South Africa: Bittersweet Travels - A Journalist Comes to Terms with a Troubled Continent

Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey, by Lynne Duke. Doubleday, ©2003. $24.00 hardcover. Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Grave Humanitarian Crisis Worsening In Eastern Congo, Where 3.5m Have Already Perished

Violence continues in eastern Congo, where rebel groups have clashed with United Nations peacekeepers and government forces, in violation of the peace accords signed in 2003, Rep.… Read more »

Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building

In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »

Sudan: 'Call the Atrocities In Darfur By Their Rightful Name'

President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell were urged Wednesday by a coalition of members of the U.S. Congress and civil society to declare the humanitarian crisis… Read more »

Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Suspends Normal Operations To Call Attention to Darfur

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum suspended regular activities for the first time in its history Thursday for a half hour program on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan that… Read more »

Sudan: Unicef Takes Out Loans to Bring Aid to Darfur: Less Than 'One Piece of Plastic Per Family'

Julianna Lindsey is a program officer for the United Nations Children's Fund's Humanitarian Response Unit. She traveled through Sudan for five weeks coordinating Unicef support for… Read more »

Sudan: `Genocide Unfolding': Physicians Group Faults Sudan Government, Lack of World Response

As part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights, John Heffernan spent two weeks on the Sudan-Chad border, visiting refugees from western Sudan's Darfur region. About half of the… Read more »

Sudan: The World Is Obligated to Prevent Genocide in Darfur

Jerry Fowler is Staff Director of the Committee on Conscience, a division of the U.S. Holocaust Museum created to ensure that genocide never happens again. He visited refugee… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Rwandan Involvement and Rebel Advance Makes Stepped Up UN Action Essential, Says Congo Ambassador

"Very credible eyewitnesses who have seen boats crossing the lake from Rwanda" going towards Kalehe and Biraa and Bukavu say they contained Rwandan soldiers, according to the… Read more »

Africa: Rome Concert Launches a Movement, Says Quincy Jones

If the days of concerts for a cause having an impact are over, producer Quincy Jones hasn't noticed. "You know, it's not really a concert," he told a reporter for Metro… Read more »

South Africa: Haiti President Aristide's Central African Republic Arrival Still a Puzzle

As Peter DeShazo, Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs puts it, the government of the Central African Republic simply called up the aircraft… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki On Landmark Visit To DRC, Assessing Peace Process And Looking For Trade

South African President Thabo Mbeki is making the first state visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by a South African leader. Mbeki flew into Kinshasa on Tuesday,… Read more »

Rwanda: School-Going Girls Learn 'We Too Can Be Engineers,' Rwandan Teenager Tells Educators

In sub-Saharan Africa, 24 million girls did not attend school in 2002, according to the annual State of the World's Children report released last month by the United Nations'… Read more »

Angola: A Death For a Song and the Triumph of Impunity

Angolan writer and human rights activist Rafael Marques wrote this account of the late-November killing of a member of the public by presidential guards. Read more »

Africa: 'Front Load' Africa's Development, Say UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinators

Foreign assistance has helped Ethiopia get through the droughts and food emergencies that have regularly battered the east African nation over the last five years, says Samuel… Read more »

Uganda: 'No More Problem' - Museveni Insists Relations with DR Congo are Good

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was last week in Washington, D.C., on a private working visit. He met travel industry companies to encourage them to bring tourists to his… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Progress in Congo Being Made, Insists UN Official

While acknowledging that there are still "wars going on all over the place" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Director for the Africa 1 Division in the United… Read more »

Chad: President Deby Turns On Oil Pipeline - and a Path to Riches

Landlocked, poor and underdeveloped, Chad joined Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other leading global oil-producing countries Friday, when President Idriss Deby formally inaugurated the… Read more »

Africa: 'I Hope To Be Of Service' Says Mazimhaka

Patrick Mazimhaka, outgoing presidential advisor to the Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, was elected vice-chairman of the African Union Commission at the recent AU summit in Maputo,… Read more »

Central Africa: Rwanda's Kagame Promises Fair Election, Cautious on Prospects for Peace in Great Lakes Region

Rwandans go to the polls next month in the first presidential elections since the genocide in 1994, when between 800,000 and one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed by Hutu… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Condemn Takeover in Sao Tome and Principe and Support Menezes

African presidents across the continent have spoken out strongly today in support of President Fradique de Menezes, following an army takeover in his island nation of Sao Tome and… Read more »

Gabon: Rare Africa Books Donated To Princeton Theological Seminary's Archives

A lifelong collection of rare Africana from the l9th and 20th centuries has been donated to Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) by an alumn, the Rev. Dr. Henry Hale Bucher, Jr., a… Read more »

Cameroon: Summit Snapshot - Francoise Foning, Businesswoman Extraordinaire

Francoise Foning is a phenomenon. A startlingly successful businesswoman in her native Cameroon, she is also a mayor in her city, Douala, and a member of parliament. In Washington… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Fears For Extended Crisis in Eastern Congo

Trade, investment and the ongoing battle against HIV/Aids top the agenda of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni's visit to the United States, but the bloody chaos in the eastern… Read more »

Africa: Mugabe's Exit 'Not Discussed' at Meeting with Presidents

South African president, Thabo Mbeki, travelled to Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week on a whistle-stop diplomatic mission. Zimbabwe is in crisis and… Read more »