Africa: Is Your Cellphone Bad for Your Health?

A recent international conference focused on the use of cellphones to aid health care, made me think about my own health and my own phone. Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Co-Founder Amadou Ba on 'Most Influential' List

AllAfrica co-founder Amadou Mahtar Ba has been selected one of 100 'most influential' Africans by New African magazine. Mr. Ba currently chairs the AllAfrica board and serves as… Read more »

Africa: Donors Pledge U.S. $4.3 Billion to Immunize Children

Major public and private donors have pledged more than U.S.$4.3 billion to immunize at least 250 million of the world's poorest children against life-threatening diseases over the… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones Improve Health Across Continent

Peter Benjamin is the general manager of Cell-Life, a South African non-profit organisation that uses cellphones to assist with healthcare in the HIV/Aids sector. Cell-Life is… Read more »

Africa: Call to Assess Role of Mobile Technology in Health

With more than 70 percent of the world’s five billion cellphone users living in low- and middle-income countries, mobile technology is seen as offering the potential to… Read more »

Africa: 'To Eradicate Hunger, Treat Small Farms as Business'

Feeding the world’s hungry is the challenge of our times, says Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, an energetic advocate for poor people, particularly poor, rural women. Nwanze is president… Read more »

Africa: Exploring Mobile Communications for Healthcare

An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday. Read more »

Africa: Somali Journalists Killed With Impunity

Somalia is the world's second most murderous country for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »

Africa: Widespread Progress, Better Quality of Life

Critics of foreign aid to Africa say that much of the assistance goes to waste. But author and economist Charles Kenny sees things differently. Kenny, who writes a weekly column… Read more »

Africa: West Has Taken Sides in Libyan 'Civil War,' Says Annan

Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan believes the Western coalition fighting Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi has "crossed a line" and is now "fighting on one side… Read more »

Africa: Genetic Discovery Could Benefit Farmers

Scientists have discovered two genes in cattle that may help African farmers improve their livelihoods by preventing premature deaths in their herds from the trypanosome parasite… Read more »

Africa: World Marginalizes Continent in Quest for Democracy, Says Mbeki

Popular uprisings in North Africa have given a boost to democratization across the continent, but the world has marginalized Africa in the handling of recent crises in the… Read more »

Africa: Sustained Growth, With Jobs Vital for Reducing Poverty - IMF's Sayeh

With regard to Africa, the International Monetary Fund's engagement historically has been overshadowed by its Washington neighbor and intergovernmental counterpart, the World Bank,… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones, Radio Promote Rights, Says Amnesty International

Much needs to be done to secure human rights in Africa, but "the tide is turning" and mobile phones and FM radio have arguably done more than most other conventional methods to… Read more »

Africa: Ethiopia to Host 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa

Ethiopia will host the next World Economic Forum's Africa meeting a year from now. At a press conference in Cape Town, Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said he is… Read more »

Africa: 'Tellers and Cashiers' of Africa's Wealth Are Key to Development

When it comes to development policies, alongside all the statistics of hunger and need, and the totals of dollars spent, it must be remembered  that what matters most is that… Read more »

Africa: 'Time Running Out' for Leaders Who Outstay Welcome - Obasanjo

The former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has told African leaders who outstay their people's welcome that "time is running out" for them. Read more »

Africa: Africa Transforms to 'Continent of Hope,' Says Annan

Despite high-profile setbacks, Africa has in the past decade changed from being "the hopeless continent" to "the continent of hope", former United Nations chief Kofi Annan says in… Read more »

Africa: Sustain 'Fragile' Successes in Fight Against Malaria

We have encouraging news out of Africa this week of World Malaria Day, as we take stock of the illnesses and deaths caused by this longtime scourge. Read more »

Africa: Fostering Africa's Emergence as a Global Economic Powerhouse

Following is the keynote address to Chicago Africa Business Group Second Annual Africa Business Symposium at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business I… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Seeks 'Broad-Based, Participatory Growth' - VP

The World Bank, which is hosting its annual meeting in Washington this week in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund, has a new strategy it says can help the continent… Read more »

Africa: Human Speech Originated in the Continent - Study

Human speech originated in central and southern Africa, according to new research on languages. It is then said to have spread around the globe alongside migrating human… Read more »

Africa: 'Early Wins' Will Boost Development, Says World Bank Chief

Afghanistan. Bosnia. Haiti. Liberia. Rwanda. Sierra Leone. Southern Sudan, Timor Leste. Iraq. Although each is different, they have all struggled to move beyond conflict and… Read more »

Africa: Last Frontier for Business Increasingly Abandoned by the U.S. Department of Commerce

Less than two years ago, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made headlines as they landed in Accra, Ghana. The July 2009 visit was historic, coming only months… Read more »

Africa: Obama Will Promote 'Strong Democratic Agenda' - Top U.S. Official

Popular uprisings in north Africa and elsewhere, and elections in many countries, are giving democracy new prominence across Africa. Read more »