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 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 »
October 08, 2003
Kenya: Kenya is Safe and a Gateway to Africa, Kibaki Tells Business Group
Expanded trade, investment and tourism is what Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki hopes will result from his two-day official visit to Washington this week. "Let us make this a… Read more »
October 07, 2003
Kenya: Kenyans Leave U.S. Bemused at Continued Travel Warning
At White House State dinners, toasts are usually fluffy words of undying friendship before a convivial and elegant meal; but Kenya President Mwai Kibaki spoke bluntly Monday night,… Read more »
October 06, 2003
Kenya: Kibaki Fails to Persuade Bush to Lift Warning Against Kenya Travel
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was warmly welcomed at the White House by President George W. Bush Monday morning but at the end of the Oval office discussion that lasted almost an… Read more »
October 02, 2003
Kenya: US Will Help Improve Anti-Terror Defences, Bush Promises
Although Kenyans are anxious to see U.S. government warnings against travel to their country lifted, "at the moment, Kenya is a place where [U.S.] citizens should be wary of… Read more »
September 30, 2003
Ethiopia: Meles Defends Demand for New Ruling on Border With Eritrea
The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki are two of many African leaders who attended the opening ceremony in Japan of the third Tokyo… Read more »
September 22, 2003
Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference
Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »
September 04, 2003
East Africa: Sudan Government, Rebels Still At Odds Over "Framework Document"
Speaking to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, representatives of the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army… Read more »
July 26, 2003
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 »
July 23, 2003
Mauritius: Subsidies, Preferences Could Set Back Agoa Gains, Says Trade Minister
African countries had high expectations that the next World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in September would be the culmination of a "development round" of talks focused… Read more »
July 17, 2003
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 »
July 09, 2003
Sudan: Foreign Minister Pleads for End to US Sanctions Following Air Crash
A two year old toddler was the only survivor in a Sudan Airways plane crash early Tuesday, in which 115 people were killed - including 11 crew. Read more »
July 04, 2003
Africa: When We See Suffering, We Will Not Turn Away - George Bush
The message U.S. President George W. Bush says he is bringing to Africa is that America cares about Africa's future and that it is in the U.S. national interest for Africa to… Read more »
June 24, 2003
Kenya: US Terror Warnings and Bush Failure to Visit Anger Nairobi
The travel warning issued for Kenya, the closing of the U.S. embassy and now the decision by President Bush not to visit Kenya during his trip to Africa next month, has left a… Read more »
June 20, 2003
Africa: White House Announces Five-Nation Africa Trip
The White House Friday formally announced that President George W. Bush will visit Africa between July 7 and 12. Read more »
Kenya: Terror Threat Closes American Embassy in Kenya
The State Department has announced that the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, which was closed Friday because of what officials termed "a serious terrorist threat," will remain closed on… Read more »
June 12, 2003
Uganda: 'Powerful Forces' in WTO Using Famine In Africa For Own Farmers, Says Museveni
In a toughly-worded comment to a luncheon audience Thursday that seemed aimed at the agricultural policies of the United States and Europe, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said… 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 »
June 11, 2003
Africa: Africa Subsidizing the West, Says Museveni Following Meeting With Bush
African commodities and raw materials are processed in wealthy nations and then resold by companies and corporations in those nations at prices many times greater than what is paid… Read more »
June 09, 2003
Africa: Secondary Education Must Become a Priority, African Conference is Told
"Knowledge and information are power," said Ugandas Education Minister, Khiddu Makubuya. "Our future is in our youth and we must offer them the best possible start in life". Read more »
June 04, 2003
Ethiopia: Drought and Hunger Bite Deeper as Appeal Falls Short
The UN World Food Programme is warning that despite an early response by the international community to the consequences of Ethiopia's drought, 12.5 million Ethiopians continue to… Read more »
May 05, 2003
Ethiopia: Pioneer Artist Skunder Boghossian Dies in Washington, DC
Ethiopian artist and pioneer of modern African art Alexander Skunder Boghossian was found prone and unmoving in his Washington, DC apartment on Sunday by friends who visited to… Read more »
May 01, 2003
Ethiopia: Art from the Ethiopian Diaspora Featured at the Smithsonian Museum
"Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora" will be at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC from May 1 to October 5, 2003. It is a… Read more »
April 25, 2003
Sudan: Peace in Sudan, How Close?
Although just last week, commenting on background, one senior administration official here in Washington bravely predicted a comprehensive peace settlement by late June, few other… Read more »