October 14, 2014
West Africa: Zuckerberg & Chan Contributing $25m to CDC to Fight Ebola
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September 29, 2014
Africa: What Africa is Contributing to Ebola Fight - Dlamini-Zuma
During a High Level Meeting on Ebola at the United Nations on September 25, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for a heightened response from the international community. "The… Read more »
September 26, 2014
Africa: U.S. Should Back Real Economic Transformation
The focus on business at the U.S.-Africa Leadership Summit last month was a welcome pointer for how to recalibrate policy and bring tangible economic benefits in trade and… Read more »
August 31, 2014
Africa: How Africa is Losing the Ebola Battle - Amadou Mahtar Ba
A combination of fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures in three of the world's poorest countries, and a slow response by the international public health community… Read more »
August 25, 2014
West Africa: With Better Ebola Response, 'Outbreak Would Be Over' - CDC's Frieden
As a fifth African country on Sunday announced Ebola deaths, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), left for Liberia, Sierra… Read more »
August 22, 2014
Liberia: Give a Glove - Pass It On
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June 05, 2014
Nigeria: Amid Insecurity, Danjuma Foundation Targets 'Whole Person'
With Nigeria's growing insurgency making local and international headlines, a pioneering philanthropic organization is quietly making headway in some of the areas most affected by… Read more »
June 04, 2014
Nigeria: 'We Hope…and Keep Trying' – TY Danjuma Foundation Director
At a time when Africa's most populous nation and largest economy is reeling from intensifying attacks by a shadowy extremist movement, civil society efforts to address Nigeria's… Read more »
April 30, 2014
Africa: Kerry Pledges to Promote Democracy, Rights & Peace
United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Addis Ababa today on the first stop of a visit to east and central Africa. As his trip began, he responded by email to… Read more »
March 31, 2014
Africa: Europe and Africa - Crocodiles With One Stomach
Two heads, one stomach? This is how a former minister described Africa-Europe relations last month, using the West African metaphor of an Adinkra crocodile to say both continents… Read more »
March 20, 2014
Africa: Stolen Funds Dwarf Development Aid - Mbeki
The illicit flow of money out of Africa is at least double what the continent receives from development assistance, according to conservative estimates. Large corporations are… Read more »
January 21, 2014
Africa: Three Myths That Block Progress for the Poor
The introduction to the 2014 Gates annual letter, published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Read more »
Africa: Empowering Women Builds Better Futures
Melinda Gates says everyone wins - and lives are saved - when teenage girls are in school rather than having babies. Excerpted from the 2014 Gates annual letter, published by the… Read more »
Africa: Gates Tackles Prophets of Doom On Poverty, Foreign Aid
The American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has mounted a vigorous attack on prophets of doom who say that poor countries are destined to remain so and that foreign… Read more »
December 11, 2013
Africa: Major Progress in Malaria Fight - Report
Despite an increase in the number of people at risk for malaria, mortality rates have dropped dramatically since 2000 through the use of a handful of tools that global health… Read more »
October 10, 2013
Egypt: U.S. Withholds Military Aid From Egypt
The Obama administration has announced that it will withhold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military and cash assistance to the Egyptian government until there is… Read more »
September 30, 2013
Africa: Feeding Africa Through Agricultural Innovation
After the agriculture heyday of 30 years ago, the sector got scant attention, especially from African presidents whose nations were well endowed with natural resources, like… Read more »
September 12, 2013
Africa: Rockefeller Foundation Challenges Cities to Prosper
Half of the world's people live in cities. By 2050 – only 35 years from now – that number is expected to grow to 75 per cent. Read more »
July 04, 2013
Africa: Obama Visits Africa - an End to Paternalism
President Barack Obama has made a profound and impactful visit to Africa. Read more »
June 06, 2013
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 »
May 31, 2013
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 »
May 07, 2013
Somalia: From Fear to Hope - Getting It Right in Somalia
It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. Read more »
April 05, 2013
Africa: AllAfrica - Celebrating 'We Are the World' - Today
Twenty-eight years ago this month, dozens of popular musicians "checked their egos at the door" of a Los Angeles studio to record 'We Are the World' (WATW) - generating over $75… Read more »
April 02, 2013
Africa: 'Enough' Fellows to Focus On Worst Cases
There is good news out of Africa. Some of the world's fastest growing economies are African. International investment is growing. Read more »
March 15, 2013
South Africa: Two Killed, Thousands Homeless After Stellenbosch Fire
Two people were killed and thousands left homeless when a fire razed homes at the Khayamandi informal settlement in Stellenbosch, a town in the winelands of the Western Cape. Read more »
