January 28, 2004
South Africa: Buthelezi Says Inkatha Will Contest Election Peacefully
The countdown has begun towards South Africas general elections expected to be held in March or April. And the spotlight is once again on the volatile province of KwaZulu Natal,… Read more »
January 27, 2004
South Africa: Anglo-Zulu War Revisited, Key Zulu Battle Victory Recreated
Half hidden in the early morning mist and drizzle, Isandlwana, the distinctive hill the Zulus call the "little hut," overlooks the escarpment and the plains that were once a bloody… Read more »
January 16, 2004
Sudan: Sudan Settlement Possible in 'Days', Says State Department's Top Africa Diplomat
Although the goal of a December 31 peace agreement in Sudan has been missed, the government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) have… Read more »
January 15, 2004
Africa: Two African Students At Elite French Military School Die Of Cold In Training Exercise
Two African student soldiers from the prestigious Saint Cyr military school in France died of exposure overnight on Tuesday, after a snowstorm during a training exercise in the… Read more »
January 14, 2004
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 »
January 06, 2004
Cote d'Ivoire: Former Rebels Return to the Government in Abidjan
The former rebel ministers in Cote d'Ivoire have ended their three month boycott of the coalition government in Abidjan. Now known as the New Forces, most of the ministers… Read more »
December 15, 2003
Ethiopia: 100 Reported Dead After Soldiers Target Civilians in Gambella
Soldiers in the town of Gambella, 450km (280 miles) west of Addis Ababa, are reported to have engaged since Saturday in violent attacks against leading members of a local ethnic… Read more »
December 08, 2003
Sudan: President Bush Telephones Bashir And Garang in Sudan
In a surprise move to propel Sudan towards a peace settlement, U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday telephoned Sudan president Omar al-Beshir and SPLM/A rebel leader, John… Read more »
December 04, 2003
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 »
December 03, 2003
Mali: Malian Leader Still Hopeful for Ivory Coast Despite 'Complex Conflict,' Takes Swipe at Nepad
President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali is the guest of honour at the 6th biennial conference of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), which opened in… Read more »
November 21, 2003
West Africa: Ecowas Chairman Kufuor Speaks on Faltering Ivorian Peace Talks
Cote d'Ivoire's prime minister, Seydou Diarra and former rebel-turned-information minister, Guillaume Soro, held talks in Accra with Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor on… Read more »
November 19, 2003
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 »
November 14, 2003
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorian New Forces Spokesman Says Gbagbo Must Go, Accra Summit Failed
West African leaders - including Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo - gathered for an emergency summit on Cote dIvoire in Ghana on Tuesday. The objective was to try to get the… Read more »
November 12, 2003
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 »
West Africa: West African Leaders Call for UN Peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
West African leaders called on the United Nations Tuesday to convert the regional peacekeeping mission operating in troubled Cote d'Ivoire into a UN peacekeeping force. Read more »
Liberia: Sirleaf to Chair Commission on Good Governance: 'We Can't Slip Back'
As part of the Liberian peace process agreed to during negotiations earlier this year in Ghana, Gyude Bryant, who chairs Liberia's interim government, has asked Ellen Johnson… Read more »
Liberia: Help Us Rebuild Our Hospital, Liberian Bishop Asks
With peacekeepers deployed and an interim government in place in Liberia, how much is the humanitarian situation improving? United Methodist Bishop John Innis, who leads one of the… Read more »
November 08, 2003
Uganda: Tourism Key to Uganda Economic Revitalization, Says Museveni
"When you are in space, you don't see Washington; you don't see the tall buildings of New York. You see the Great Wall of China and the great African Rift Valley," Ugandan… Read more »
November 06, 2003
Eritrea: Enough! A Critique of Eritrea's Post-Liberation Politics
Dan Connell has been a 'participant-observer' of the Eritrean scene for nearly three decades, starting in the 1970s during the liberation struggle. He followed events in the… Read more »
October 22, 2003
Liberia: U.S. Funding for Liberia Awaits Resolution of House and Senate Differences
The U.S. Congress has approved emergency funding for Liberia as part of the $87 billion spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan that passed both the Senate and the House of… Read more »
October 20, 2003
Sudan: Powell to Kenya for Sudan Peace talks
Secretary of State Colin Powell will arrive in Kenya Tuesday to push for conclusion of peace talks on the Sudan underway in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. Powell will make the… Read more »
October 19, 2003
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 »
October 17, 2003
East Africa: House Subcommittee Approves Sanctions Bill to Pressure Ethiopia, Eritrea
In the U.S. Congress, Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Africa approved sending a "Resolution of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute Act of 2003" to the full House International… Read more »
Liberia: Coalition Appeals to Americans to Pressure Congress for Liberia Peace Funds
A non-partisan coalition of U.S. groups and individuals is appealing to Americans across the country to contact Congress in support of a $200 million emergency aid package for… Read more »
October 15, 2003
Liberia: 'We Need to Understand Where We Went Wrong,' says Brumskine
Liberia's transitional government has been launched and Chairman Gyude Bryant has two years to set this battered country back on its feet. A compromise candidate selected as part… Read more »