September 14, 2006
Africa: Future Lies With 'Community-Based Tourism' Says Kenyan Official
"Community-based tourism is opening up a new era," Dr. Dan Kagagi, CEO of Kenya's Tourism Trust Fund, told reporters Tuesday at the TourismAfrica 2006 meeting underway in… Read more »
September 12, 2006
Africa: Aggressive 'Tourist Offensive' Planned
African government officials, tour operators and service providers from all over the world and representatives from international organizations began the first of a week-long… Read more »
August 30, 2006
Africa: Women and Collective Action in Africa
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August 29, 2006
Africa: Building on AGOA for African Agricultural Trade Expansion
On the final day of the annual forum on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) last month, the United States and Rwanda signed a bilateral agreement aimed at increasing trade… Read more »
July 19, 2006
Africa: World Bank President Sees A Continent on the Move
World Bank President and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz addressing delegates yesterday, at the seventh Sullivan Summit of African and African American leaders, said… Read more »
June 12, 2006
Africa: Stakeholders Seek Ways To Broaden Agoa Opportunities
When the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was enacted in 2001, the legislation "changed U.S. political discourse with African countries from begging bowl to business… Read more »
Africa: Investors Want to See Good Practices Sustained, Africa Bank President Says
Not enough attention is being paid to African success stories, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told an Africa investment forum last week. Citing a decline in active armed… Read more »
April 25, 2006
Africa: New Hope for Tackling an Old Scourge on Africa Malaria Day
African children are dying of malaria at the rate of one every 30 seconds. Take a minute to try to comprehend that number – and two more die. Read more »
Uganda: Displaced People in the North Struggle for Basic Needs
Caroline Akoko has lived for almost two years at a camp for people fleeing their homes in northern Uganda, where 18 years of war between government forces and a rebel group has… Read more »
April 21, 2006
Nigeria: Govt Free of Most Foreign Debt, Pledges Social Investments
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria, says that a significant portion of the nation's revenues can be re-targeted to improve the lives of Nigerians, now that… Read more »
April 17, 2006
Liberia: Sirleaf Administration Issues 'First 150 Days' Report
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Liberia's post-war president on January 16, she outlined a number of initiatives aimed at producing tangible "deliverables" for the… Read more »
Liberia: We Want to Restore Our Dignity and See Liberia Prosper Again - Sirleaf
During her visit to the United States last month, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed a gathering of development experts at a luncheon on March 20 hosted by… Read more »
April 07, 2006
Benin: Music Lets Me See Beyond Color, Beyond Language - Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo, one of Africa's most prolific and best known artistes, is from Benin in West Africa. She started singing at age six, producing songs that span music genres and… Read more »
March 16, 2006
Liberia: 'Tremendous Potential', Says Investment Commission Chairman
Since Liberian President William R. Tolbert was assassinated in 1980 by junior military officers, the country has been in turmoil, with rival armed factions competing for power.… Read more »
March 14, 2006
Guinea: Bauxite Investment Spurs West African Hopes
In one of the world's 10 poorest countries, where life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years, where 75 per cent of the women are illiterate, and where almost everyone is unemployed,… Read more »
February 28, 2006
Liberia: Liberia's Sirleaf Seeks Civic Action, International Aid
As President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepares to make an official visit to the United States in mid-March, pressure is growing for the addition of $80 million in reconstruction and… Read more »
February 03, 2006
South Africa: Mbeki Trumpets 'Age of Hope,' Outlines Steps to End Poverty
President Thabo Mbeki has proclaimed an "Age of Hope" in South Africa, in which economic growth is unparalleled and optimism high. At the same time he acknowledged serious problems… Read more »
Ghana: Minister Says the Future of the Private Sector in Ghana Is 'Beautiful'
Ghana's Minister for Private Sector Development and the President's Special Initiatives, Kwamena Bartels, discusses the role and importance of the private sector to Ghana's economy… Read more »
February 02, 2006
Africa: Anglican Church Announces Plans to Combat Poverty, Climate Change
International representatives of the Anglican Church meeting in South Africa today launched a global initiative to bring church members around the world together to fight poverty… Read more »
January 27, 2006
Africa: Africare Recognizes New Board Chairman
Africare welcomed new board chairman W. Frank Fountain and celebrated the achievements of outgoing chair George Dalley at a reception Thursday hosted by Africare, the Corporate… Read more »
November 30, 2005
Africa: A Vital Weapon Against HIV/Aids
The worldwide destruction brought on by HIV/Aids cannot be overcome by an after-the-fact crisis management approach. We need a war mindset. The pandemic calls for a multi-pronged… Read more »
November 14, 2005
Zambia: National Malaria Control Program Expands, Intensifies with Lift from New Partners
Although largely unnoticed in the developed world, malaria strikes 500 million people a year and kills nearly a million children younger than five, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.… Read more »
November 01, 2005
Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery
For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »
October 26, 2005
Africa: Mobile Medics - Study Finds Heavy Toll from Physician Emigration
Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden from the international movement of trained medical doctors to wealthy countries, according to a study published in Thursday's New… Read more »
October 25, 2005
Rwanda: Educators Explore Ways to Meet Millennium Development Goals
Heads of two vastly different school systems have met in New York City this week to share ideas on the major restructuring challenge they both face. Rwanda's minister of Education,… Read more »











