April 30, 2008
Africa: Fight Food Prices by Freeing Up Trade
Barriers to free trade are exacerbating the current global food crisis, making the conclusion of the Doha round of global trade talks being conducted by the World Trade… Read more »
April 21, 2008
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 »
April 18, 2008
South Africa: Workers Vow to Stop Zimbabwe Weapons
South African union members vowed on Friday to stop the delivery to Zimbabwe of a consignment of weapons from China which reportedly includes three million rounds of small arms… Read more »
April 10, 2008
Africa: Hopes Rise for Global Trade Deal
The current round of international trade talks, the "Doha Round," which many Africans hope will open new markets for them in developed countries, enter a crucial few… Read more »
April 09, 2008
Kenya: Franchising Health Instead of French Fries
Scott Hillstrom is founder, chairman and CEO of the HealthStore Foundation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. The foundation aims to improve access to… Read more »
Africa: Corporate Coalitions Band Together to Fight Aids
One of the aims of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) – an organization representing about 200 American companies investing in Africa – is to help its members… Read more »
Africa: New Effort to Promote Health Insurance
In Africa, most people pay for health care out of their own pockets, and few can afford it. But new efforts are underway that enable the cost burden to be shared. Read more »
Africa: Business Promotes Health Partnerships
Although the health challenges facing Africa are enormous, unique efforts are underway to help diminish the human toll that illnesses exact and to ease the related economic cost. Read more »
Africa: Taking From the Poor, Giving to the Rich
Sub-Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden but only three percent of the world's health workers, according to the World Health Organization. Dorothy Ngoma,… Read more »
April 06, 2008
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 »
March 18, 2008
Africa: UK Envoy Calls for Urgent Citizen Advocacy on Trade
Paul Boateng, the British cabinet minister who left that post to become his country's high commissioner to South Africa, has been visiting the United States with the declared aim… Read more »
March 11, 2008
Africa: Continent's Top Young Leaders Named
Twenty-three Africans are among 245 executives, scientists, journalists, sports stars and other public figures named by the World Economic Forum as "Young Global Leaders"… Read more »
March 10, 2008
Africa: Americans Shouldn't Give Up on Africa
The news Americans hear about Africa these days is mostly bad – the periodic outbreak of violence, the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, runaway inflation in… Read more »
March 07, 2008
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 »
March 06, 2008
Southern Africa: European Trade Deal Challenges Unity
Trade talks between the European Union and southern African countries have opened up serious differences between Europe and South Africa, and between South Africa and her… Read more »
March 03, 2008
Africa: France Promotes New Relationship With Continent
After a brief stop in Chad last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France went on to visit a country not traditionally part of the French area of influence in Africa – South… Read more »
February 20, 2008
Liberia: Prosecution Witness Describes RUF Use of Civilian Forced Labor
The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »
February 09, 2008
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 »
February 08, 2008
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 »
February 04, 2008
Africa: Europe Trade Pacts Offer New Challenges, Opportunities
New trade agreements with Europe have raised legitimate fears for the future of African industry but offer new potential for two-way trade, buttressed by aid and "aid for… Read more »
January 31, 2008
South Africa: Central Bank Bows to Global Pressure
Bowing to the "uncertain and volatile" world economic climate, South Africa's central bank today resisted pressure to increase interest rates to bring down inflation. Read more »
January 25, 2008
South Africa: Govt Declares Electricity Emergency
At the end of a week of unprecedented power cuts across southern Africa, South Africa's Cabinet has declared a "national electricity emergency" and announced… Read more »
January 21, 2008
Nigeria: Govt Plans to Chase Tobacco Firms Out
On the heels of massive law suits filed against tobacco companies British American Tobacco and Philip Morris, the Nigerian government has announced its intention to ban smoking in… Read more »
January 09, 2008
South Africa: Sprinklers Salute Summer Food
Alfred Ngcizela, a member of Hlumani ("growing bigger") Garden in Khayelitsha, stands between beds of spinach, sprinklers whooshing around him in peaceful salute to… Read more »
South Africa: Cape Town Goes Organic
The market for organic vegetables in Cape Town has increased massively over the last few years, locals in the industry agree. Read more »