Africa: Experiencing the Climate Change Youth Caravan

This week a group of African media practitioners - young reporters, veteran correspondents and journalists-in-training -  got together in the shadow of the COP17 climate… Read more »

Africa: 'How Good is Money When You are Leaving a Devastated World for Your Children?'

allAfrica.com asked young, African environmental activists what they would say to the world leaders negotiating on our behalf inside the Durban International Convention Centre. Read more »

Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune

"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »

Africa: Marketing the Fight Against Climate Change

Environmental activists have climbed to new heights at COP17. Known for courting arrest by attempting to commandeer oil rigs and whaling ships to highlight their pro-environment… Read more »

Africa: For Africans, Climate Change is a Question of Adaptation

High-level international role-players have arrived for climate talks (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, and are debating the key issues as they try to hammer out an accord. But what… Read more »

Africa: Climate Crisis Threatens Health of Young Africans

What's bad for the climate is bad for health. Read more »

Africa: Women Impacted by Climate Change - But Not as Victims

"I remember when we didn't have rainfall and my mother had to pay my school fees, so when there was no yield from crops she had to sell her fridge in order for me to go to school",… Read more »

Africa: 2011 - Jurist Who Backed Democracy in Niger Named 'African of the Year'

Salifou Fatimata Bazeye, a 60-year-old distinguished jurist from Niger, has been chosen as "African of the Year" by Media Trust Limited, publisher of the Daily Trust, Weekly Trust,… Read more »

Africa: Audacious Aim to End Poverty - Conversation with Lloyd Pierson

The United States African Development Foundation (ADF) tackles tough problems. An independent public agency established by an act of Congress, it operates among the most… Read more »

Africa: Putting the Fairness Back in Trade?

"Trade isn't always fair," argues Rob Cameron, CEO of Fairtrade International. "It's the imbalance in trade that makes it necessary for fair trade to exist." Read more »

Africa: Zimbabwean Rapper Kapital K Needs Your Vote to Perform at Lil Wayne's Show

Upcoming Zimbabwean hip-hop star Kapital K is likely to perform an opening set on Lil Wayne's concert on December 7 at the Bellville Velodrome in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more »

Africa: In Zimbabwe, Change Like a River in Aids Fight

When social worker Charakupa Ngwerume was named by the village chief to serve as a counselor on a customary court, his first priority was to campaign for the nomination of female… Read more »

Africa: Western Union Offering Support for Diaspora Entrepreneurs

Western Union and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) this week are launching an initiative to provide support for U.S.-based entrepreneurs from the… Read more »

Africa: Stop Natural Resource Plunder - A Conversation with Paul Collier

Oxford economist Paul Collier's latest book, The Plundered Planet (Oxford University Press), is a call to action. It deplores the extraction of Africa's natural resources to… Read more »

Africa: Celebrating Democracy and the Youth Revolution in Tunis

The Palais des Sports d'el Menzah was the venue Friday night for a form of exercise rarely practiced there: dancing. Read more »

Africa: Mo Ibrahim Promotes Next Generation While Honoring Good Leaders

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation marked its fifth anniversary last month and released its annual report on governance in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Tunisian PM, African Media Leaders Tie Free Press to Development

Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi says that a year after the uprising that launched "the Arab spring", the country is on the path to achieve the aims of the social… Read more »

Africa: The New Global Crossroads

Following is the text of a lecture to the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management. Read more »

Africa: 'Environmental Challenges' Threaten Growth, UN Report Says

Over the next four decades Africa's progress in human development could outpace any other region of the world, but environmental challenges could threaten the continent's… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Senate Body Examines China's Impact and Influence

The Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee will convene a hearing Tuesday focused on China's role in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Legislative Warrior with a Passion for Peace - Howard Wolpe

I knew of Howard Wolpe long before I had the honor of having a friendship with him. Read more »

Africa: Remembering Howard Wolpe, the Tireless Peacemaker

I have known Howard Wolpe for over 30 years. When he took over as Chairman of the Africa Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1981, I had… Read more »

Africa: Tributes Pour in for Africa Champion Former U.S. Rep. Howard Wolpe

Howard Wolpe, 71, a former chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Africa Subcommittee and senior adviser for Africa to two Democratic presidents, died on Tuesday at his home… Read more »

Africa: U.S.-Africa Business Leader Wants Summit to Spur Ties

The Corporate Council on Africa, whose members include the largest U.S. firms doing business in Africa - along with many smaller companies - … Read more »

Africa: Malaria Vaccine Trials Offer New Hope to Children

A malaria vaccine undergoing trials across Africa show that it reduced the risk of clinical malaria by half in children aged five to 17 months - a result that health experts say… Read more »