April 30, 2010
Eswatini: Prize-Winning Attorney Assures Environmental Groups Are Heard
When Swaziland's Environment Ministry denied NGOs full representation in environmental management discussions, environmentalist and public affairs attorney Thuli Brilliance Makama… Read more »
March 25, 2010
Africa: High-Level Forum Focuses on Building Capacity for Development
A high-level forum in Tunis this week focused attention on finding innovative solutions to the challenge of building the capacity to develop post-conflict societies. Read more »
March 24, 2010
Africa: Financing Green Technology Adoption
A controversial excerpt leaked from a 1991 World Bank memo signed by the U.S. administration’s current chief economic advisor, Lawrence Summers, outlined the… Read more »
March 23, 2010
Africa: Chissano Calls On Politicians, Scientists to Co-operate Over Water
This week marks World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent’s water resources and calls for our political… Read more »
March 18, 2010
Africa: Continent Needs Proactive Action on Climate Change, Expert Says
A three-day climate change conference being held in Accra, Ghana, ends on Thursday. It was organized by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and representatives from more than… Read more »
March 12, 2010
Africa: Civil Society Must Hold Govt Accountable, Says IMF Chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week made his third trip to Africa in a year, visiting Kenya, South Africa and Zambia… Read more »
March 08, 2010
Africa: From Crisis to Opportunity Through Clean Technology
Calestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also… Read more »
March 06, 2010
Africa: Facing Extreme Weather Head On, Ibrahim Forum Urges Action
Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to… Read more »
February 04, 2010
Africa: Continent Ripe for Citizen-Led Development Plan
There have been real improvements in Africa over the past decade. Economic growth has been averaging about five per cent a year, 34 million more children are in school, malarial… Read more »
January 27, 2010
Nigeria: Clinton Attacks Corruption and Bad Governance
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made scathing remarks on Nigeria's corruption and bad governance at a town hall meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC on… Read more »
Nigeria: Electoral Reform Key to Fighting Extremism - Former Minister
The disappearance of President Umaru Yar'Adua to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment for the past nine weeks – without thought to orderly constitutional succession – has… Read more »
January 25, 2010
Africa: Africa is Innovating in Financial Services, Food Sciences, Health - Bill Gates
In the second annual letter he has issued to the public to discuss his and his wife's philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft founder Bill Gates… Read more »
Africa: Bill Gates Issues Upbeat Take on African Health, Food Initiatives
Software entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates issued an upbeat assessment Monday on the prospects of overcoming the challenges faced by the world's poorest people –… Read more »
December 23, 2009
Africa: Smallholder Agriculture Transforms Lives of Poor
Africa's failure to transform its agriculture sector as rapidly as the rest of the developing world has left an abiding legacy of poverty and hunger. A huge increase in the number… Read more »
December 22, 2009
Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Absence Heightens Dismay Over Nation's Future
At the December 11 Colloquium on Nigeria sponsored by Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States, and led by famed novelist, Chinua Achebe, the most… Read more »
December 21, 2009
South Africa: 'Flawed Democracy' Slips in Governance Rankings
Which way is governance going on the African continent and particularly in South Africa? According to the newly released 2009 African Governance Report (AGR-II), put together by… Read more »
December 18, 2009
Tanzania: Kikwete Hopeful for Action On Climate Change, Optimistic On Africa's Future
Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete recently sat down for an hour-long interview with AllAfrica's Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman at State House in Dar es Salaam. In the… Read more »
Nigeria: Media, Civil Society Must Call Govt to Account
For the vast majority of Nigeria's population of more than 140 million, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) country review report for Nigeria published this week will have… Read more »
December 17, 2009
Nigeria: Abuja, Executive Branch Have Too Much Power, Says Peer Review
A major review of Nigeria compiled by its African peers says too much power is concentrated in the central government, inhibiting "true federalism," and that the executive branch… Read more »
December 02, 2009
Africa: Continent Has Central Role to Play Over Climate Change
Over the past year the countries of Africa have intensified their efforts to build a coalition on climate change. Across the continent, governments and communities have been… Read more »
Africa: Act Now to Improve Infrastructure, Says World Bank Leader
Africa's economic growth and poverty reduction are closely linked with the quality of its infrastructure – its power, transport systems, water supply and sanitation, and its… Read more »
November 30, 2009
Nigeria: Yar'Adua Should Draw Up Roadmap to Delta Peace
For the first time in years, Nigeria's Niger Delta seems to be looking up. Read more »
November 23, 2009
Africa: New Hope for Africa's Farmers
Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture… Read more »
November 13, 2009
Africa: Climate Change Boosts Need for Policies to Support African Farmers
Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its… Read more »
November 02, 2009
Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security
This year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger.… Read more »