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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »