Kenya: Top Community Organizer Empowers Youth

Kenyan health care advocate, activist and academic Dr. Miriam K. Were is in Japan today to receive a major new prize established by the Japanese government, the Hideyo Noguchi… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Weapons Not Delivered, Says Union

The international union federation which has been tracking a Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe  said Tuesday the weapons have not been delivered. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Arms Ship Waits Off Luanda, Say Unionists

The Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe is anchored off Luanda and shows no sign of returning to China, says the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF). Read more »

Zimbabwe: China Recalls Weapons Shipment

The Chinese ship carrying a controversial consignment of weapons for Zimbabwe is being recalled and the arms will no longer be delivered. Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S. Urges Blocking of Arms Shipment

The United States has urged southern African governments to block a shipment of arms destined for Zimbabwe from being transported overland to the landlocked country. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Unions Mobilize to Stop Weapons

The governments of both Mozambique and Tanzania have refused to allow a  Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe to offload its cargo in their ports, a South African… Read more »

Africa: 'Quiet' India Could Offer Lessons to Continent

Several African leaders travel to New Delhi this week for the inaugural meeting of an Africa-India Forum Summit, organized by the African Union and the government of India. Citing… Read more »

Africa: Continent Needs World Trade Deal, Says WTO Chief

The first international trade negotiations which proclaim as one of their objectives reducing discrimination against developing countries in the global trading system are entering… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor Welcomes Bush Assurances on Military

President John Kufuor of Ghana has welcomed an assurance by President George W. Bush that the United States does not intend building new military bases in Africa. Read more »

Tanzania: Working Together to Slash Malaria Deaths

Taking up where he left off yesterday, Kenyan blogger Bankelele reports from the opening of a bed net factory in Arusha – helped by the electricity supply brought in for… Read more »

Tanzania: Blogging the Opening of a Bed Net Factory

Sharing power with a coffee urn, Kenyan blogger Bankelele reports from Arusha on the opening of factory in Arusha which will have a significant effect on the health of many… Read more »

Sudan: Rights Group Criticizes Firms Over Darfur

An anti-genocide group has strongly criticized major international companies sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their silence on the ongoing crisis in the… Read more »

Liberia: Major Road Building Begins in Capital

Construction and repair work on some of Monrovia's main thoroughfares officially began Friday, marking the launch of the first phase of an emergency road repair project… Read more »

Africa: Why China Beats Its Competitors

Low costs give Chinese investors in Africa a competitive advantage over their counterparts from other countries, a Chinese analyst told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Cape… Read more »

South Africa: Chinese to Invest R36.7 Billion In Local Bank

In a huge deal for South Africa and the continent, one of China's major banks is to buy a one-fifth share of Africa's largest bank. Read more »

South Africa: Leaders Meet to Promote Global South Trade

The leaders of three major growing economies of the Global South – South Africa, Brazil and India – are meeting in Pretoria this week to promote trade and cooperation… Read more »

Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts

The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »

Sudan: Can Europe and China 'Save' Darfur?

After all the U.S. government's rhetoric about Darfur's genocide, and all its finger-wagging over the inaction of other nations, it is an instructive irony that the forces… Read more »

South Africa: Country Condemns Burmese Rights Violations, Defense Minster Says

The South African government, facing a storm of criticism for voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning human rights violations in Burma, today… Read more »

Liberia: Shorten Road Between Commitment and Cash, Sirleaf Says

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday called for debt cancellation and increased development assistance for the country. Read more »

South Africa: Country Should Return the Favor

On January 12, on a vote of 9-3 with three abstentions, the UN Security Council rejected a non-punitive resolution seeking to press the Government of Burma to speed up democratic… Read more »

Africa: China-Africa Relations

At the recently concluded Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) in Beijing, 50 African heads of state attended, reaffirming the growing evidence that African countries are… Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Africa: Japan Announces New Aid, 'Marshall Plan' for Africa

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has pledged to increase his country's aid to Africa to $5 billion over the next three years, according to the Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations

The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »