November 10, 2004
Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption
Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »
September 24, 2004
Liberia: Transparency A Necessity, Not an Option for Liberia, Says Top Government Advisor
The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Harry A. Greaves, Jr., Economic Advisor To The Chairman Of The National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H.… Read more »
September 21, 2004
Liberia: U.S. Government Supports Recovery and Transparency in Liberia with 'Zero Tolerance' for Corruption
The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »
Liberia: Private Sector Holds the Key to Liberia's Recovery, Bryant Says
The text (as prepared for delivery) of the keynote address by H.E. Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman, National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »
September 17, 2004
Liberia: Ambassador Sees Agriculture as Key to Liberia's Recovery
Nearly a year after the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) was inaugurated last October, the country's interim leader Gyude Bryant is scheduled to arrive in the… Read more »
September 12, 2004
Sudan: Neutral Force and New Government Needed to Pacify Darfur, Says Sudan Rebel Leader John Garang
To stop the killing in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, a neutral force of 30,000 soldiers is urgently needed, the leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement… Read more »
September 09, 2004
Sudan: Powell Declares Darfur Crisis Is Genocide
Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is a genocide. This was his first… Read more »
August 30, 2004
Angola: Giving Blood in Angola
Pedro Siloka told the people that I had given blood. First in Portuguese, then in Mbundu, he told the story of my first visit to Bie Province in 1991, when I had given blood at the… Read more »
August 25, 2004
Africa: African Capacity Building is Essential to Undermining Terrorist Financial Networks Say U.S. Reps
In line with the ongoing investigations into the financial networks of terror, Juan Zarate, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and William Fox Director of the Financial… Read more »
August 23, 2004
Sudan: Embassy in Washington Closes Doors `Until Further Notice'
Sudan's U.S. embassy in Washington, D.C. closed Monday, according to its official Web site and a notice posted outside the embassy's door. Read more »
August 17, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Scramble for Resources in DRC Leads to Massive Deaths, But Scant Attention
With an estimated 3.5 million Congolese dead over the last six years due to war, starvation and disease, the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the… Read more »
August 13, 2004
Africa: Attention for Africa Not Easy In an Election Year - Donald Payne
The following exchange with Rep. Donald M. Payne (Democrat - New Jersey) is one of an ongoing series of conversations about Africa policy in the next U.S. presidential… Read more »
August 16, 2004
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 »
August 05, 2004
West Africa: Debate Over al Qaeda's Connection to West Africa's Diamond Trade Takes New Turns
The arrest of a Tanzanian fugitive in Pakistan last week, release of the 9-11 Commission report in Washington and a forthcoming finding by a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone… Read more »
August 04, 2004
Sudan: To Save Lives in Darfur, Back African Peacekeepers and Demand War Crimes Accountability, Says ICG's Prendergast
Nearly four months after President Bush called the situation in Darfur the "worst humanitarian crisis of our time," the international community has responded with resolutions from… Read more »
July 30, 2004
Liberia: Refugees `Wasting' in U.S. While Wanting to Work
Torli H. Krua, founder and president of Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), came from Liberia shortly after the war started and is an active advocate for African refugees. Read more »
July 29, 2004
Sudan: Crisis in Darfur Does Not Require Military Intervention, Says U.S. Official
The United States is waiting for Sudan to act responsibly in the Darfur crisis and is not planning a military intervention, said Charles Snyder, principal deputy assistant… Read more »
July 28, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Issues First Ever 'Genocide Emergency'
The Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a "genocide emergency" yesterday, red-flagging the continuing violence in Darfur, Sudan. This is… Read more »
July 23, 2004
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 »
Liberia: ESPN Honors Liberian Soccer Star George Weah
Retired Liberian soccer star George Weah was honored this month at the 12th annual ESPY awards organized by the U.S. sports television network ESPN. Weah received the Arthur Ashe… Read more »
Sudan: 'Call Darfur a Genocide' Say Coalition Protestors
Hundreds of protestors rallied Thursday in front of the White House, calling on the United States and the UN Security Council to officially call the crisis in Darfur, western… Read more »
July 21, 2004
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 »
July 20, 2004
Africa: U.S. Must `Walk the Walk' in Africa
Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Chair in Strategic Studies and serves as an Associate in the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Crocker's… Read more »
July 14, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Lawmaker and Church Leader Arrested to Highlight Darfur Deaths
The campaign to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan has gotten a publicity boost this week from the arrests at the Sudan Embassy in Washington, DC. of U.S.… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Sudan: Panelists Urge the World to Act on Darfur, Sudan Official Denies Government Involvement
The international community has a responsibility to act immediately to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)… Read more »