September 30, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Will Hit Ten Million Children - Report
Climate change will increase the number of malnourished children in Africa by 10 million to 52 million in the next 40 years, and the continent needs new agricultural… Read more »
September 17, 2009
Africa: Obama Administration Committed to Partnering with Africa - Johnnie Carson
A month after accompanying Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to seven African countries, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson, in a major policy presentation… Read more »
August 05, 2009
Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty
Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »
Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty
Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »
August 04, 2009
Africa: Local Skills Boost Development, Says Foundation Head
Lloyd Pierson of the U.S. Africa Development Foundation (USADF) rejects claims that foreign aid has had little impact in Africa. He says aid is most effective when programs are… Read more »
Africa: Mobile Phones Achieve More Than Aid, Says Industry Chief
Michael Joseph, CEO of Safaricom in Kenya, believes the mobile phone has had a greater impact than aid on development in the country. Read more »
Africa: We Can Eliminate Extreme Poverty By 2025
Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty, is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He believes that extreme poverty can be eliminated by 2025… Read more »
Africa: Change Ways of Giving Aid, Says Economist
Paul Collier is the author of "The Bottom Billion," an award-winning book that shines a light on some 50 failing states in the world and the billion people who live in them. He… Read more »
Africa: Best Aid Monitors Are Those At Grassroots
Africa needs to reinvigorate its traditions, revitalize its academic institutions and move away from aid to infrastructural development and intra-African trade, says Njongonkulu… Read more »
Africa: Invest in Small Farmers, Says IFAD Chief
Kanayo F. Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), recently spoke with AllAfrica about the future of international assistance and the role… Read more »
July 16, 2009
Niger: Lawyers Strike, President Clamps Down on Press
Lawyers in Niger went on a one-day strike this week in solidarity with the Constitutional Court, which was dissolved by President Mamadou Tandja - an act the lawyers deemed… Read more »
July 10, 2009
Africa: G8 Nations Pledge U.S. $20 Billion for Agriculture
Nations represented at the G8 Summit of the world's major industrial powers have promised to raise U.S. $20 billion to promote sustainable agricultural development in developing… Read more »
Africa: Obama Explains Food Security Initiative
During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food… Read more »
July 09, 2009
Africa: G8 Leaders Pledge to Meet Promises to Continent
Leaders of the world’s eight biggest industrialized nations have promised to boost development assistance to Africa by U.S. $25 billion a year over 2004 levels by 2010. Read more »
Africa: What the G8 Leaders Say On Africa
Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized countries meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, have devoted about one-third of their declaration to African issues. The verbatim text of… Read more »
July 08, 2009
Africa: G8 Offers Nothing New, Say Campaigners
Robert Fox, the executive director of Oxfam Canada, writes on the G8 meetings in Italy: Read more »
July 02, 2009
Africa: U.S. Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' And Be An 'Effective Partner' - Obama
Barack Obama makes his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president of the United States next week, following a trip to Russia as well as to Italy, where he will participate in a… Read more »
July 01, 2009
Africa: Obama Administration Tackling Wide Range of African Issues - Johnnie Carson
After a slow start on Africa, the Obama administration is picking up the pace. President Barack Obama will make his first stopover in a sub-Saharan African country next week when… Read more »
June 22, 2009
Zimbabwe: Reforms 'Irreversible' Tsvangirai Tells British PM
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe told his British counterpart in London on Monday that his country was engaged in "an irreversible process" of consolidating democratic… Read more »
June 13, 2009
Zimbabwe: Obama Boosts Tsvangirai, Cold-Shoulders Unity Govt
President Barack Obama has welcomed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to the Oval Office in Washington, DC, with a U.S. $73 million aid package for Zimbabwe. But he refused to give… Read more »
June 11, 2009
Africa: Campaigners Attack Italy, France Over Aid
A global anti-poverty advocacy group attacked Italy and France on Thursday for failing to live up to their promises to help Africans improve their education and fight hunger and… Read more »
June 04, 2009
Botswana: Development Bank Lends Nation U.S. $1.5 Billion
In a decision reflecting the consequences of the global economic crisis for Africa, the African Development Bank has granted Botswana the largest-ever assistance package of its… Read more »
May 28, 2009
Zimbabwe: To Give or Not to Give?
Last week, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the South African Broadcasting Corporation that she was "not yet confident" that aid money to Zimbabwe would get… Read more »
May 01, 2009
Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Pleads for Aid
Despite reports of growing divides in Zimbabwe's unity government, Finance Minister Tendai Biti called for increased aid and investment in an optimistic speech in Washington, DC… Read more »
April 02, 2009
Africa: G20 Leaders Promise Billions for Low-Income Nations
The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies, recognizing that the global financial crisis has "a disproportionate impact" on vulnerable people in poor countries, have promised… Read more »
