June 21, 2005
Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results
Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »
June 17, 2005
Namibia: Namibia Deserves Aid, Debt Relief, Despite 'Mid-Income' Status, Says President Pohamba
Hifikepunye Pohamba, who three months ago became Namibia's second president since independence in 1990, was one of five African leaders who met with President George Bush at the… Read more »
June 02, 2005
Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister
In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
May 06, 2005
Nigeria: Debt Relief Critical to Development and Democracy, Senators Say
In a first for the Nigerian National Assembly, a delegation of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and officials from the Debt Management Office traveled to… Read more »
April 21, 2005
Ghana: Erosion of Rights Has Divided Ghana and Must Be Reversed
Reflections on the Work of the National Reconciliation Commission Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator
After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
March 31, 2005
Madagascar: Madagascar Made 'Extraordinary' Effort To Become First Millennium Account Recipient - Applegarth
The Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors announced mid-March that Madagascar will receive the first funding from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid… Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation
In his State of the Nation address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »
February 09, 2005
Africa: African Solutions To African Problems: A Slogan Whose Time Has Passed
Last month, African Heads of State converged on Abuja, Nigeria, for a summit meeting of the African Union (AU), the organization that covers all of the continent's 53 member… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise
"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »
December 03, 2004
Kenya: Playwright Tries His Hand at the Novel Format
Before The Rooster Crows. Peter Kimani. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. 174 pp. $16.95, cloth. African Books Collective. Read more »
Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana
Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »
November 03, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations
The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »
November 01, 2004
Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Opens in Tokyo
Public-private partnerships between Asia and Africa topped the agenda Monday during the opening of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) in Tokyo, Japan, as… Read more »
October 12, 2004
Africa: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »
October 08, 2004
Libya: U.S. Non-Oil Businesses Eye Return to Libya
U.S. corporations are positioning for a return to Libya, where they have been banned from doing business since the late 1980s. Read more »
September 17, 2004
Liberia: Ambassador Sees Agriculture as Key to Liberia's Recovery
Nearly a year after the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) was inaugurated last October, the country's interim leader Gyude Bryant is scheduled to arrive in the… Read more »
August 02, 2004
South Africa: The Private Sector, Political Elites and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are most Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa poor and why are they getting poorer while most people in the rest of the world are becoming better off? The World Bank and the… Read more »
July 28, 2004
South Africa: Ten Years Later, Shared Interest Continues Anti-Poverty Mission
Shared Interest, an organization that guarantees loans for thousands of black South Africans, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. In an interview with AllAfrica's Maria… Read more »
July 21, 2004
Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building
In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »
July 20, 2004
Africa: U.S. Must `Walk the Walk' in Africa
Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Chair in Strategic Studies and serves as an Associate in the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Crocker's… Read more »
Africa: Conservation Should Be Major U.S.-Africa Policy Issue, Report Says
Nicholas P. Lapham, Vice President for Policy at Conservation International, joined other experts in making recommendations for U.S.-Africa policy in a Center for Strategic and… Read more »
April 30, 2004
Africa: The Nile River: Building or Stumbling Block?
The Nile River, long a trans-border artery linking 10 African countries, has become a major challenge for the nations that share its waters. The distribution of Nile waters has… Read more »
