June 18, 2012
Africa: Shaky Infrastructure Falls Under Washington Spotlight
Africa needs to be spending U.S.$93 billion each year on infrastructure, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB), more than double the current outlays. The deficit is… Read more »
June 14, 2012
Africa: Low-Cost Air Travel Comes to Africa
African travellers, plagued by the high fares charged by airlines targeting the business market, are a step closer to being able to fly across the continent on a no-frills budget… Read more »
June 11, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: A City's Modern March of Hope
It begins at twilight, just as the roosters begin to crow, before the sky reclaims the overnight rain. At first there are only a few hundred - the earliest risers, the ones hoping… Read more »
May 31, 2012
Africa: U.S. Congressional Inaction Threatens Jobs, Consumers
The United States may jeopardize its relationship with 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa if Congress does not act urgently to extend a provision of a trade law which allows… Read more »
May 23, 2012
Nigeria: Call for Review of South Africa-Nigeria Visa Regime
What does it symbolise that American and British visitors to South Africa do not need a visa, but Nigerians and many other Africans do? Read more »
May 15, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Efforts Under Way to Rehabilitate Agriculture Sector
The United Nations Development Programme's Africa Human Development Report 2012 released today said the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become sub-Saharan… Read more »
May 11, 2012
Africa: Keeping Pace With Change
While Africa is home to some of the world's fastest growing economies, if it aims to sustain this growth and improve the quality of life of its citizens, the continent cannot… Read more »
Africa: Inequalities Undermine Impressive Growth
Twelve years ago, the influential Economist magazine described Africa as "the hopeless continent". Last year the same publication ran the headline: "Africa rising: the hopeful… Read more »
May 04, 2012
Kenya: Court Ruling on Generic Drugs Sets Precedent for the Region
Thousands of people living with HIV and Aids in East Africa were given new hope on 25 April 2012, when a high court judge in Nairobi ruled that Kenya’s anti-counterfeit law… Read more »
April 26, 2012
Africa: Fighting Malaria - 'Best Investment in Health in Decades'
The pay-off from investment in anti-malaria programmes has been nothing short of spectacular, and every effort must be made to maintain these efforts, says the director of the… Read more »
April 24, 2012
Africa: U.S. in Drive to Boost Africa's Energy Supply
As I fly over Africa at night - a regular occurrence in my job - the continent is an indelible image of sporadic pinpricks of light that identify the largest cities and towns, with… Read more »
April 11, 2012
Africa: U.S. Congress Bill Calls On Obama to Engage African Markets
Brother, can you spare a dime? Read more »
April 05, 2012
Africa: Empowering Through Employment
In three years, Samasource has paid more than U.S.$1.5 million in real wages to over 2,000 trained workers in places where most people survive on less than $3 a day. The social… Read more »
March 30, 2012
Africa: Top African Banker Tells Europe to Get Behind Okonjo-Iweala
I am blessed to be approaching my four score birth year. Looking back over the transformation of Africa during my lifetime, I recognize my fortune to have been a participant… Read more »
April 03, 2012
Mali: West African Leaders Clamp Down With Sanctions
West African leaders have imposed a wide range of stringent sanctions on the military junta in Mali. Read more »
March 30, 2012
Africa: Prestigious Publication Backs Okonjo-Iweala for World Bank
The reputable London-based weekly, The Economist, has backed the candidacy of Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as president of the World Bank and seriously questioned the suitability… Read more »
Africa: International Radio Astronomy Project to Benefit Africa
Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio astronomy project could be a powerful driver for socio-economic development, South Africa's Minister for Science and… Read more »
March 29, 2012
South Africa: Govt Confident of Hosting Massive Telescope
Africa is ready to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), according to South African Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor. Read more »
March 26, 2012
Kenya: Cultivating Traditional Crops to Fight Malnutrition
If growing up in an agricultural community were the key to health, the children of Kiamwangi would be thriving. But Jane Hunyu, who farms a quarter-acre plot here, says the… Read more »
March 20, 2012
Africa: U.S. Focuses on Energy, Infrastructure on Continent
"American influence and dominance in Africa has been significantly eroded by China, Brazil, India and others," Mwangi S. Kimenyi, director of the Africa Growth Initiative at The… Read more »
March 13, 2012
Africa: Aiming for a Predictable Water Supply
As the Sixth World Water Forum is being held in Marseille, France, this week, AllAfrica looks at the lack of predictable water supplies and challenges to building infrastructure to… Read more »
March 14, 2012
Africa: Feeding the Planet by Leveling the Plowing Field for Women
In 1900, there were a mere 1.6 billion people on our planet. Today, there are seven billion and by 2050 we will be nine billion. One would expect that with such rapid population… Read more »
March 08, 2012
South Africa: Thousands of Workers Protest in Cape Town
Trade unions and workers today marched through the streets of Cape Town, as part of a national campaign by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), demanding the… Read more »
March 06, 2012
Nigeria: Call to Appoint Finance Minister to Head World Bank
President Barack Obama should nominate Nigerian finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as next president of the World Bank, writes Harold E. Doley, Jr., a former United States… Read more »
February 29, 2012
Liberia: The Plantation Blues
Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »