June 05, 2008
Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York
A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »
May 28, 2008
Kenya: Top Community Organizer Empowers Youth
Kenyan health care advocate, activist and academic Dr. Miriam K. Were is in Japan today to receive a major new prize established by the Japanese government, the Hideyo Noguchi… Read more »
March 18, 2008
Africa: UK Envoy Calls for Urgent Citizen Advocacy on Trade
Paul Boateng, the British cabinet minister who left that post to become his country's high commissioner to South Africa, has been visiting the United States with the declared aim… Read more »
March 11, 2008
Africa: Continent's Top Young Leaders Named
Twenty-three Africans are among 245 executives, scientists, journalists, sports stars and other public figures named by the World Economic Forum as "Young Global Leaders"… Read more »
February 18, 2008
Africa: Bush Calls For Free Polls in Zimbabwe
U.S. President George W. Bush used visits to Benin and Tanzania at the weekend to call for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, to support a power-sharing deal in Kenya and to… Read more »
February 16, 2008
Africa: Working With Partners, President Has Impacted Disease and Conflict, Administration Official Says
United States President George W. Bush departed Friday on his second trip to Africa, accompanied by his wife Laura. The traveling party – including White House aides and… Read more »
February 14, 2008
Congo-Kinshasa: New Earthquake Hits Lake Kivu
An earthquake hit the Lake Kivu region today and was reported to have brought down houses and injured people. Read more »
January 28, 2008
Ghana: In a Field With The Blind
Near the Karni dam in the Jirapa District of the Upper West region of Ghana, a small agricultural development program demonstrates how a little assistance can leverage human… Read more »
January 25, 2008
South Africa: Govt Declares Electricity Emergency
At the end of a week of unprecedented power cuts across southern Africa, South Africa's Cabinet has declared a "national electricity emergency" and announced… Read more »
January 21, 2008
Kenya: A Doctor, Two Nurses and a Dispensary
The small Myaribo dispensary in the Rukanga community, lying about 30 kilometers from the city of Nyeri, has only four rooms. But here, where for so long there was nothing, these… Read more »
Kenya: Honey Bees, Goats and Hope
In the Myaribo sublocation not far from the Myaribo dispensary, where Doris Mwangi heads the Kamaneke Dairy Group, we are leaning against the fence of a pen in the group's… Read more »
Kenya: Small Steps Toward Solving Big Problems
"Poverty dispossesses people," says Mark Botongore as we head north from Nairobi on our way to one of the sites of the Central Kenya Dry Area Project (CKDAP). Mark is the… Read more »
January 09, 2008
South Africa: Cabbages Beneath the Power Lines
It is hard to believe that just over 10 years ago the Siyazama garden, in the township of Khayelitsha, was no more than a sandy wasteland over which forbidding power lines loomed. Read more »
South Africa: Sprinklers Salute Summer Food
Alfred Ngcizela, a member of Hlumani ("growing bigger") Garden in Khayelitsha, stands between beds of spinach, sprinklers whooshing around him in peaceful salute to… Read more »
South Africa: Cape Town Goes Organic
The market for organic vegetables in Cape Town has increased massively over the last few years, locals in the industry agree. Read more »
South Africa: A Revolution Fuelled By Organic Vegetables
A quiet revolution is pulsing through the huge residential areas spread out on the edges of Cape Town. Read more »
January 08, 2008
Kenya: I Believe in Institutions, Now and for Future Generations - Jennifer Riria
Dr. Jennifer Riria left a high-status career as a Kenyan university professor and an international civil servant with United Nations organizations to revive a floundering women's… Read more »
December 07, 2007
Nigeria: 'Brothers At Each Others' Throats'
Roy Mog-Appia's attention is focused on a sheet of white paper, where he scribbles hastily. A few minutes later, he slides the notepad across the table. Read more »
December 03, 2007
Gabon: Uncertainty Looms as Bongo Marks 40 Years of Power
Gabon faces an uncertain economic and political future after marking the 40th anniversary of President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s accession to power on Sunday. Read more »
Nigeria: Local Official Brings Power to the People
Kevin Aniebonem's voice is difficult to hear over the generator roaring in the background. The 24-year-old buys four liters of petrol every day to keep a light bulb running in… Read more »
November 27, 2007
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Continent
The carbon emissions of developed countries threaten to devastate sub-Saharan Africa in the coming decades, says a major United Nations report issued today. Read more »
November 14, 2007
Africa: Major Reforms Boosting Growth, Says World Bank
Africa’s prospects for economic growth are improving as a result of reforms in macro-economic management and trade policy, as well as better governance, the World Bank… Read more »
October 23, 2007
Liberia: An Entrepreneur Makes Rebuilding a Successful Business
Five years ago, Justin Zigbuo left a comfortable life in the United States to return to his native Liberia to start a business making building blocks out of pressed and cured earth… Read more »
October 18, 2007
Liberia: Africare's Julius Coles Pleased To Honor Old Friend
The largest Africa-related fundraiser in the United States each year is the dinner hosted in Washington, D.C. by Africare, the leading American aid and development organization… Read more »
Liberia: Profile - Willa Reaves
Willa Reaves fled Liberia as a child of eleven, with her family, after the coup of 1980 ushered in a worsening period of instability and conflict. Among the early groups to leave,… Read more »
