets New Emphasis At Economic Forum

The call for transparency and good governance across Africa is not a new one, but it assumed a new prominence at this month's World Economic Forum (WEA) regional meeting for… Read more »

Africa: Mastectomy Disclosure by Angelina Jolie May Help Reduce Stigma in Africa

In disclosing in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie also called attention to the many women in Africa and… Read more »

Africa: Boosting Youth Employment Through Digital Jobs

The announcement by the Rockefeller Foundation of an initiative to create jobs in Africa focusing on the digital field has been lauded as an important strategy by Jack Leslie,… Read more »

Africa: Thomas-Greenfield Likely Choice for Assistant Secretary

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tapped Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a widely respected career Foreign Service officer, to the department's top Africa post,  sources have… Read more »

Africa: Kenyatta Advocates 'All-Inclusive Society' at Economic Forum

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who describes himself as a simple man driven to help his country prosper, faced challenging questions at a World Economic Forum session here on… Read more »

Africa: DR Congo Riskiest Country For New Mothers

The riskiest country in the world to be a new mother is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's according to Save the Children's 2013 State of the World's Mothers report. Read more »

Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Resumes Boeing 787 Dreamliner Service

After more than three months of suspension, Ethiopian Airlines resumed its Boeing 787 Dreamliner service over the weekend with a successful flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. Read more »

Africa: Babies Dying Gets Me Where It Hurts

"Eight thousand newborn babies will die during this conference." Read more »

Africa: Malaria in Liberia - 'The Struggle Continues'

I woke up feeling the headache and chills, and made a couple of trips to the bathroom to ease the nausea. The experience was all too familiar; I was having another bout of malaria,… Read more »