September 19, 2002
Africa: Nepad Embraced but Questioned at House Hearing
Partnership not judgement should be the U.S. response to Nepad - the New Economic Partnership for African Development - South Africa's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aziz… Read more »
September 18, 2002
Chad: Chad Activist Wants Pipeline Put on Hold
The World Bank argues that the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project provides an opportunity for one of the poorest regions in Africa to diversify its economy and increase… Read more »
September 17, 2002
Ghana: Building from the Ground Up - With Local Earth
In Ghana, as in many African countries, concrete - with its dependence on imported inputs - is considered indispensable for building. Yet an excellent, cheap and local alternative… Read more »
Lesotho: Recycling Tin Cans into Houses
Pick up one bit of trash - in this case, an empty soda can - and ask yourself what it might be good for? Read more »
September 14, 2002
Central Africa: World Bank Greenlights Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Despite Warnings
The World Bank has rejected campaigners' demands and concerns expressed by its own internal advisory panel and approved the continuation of the $4bn Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project. Read more »
September 04, 2002
Africa: WSSD in Johannesburg Ends on Uncertain Note
AllAfrica's Akwe Amosu watched on Wednesday in Johannesburg as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the… Read more »
September 03, 2002
Africa: Business Leader Says Governments Must Set Framework for Action on Environment, Development
After earning a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, Mark Moody-Stuart joined the Shell oil company, rising to become the chair of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from… Read more »
September 02, 2002
Kenya: Honey Money: A New Approach To An Old Problem In Kenya
Farouk Jiwa, 28 years old and a fourth generation Kenyan-Asian, went to Canada to study environmental biology. He returned home with a bachelor's degree and looked for a niche in… Read more »
August 30, 2002
Africa: Greenpeace, Business Join Forces for Climate Change
A joint initiative announced this week in Johannesburg at the World Summit on Sustainable Development highlights the increasingly diverse range of organizations willing to work… Read more »
August 29, 2002
Africa: Business Embraces Call for Sustainable Development
Ten years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio, world business leaders were mostly in attendance to say "no" to any proposals for firm action to reduce greenhouse gasses, as well as to… Read more »
August 26, 2002
Senegal: Farming with Windmills
Ahead of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, allAfrica.com's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton travelled to the farming village of Mboro, in Senegal, 150… Read more »
August 10, 2002
Africa: Tanzania Minister Denies S.African Domination of Nepad
One of the decisions at the recent summit of the African Union (AU) in Durban, South Africa was that the regional implementation commissions of the New Partnership for Africas… Read more »
July 30, 2002
Nigeria: U.S. Not Pressuring Nigeria On OPEC, Says Kansteiner
The United States is not pressuring Nigeria to pull out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Walter Kansteiner… Read more »
July 24, 2002
Africa: Global Inequality 'Grotesque', Trends 'Ambiguous' - UNDP Report
The Human Development Report, an annual measurement of global poverty issued by the United Nations Development Programme, once again provides an indicator of Africa's economic… Read more »
July 23, 2002
Africa: Libyas 'Mr Africa on the AU, Nepad and Peer Review
The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, was the official host and chairman of the inaugural summit of the African Union (AU) in Durban earlier this month. But the leader who… Read more »
June 28, 2002
Africa: G-8 Summit 'Profoundly Disappointing,' Says UN Aids Advisor
"There is between promise and reality in this summit a distance which cannot be bridged," explains Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Advisor on Aids, characterizing the… Read more »
Africa: New Key, Same Chords and Notes In G-8 'Africa Plan'
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), "offers something different," G-8 heads of state and government, and representatives of the European Union, have said in an… Read more »
Africa: G-8 leaders Promise Support, But Fail to agree on Targets
The leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations agreed Thursday to provide technical and financial assistance for an African peacekeeping force, pledged to provide… Read more »
June 26, 2002
Africa: African leaders to press for "concrete action" from the G-8.
South African president Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian head of state Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Calgary, Canada this week to lobby the world leaders gathering for the annual Group of… Read more »
Africa: G8 Unlikely to Advance Concrete Africa Plan
A year ago in Genoa, Italy, the leaders of eight nations known as the G-8 set up a task force to develop a concrete plan of action to support "Nepad" - the Africa-generated new… Read more »
June 12, 2002
Africa: Afronaut Shuttleworth Sets Sights on Transforming Africa
Thousands of people lined the streets in Cape Town, South Africa this week, to salute South African businessman and space traveller Mark Shuttleworth. His status as "the first… Read more »
June 11, 2002
Africa: Looking for Results on Nepad and African Union
Hidipo Hamutenya is the Minister of Trade and Industry of Namibia and a leading member of the governing party, SWAPO, the South West Africa People's Organisation. After a long… Read more »
June 10, 2002
Namibia: "We want to develop our industry" - Hamutenya
A delegation from two southern Africa nations, headed by Namibia's Minister for Trade and Industry Hidipo Hamutenya, has been in Washington seeking a modification in U.S. trade… Read more »
June 06, 2002
Africa: Europe's 'Marshall Plan' Relevant to Africa Today, Suggests O'Neill
Calling his recent Africa trip with rock star Bono " the most intense twelve days I've ever experienced," U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill suggested Wednesday that he… Read more »
June 04, 2002
Africa: More Assistance, 'Public Campaign' Against Subsidies Necessary - Wolfensohn
The challenge of Africa is now "front and center," said World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn Tuesday, calling on leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations to give… Read more »