March 19, 2010
Africa: The Lives of African Immigrants Explored in 'Soul Diaspora'
"Soul Diaspora," a new feature film by Nigerian filmmaker Odera Ozoka, recently won the Audience Favorite Narrative Feature Award at the annual Pan African Film Festival in Los… Read more »
March 25, 2010
Africa: High-Level Forum Focuses on Building Capacity for Development
A high-level forum in Tunis this week focused attention on finding innovative solutions to the challenge of building the capacity to develop post-conflict societies. Read more »
March 24, 2010
Africa: Financing Green Technology Adoption
A controversial excerpt leaked from a 1991 World Bank memo signed by the U.S. administration’s current chief economic advisor, Lawrence Summers, outlined the… Read more »
March 23, 2010
Africa: Chissano Calls On Politicians, Scientists to Co-operate Over Water
This week marks World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent’s water resources and calls for our political… Read more »
March 19, 2010
Africa: Continent Emerges as Vast Laboratory for Media Innovation
For too long, news about and for Africans has come predominately from outsiders. International media portrayals of Africans have often been unrecognizable to Africans. Read more »
Africa: Media Initiative Calls for New Partnership for Continent's Development
An address by Amadou Mahtar Ba, Chief Executive Officer of the African Media Initiative and President of AllAfrica.com to the first Pan African Media Conference, 18-19 March 2010,… Read more »
March 18, 2010
Africa: Continent Needs Proactive Action on Climate Change, Expert Says
A three-day climate change conference being held in Accra, Ghana, ends on Thursday. It was organized by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and representatives from more than… Read more »
March 12, 2010
Africa: Civil Society Must Hold Govt Accountable, Says IMF Chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week made his third trip to Africa in a year, visiting Kenya, South Africa and Zambia… Read more »
March 08, 2010
Africa: From Crisis to Opportunity Through Clean Technology
Calestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also… Read more »
March 06, 2010
Africa: Facing Extreme Weather Head On, Ibrahim Forum Urges Action
Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to… Read more »
February 28, 2010
Africa: Carson Cites 'Powerful Success Stories' and Reiterates U.S. Commitment to Political and Economic Progress
Since taking office in May as the lead policymaker on Africa for the U.S. administration, Johnnie Carson has been on the go. As assistant secretary of state for Africa, he has made… Read more »
February 20, 2010
Africa: African Business - A New Opportunity and Blueprint For America
The following is a morning key note speech at the Harvard Business School 12th annual Africa Business Conference Read more »
February 15, 2010
Africa: Sparks Fly in Addis as Top Officials Debate Governance Panel
Sparks flew in Addis Ababa recently as representatives of the 29 member states of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) – the continent's home-grown governance promotion… Read more »
February 12, 2010
Africa: Melinda Gates Lauds Health and Economic Advances for Continent's Poorest
Despite impressive economic growth across Africa in recent years, the distribution of wealth has been uneven, and pernicious poverty persists. Few countries are expected to meet… Read more »
February 11, 2010
Africa: Indigenous Rights Ruling Could Have Big Impact on Land Disputes
In 1973, Kenya forced the Endorois people off their ancestral land in the heart of the Great Rift Valley to create a wildlife reserve, plunging a community of traditional… Read more »
February 09, 2010
Africa: Unveiling the Diversity of Chinese Finance in Africa
China increasingly is playing a crucial role in African economies. Two-way trade between China and Africa exceeded U.S. $106 billion in 2008 and Beijing is the leading trading… Read more »
February 04, 2010
Africa: Continent Ripe for Citizen-Led Development Plan
There have been real improvements in Africa over the past decade. Economic growth has been averaging about five per cent a year, 34 million more children are in school, malarial… Read more »
January 25, 2010
Africa: Africa is Innovating in Financial Services, Food Sciences, Health - Bill Gates
In the second annual letter he has issued to the public to discuss his and his wife's philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft founder Bill Gates… Read more »
Africa: Fighting Aids Needs Innovation, Gates Says
Software entrepreneur Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have focused increasing attention in recent years on philanthropic work, in particular addressing health issues in the… Read more »
Africa: Bill Gates Issues Upbeat Take on African Health, Food Initiatives
Software entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates issued an upbeat assessment Monday on the prospects of overcoming the challenges faced by the world's poorest people –… Read more »
January 22, 2010
Africa: Security and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - Looking to the Future
Following is the presentation to the Commander's Speaker Programme at the US Africa Command, US Military Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany on Tuesday 19th January 2010. Read more »
January 19, 2010
Africa: Donor Countries Get Poor Marks on Education Pledge
The day starts early at the primary school in Aqualaar, a village in Kenya's arid northeastern district of Garissa. By 5 a.m., when the children arrive, their teacher, Ibrahim… Read more »
January 12, 2010
Africa: Bank Offers Lessons on Overcoming Global Crisis
The current economic crisis could push an additional 90 million people around the world into extreme poverty by end of 2010. If it persists, two million children could die in the… Read more »
January 06, 2010
Africa: Bill Sutherland, Pan African Pacifist, 1918-2010
The following announcement was distributed by the Sutherland family: Read more »
January 04, 2010
Africa: U.S. Imposes Tighter Airline Screening for Many Africans
Airline passengers who are citizens of, or fly through, five African nations will undergo more intensive security screening from today before being permitted to board flights to… Read more »