June 02, 2005
Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister
In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
May 20, 2005
Senegal: Africa Must Have Veto on UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Says
The African continent is entitled to at least one veto-wielding member at the United Nations Security Council, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Senegal's minister of foreign affairs, said… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
May 10, 2005
Africa: Powell Defends Obasanjo on Taylor and Calls for Greater Support for Africa
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be asked "to be unfaithful to the commitment he made" to provide asylum to former… Read more »
May 06, 2005
Nigeria: Debt Relief Critical to Development and Democracy, Senators Say
In a first for the Nigerian National Assembly, a delegation of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and officials from the Debt Management Office traveled to… Read more »
April 28, 2005
Liberia: U.S. Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor
The United States government is taking steps to increase pressure on high-level individuals who are suspected of fueling conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the last… Read more »
April 21, 2005
Ghana: Erosion of Rights Has Divided Ghana and Must Be Reversed
Reflections on the Work of the National Reconciliation Commission Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator
After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
February 25, 2005
Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been
Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of Côte d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »
February 09, 2005
Africa: African Solutions To African Problems: A Slogan Whose Time Has Passed
Last month, African Heads of State converged on Abuja, Nigeria, for a summit meeting of the African Union (AU), the organization that covers all of the continent's 53 member… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Ethiopia: We're Making Progress on Democracy and Aids, Says Ethiopia's Meles [2005]
Dialogue with Eritrea Essential for Peace Read more »
December 15, 2004
Rwanda: Conflict With DRC Inevitable Without Action From the International Community - Top Official
In the past few months, Rwanda's government has increasingly insisted on action from the international community to combat the threat it says is posed by the ex-FAR, Rwanda's… Read more »
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 »