Africa: Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations

Southern Africa is the continent's best-governed and Central Africa its worst-governed region, according to a new ranking of Africa's quality of governance published today. Read more »

Africa: Four Presidents Address Regional Integration at U.S. Business Summit

As part of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit being hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa this week, four African heads of state, participated in a Presidential Roundtable on… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: End Resource War, Urge Congolese Activists

One hundred years ago, a global outrage surrounding the death of an estimated ten million Congolese resulted in the end the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium over the Congo.… Read more »

Africa: Continent's Leaders Hold Talks With Obama at UN

African issues will be in the spotlight Tuesday when President Barack Obama hosts a luncheon for some two dozen African heads of state and government at the United Nations on the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Peace Campaigners Turn up Heat on Apple, Intel Over Conflict Minerals

The Enough Project, a leading Washington, DC-based advocacy group focusing on genocide and crimes against humanity, is stepping up efforts to end conflict in the Democratic… Read more »

Africa: Obama Administration Committed to Partnering with Africa - Johnnie Carson

A month after accompanying Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to seven African countries, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson, in a major policy presentation… Read more »

Africa: Rwanda Named World's Top Business Reformer

Rwanda was named today as the world's top business reformer, measured by the changes the country has made over the past year to make doing business there easier. And Mauritius… Read more »

Gabon: Presidential Election - Time for Change or More of the Same?

Gabon goes to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday, nearly three months after the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba at the age of 73. Bongo was Africa's longest-ruling… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Clinton Set on Ending Sexual Violence

The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, travelled to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Tuesday, determined to press "very hard" for an end to… Read more »

Angola: Stand Against Corruption, Clinton Tells Legislators

The visiting United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called on Angola's national assembly to demand from the country's government "accountability and transparency,… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Congo-Brazzaville: Sassou-Nguesso Re-Elected With 78 Percent of Vote

Denis Sassou-Nguesso was yesterday declared the winner of last Sunday's presidential elections in Congo-Brazzaville. Read more »

Rwanda: On Independence Day, Not Quite Free?

As Rwanda celebrates its independence on Wednesday, it stands as one of those African countries which appears on the face of it to be working well, despite pursuing a homegrown… Read more »

Gabon: Delay in Presidential Elections?

Government and opposition parties in Gabon are discussing delaying presidential elections to enable the updating of voters' rolls, according to the Kinshasa newspaper, Le… Read more »

Central African Republic: International Court Charges DRC's Bemba

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has committed for trial the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, on charges of war crimes… Read more »

Congo-Brazzaville: Sassou-Nguesso Heads for Re-Election

Congo Brazzaville's voters head for the polls on July 12 to elect a new president. Read more »

Gabon: President Bongo Confirmed Dead

Gabon's President Omar Bongo, 73, has died in a hospital in Spain. Read more »

Gabon: New Confusion Over Bongo

Gabon's government has denied reports that President Omar Bongo of Gabon has died in hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Read more »

Sudan: Darfuri Woman Refugees 'Live in Fear of Rape'

Darfuri women who have fled as refugees to Chad live in fear of being raped and as a result ostracized by their families, says a new study. Read more »

Cameroon/Cote d'Ivoire: Soccer Stars Make Africa Proud in European Final

Two Africans generated enormous support among soccer fans around the continent for the winning team in Wednesday's European Champions League final played in Rome. Read more »

Chad: World Court Accepts Senegal's Pledge on Habré

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has turned down a request that it order Senegal to keep the former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, within its jurisdiction… Read more »

Gabon: Bongo Illness Reports Spark Succession Debate

The people of Gabon have been wondering for some days now about the state of health of President Omar Bongo Ondimba, reports Infos Plus Gabon of Libreville. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: New Civilian Catastrophe Looms in East

A new offensive by the Congolese army, backed by United Nations peacekeepers, against Rwandan rebels ensconced in the lush forests of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)… Read more »

Africa: Three Presidents Probed Over French Properties

A French judge has cleared the way for probes into how three African heads of state came to possess multiple bank accounts, properties and cars in France, newspapers in Francophone… Read more »