August 04, 2009
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 »
August 03, 2009
Africa: Clinton Visits Seven Countries to Highlight Africa as Policy Priority
Hillary Clinton, making her first journey to Africa as U.S. Secretary of State, begins a seven-nation visit Monday with a stop in Kenya to take part in a forum on trade and… Read more »
July 28, 2009
Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Visit Continent
The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, will begin a seven-nation trip next week during she will visit a range of key countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Read more »
July 24, 2009
Ghana: New Deal to Help Conserve Forests
The Ghanaian government has signed a landmark agreement which will help it stop the export of illegally-cut timber, thus helping to conserve the country's forests. Read more »
July 22, 2009
Sudan: Tribunal Cuts Size of Disputed Abyei Region
An international tribunal has cut the size of the disputed Abyei region of Sudan, rejecting the formal claims of both north and south Sudan and slicing at least 18,000 square… Read more »
July 14, 2009
Mozambique: Conference Seeks to Entice American Companies to Southeast Africa
The American Embassy in Mozambique - in collaboration with the U.S.-Mozambique Chamber of Commerce, Center for Business Promotion, and the Confederation of Business Associations -… Read more »
July 11, 2009
Africa: Brother Barack Admonishes - and Encourages - Africa
Speaking to Africans with the intimacy of a brother, and citing the heritage he shared with them, President Barack Obama of the United States delivered an uncompromising message to… 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 »
Ghana: Obama Visits a Hopeful Nation on a Troubled Continent
Guest columnist Richard Joseph, an Africa expert at the Brookings Institution and Northwestern University in the United States, has been travelling to Ghana for 30 years. Beginning… Read more »
July 03, 2009
Africa: Good Governance Drive Makes Progress
A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town… Read more »
June 24, 2009
Africa: Business Engagement Critical to Global Health, Says Obama Adviser Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith, a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and senior director for relief, stabilization and development at the National Security Council, addressed the… 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 »
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 10, 2009
Somalia: Pirates Expanding Zone of Operations, Say Navies
Somali pirates are extending their activities further out from the Somali coast, beyond the Seychelles in the east and to the Red Sea in the north, warns an international naval… Read more »
Africa: Global Crisis Set to Drive Millions Into Poverty, Predicts Report
The global financial crisis is set to drive millions more people into poverty, to slash radically capital flows to Africa and to deprive sub-Saharan Africa of at least U.S. $50… Read more »
June 09, 2009
Nigeria: Shell Settles Saro-Wiwa Case
After more than a decade of legal battles, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company has agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement in a case in which it was accused of committing human… Read more »
June 05, 2009
Africa: U.S. Abruptly Cancels New Flights
Kenyan government officials have reacted angrily to the abrupt cancellation this week of a new direct flight from Atlanta, Georgia in the United States to Nairobi. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma's Half-Million Jobs is Wishful Thinking
In President Jacob Zuma's first address to the South African Parliament on the state of the nation this week, he promised to create half a million jobs in the next six months. It… 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
Africa: Human Rights Group Links Violations to Food Price Hikes
A leading advocacy group has linked escalating food prices and the sharp rise in living costs across Africa to violations of human rights across the continent in the last year. Read more »
May 26, 2009
Somalia: Naval Forces Report More Pirate Arrests
European Union (EU) naval forces operating off the Somali coast have reported a series of successes in their patrols against pirates, arresting 16 suspects after two attacks in the… Read more »
South Africa: Nation Enters First Recession Since Democracy
Africa's biggest economy, that of South Africa, contracted by a shock six percent in the first quarter of this year, confiming that the country has slid into its first recession in… Read more »
Africa: Diamond Magnate Calls for 'African Way' of Doing Business
A South African businessman whose name is synonymous with the international diamond trade has told an African Union (AU) audience that the global economic crisis was caused by… Read more »
May 22, 2009
Tanzania: Obama, Kikwete Meet in Oval Office on Africa's Conflicts
President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania became the first African head of state to visit the Obama White House Thursday, where he discussed issues including Africa's most pressing… Read more »
May 20, 2009
Madagascar: Ravalomanana Lobbies on YouTube
Madagascar's ousted president, Marc Ravalomanana, may be down but he is not out. Read more »