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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Sudan: Act Now to Stop Dying on a Massive Scale in Darfur, U.S. Lawmakers Urge

A growing chorus of voices in the U.S. Congress is appealing for urgent action to halt the ongoing killings in the Darfur region of Sudan. Two Republican U.S. lawmakers who visited… Read more »

Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis

James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… 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 »

Africa: Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton Stress Africa's Importance at Sullivan Dinner

African countries need peace and security to prosper, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Advisor said speaking to the Leon H. Sullivan Summit Awards Dinner on… 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 »

Africa: Panelists Critique U.S. Role in Africa

Hollywood actors, academics and world leaders discussed issues facing Africa - both on the continent and globally - during a conference sponsored by TransAfrica Forum titled… Read more »

Sudan: U.S. Struggles to Address Situation in Sudan

With an estimated 30,000 killed, and two million displaced by Arab militias in Darfur, western Sudan, the U.S. has vowed to increase pressure on the Khartoum government to stop… 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 »