June 27, 2005
Zambia: Zambia Is a Peaceful Destination for Tourism and Investment - Mwanawasa
Levy Mwanawasa, who took part in last week's U.S.-Africa Business Summit, became president of Zambia in January 2002 after a hotly contested election the previous month in which he… Read more »
March 31, 2005
Madagascar: Madagascar Made 'Extraordinary' Effort To Become First Millennium Account Recipient - Applegarth
The Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors announced mid-March that Madagascar will receive the first funding from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid… Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation
In his State of the Nation address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »
September 17, 2004
Liberia: Ambassador Sees Agriculture as Key to Liberia's Recovery
Nearly a year after the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) was inaugurated last October, the country's interim leader Gyude Bryant is scheduled to arrive in the… Read more »
July 07, 2004
Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis
James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »
July 02, 2004
Africa: Agoa Key To An Expanding Relationship with Africa, Says Top U.S. Trade Aide
Florizelle Liser has spent twenty years developing and implementing policy at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). She currently serves as assistant U.S.… Read more »
October 02, 2003
Mali: 'Japan Should Have a Security Council Seat,' Says President Toure
More than twenty African leaders gathered this week in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, for the third conference in ten years on development cooperation and partnership between Japan… Read more »
September 08, 2003
Africa: Africans Head for WTO With Low Expectations
African trade ministers and officials are approaching the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial talks that begin in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, with low expectations. Read more »
June 25, 2003
Mali: Development is Being Destroyed By Subsidies, Mali President Tells Congressional Committee
U.S. and European subsidies and tariffs "support injustice," Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure told the House International Relations Subcommitteee on Africa, Tuesday,… Read more »
June 04, 2003
Ethiopia: Drought and Hunger Bite Deeper as Appeal Falls Short
The UN World Food Programme is warning that despite an early response by the international community to the consequences of Ethiopia's drought, 12.5 million Ethiopians continue to… Read more »
May 19, 2003
Africa: 'Capacity building' Key To End of Drought-Famine Cycle, says Expert
The past year's food emergency in Southern Africa's continues to have a devastating impact although the Food and Agriculture Organisation's forecast of a 'generally favourable'… Read more »
May 09, 2003
Zimbabwe: Why Africa Only Has Four Months to Rescue Zimbabwe
Now that President Thabo Mbeki and his colleagues, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawi's Bakili Muluzi, are at last engaged in a serious effort to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis,… Read more »
April 01, 2003
Africa: Agriculture Needs Higher Priority, Says USAID Administrator
"There is no constituency for agriculture," an apparently exasperated Andrew Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, told a Congressional… Read more »
February 27, 2003
Southern Africa: UN's Envoy in Washington to Convey Enormity of Food/Aids Crisis
At the end of January, the UN Secretary General's special envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, James Morris, completed a tour of four countries in the region and said… Read more »
January 23, 2003
Africa: Climate Change Spells Disaster for African Agriculture - Unless We Adapt
In the next 50 years, the world's population is expected to increase from six billion to nine billion. At the same time the planet they must survive on is under pressure; the… Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
October 15, 2002
Africa: Famine in Africa is "Overwhelming the System"
The spread of famine in Africa now threatens well over 30 million people and is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to address the problem, the World Food Program warned… Read more »
October 08, 2002
Africa: Bono Recognized for Work Against Poverty, Aids
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States, which presents the annual Grammy Awards for music, will present its 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year… Read more »
October 07, 2002
Malawi: Seeking Long Term Solutions for Food Crisis
The sudden appearance of lush bright green spots surrounding the small mountain village of Thundu in the Dedza district of central Malawi is startling after two hours of driving… Read more »
October 02, 2002
Southern Africa: International Push Can Prevent Full-Scale Famine, Says CARE Head
"When I see the kind of spirit and energy with which people are working in so many of the villages we visited and how much they are able to make of so little, it gives me hope."… Read more »
October 01, 2002
Southern Africa: Food Crisis - Slow Suffering In the Village
Skeletal children dying of starvation and the carcasses of livestock aren't yet found in the bone dry villages of Malawi's interior, but the dots connecting weather, disease and… Read more »
September 28, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Cocoa Price Hits 16-Year High Amid Ivorian Unrest
The price of cocoa, Cote d'Ivoire's primary export, jumped to its highest level in 16 years this week in a clear indication that the current crisis in the world's leading producer… Read more »
September 02, 2002
Kenya: Honey Money: A New Approach To An Old Problem In Kenya
Farouk Jiwa, 28 years old and a fourth generation Kenyan-Asian, went to Canada to study environmental biology. He returned home with a bachelor's degree and looked for a niche in… Read more »
August 28, 2002
Africa: Getting Markets Right: Food And Sustainable Development - A Roundtable (Part 2)
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) which receives its principal funding from 58 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations… Read more »
August 27, 2002
Africa: 'Mac Attack' Produces Famine Aid
Stung by sharp attacks on its new "McAfrika" sandwich, McDonald's of Norway has agreed to print and distribute information about the famine in Southern Africa. Read more »
