June 25, 2010
Guinea: Election Gives Signs of Hope
At a moment when the tide of global democracy is seemingly in reverse, it is heartening to note the enthusiasm with which many voters in Africa are participating in campaigns,… Read more »
June 24, 2010
Africa: Seven Nations Named in Top Ten 'Failed States'
Seven of the world's top 10 "failed states" are in Africa, according to a study published in the United States. Read more »
June 03, 2010
Africa: Think Tank Attacks West as 'Out of Touch' on Africa
An influential British think tank has warned the West that it will lose out to emerging nations unless it replaces its "humanitarian" approach to Africa with a more strategic focus… Read more »
June 02, 2010
Africa: 'Patronizing' West Risks Losing Trade, Influence to Emerging Powers, Warns Think Tank
The executive summary of the report issued by the British think tank, Chatham House, entitled "Our Common Strategic Interests: Africa's Role in the Post-G8 World": Read more »
May 25, 2010
Africa: Advocacy Group ONE Assesses G7 Nations on Aid
Nearly five years after the G7 countries promised at their meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, to increase development aid to Africa, the global anti-poverty advocacy group, ONE,… Read more »
Africa: Aid Campaigners Call for New Plans for Development Goals
Industrialized countries have delivered an historic increase in development aid to Africa in the past five years, but they have gone only three-fifths of the way towards meeting… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change, Financial Crisis Hurt Progress Towards Millennium Development Goals
The global economic crisis and climate change threaten to curtail already slow progress on meeting the social development targets of the Millennium Development Goals, says a new… Read more »
Africa: Annan Slams Leaders for 'Personal Enrichment', 'Authoritarian Behaviour'
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report issued on Tuesday that while a number of African leaders stand out as "champions of development," they are still… Read more »
May 24, 2010
Liberia: Sirleaf Says Nation Can Achieve Self-Sufficiency in 10 Years
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is visiting Washington this week for talks with Congressional leaders and a White House meeting on Thursday with President Barack Obama and… Read more »
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 »
