October 14, 2005
Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger
As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »
September 26, 2005
Guinea: Global Alumina Agrees with UNDP to Advance Millennium Goals in Guinea
In the first agreement of its kind in the Republic of Guinea, a public/private partnership pact has been signed between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global… Read more »
September 22, 2005
Africa: Religious Leaders Seek To 'Keep The Momentum Going' On Millennium Goals - Ndungane
As world leaders convened in New York for the UN World Summit in New York earlier this month, influential religious leaders from around the world met last weekend to discuss the… Read more »
September 14, 2005
Africa: Building Human Capacity Key to Africa's Future, Says AAI President
Since its founding in 1953, the Africa-America Institute (formerly the African-American Institute) has developed and administered programs to educate and train Africans and to… Read more »
September 07, 2005
Africa: UN Report Urges Global Leaders to Avoid 'One More Empty Promise'
An annual report released today by the United Nations Development Programme takes a critical look at the failure of the international community to make progress toward the 2015… Read more »
August 02, 2005
Africa: Engineer Pushes for Science Education to Create 'Brain Gain'
Supporters of an initiative to improve the quality of science and engineering in Africa say the creation of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Knowledge Building and the Advancement… Read more »
July 29, 2005
Nigeria: Biafra War Echoes in Claims for Resource Control, Independence
The Biafra War seems to be part of Nigeria's distant past, but the fear of violence and the idea of partition are still present among citizens of Africa's most populous nation.… Read more »
July 15, 2005
Africa: Nepad's Peer Review Mechanism a 'Serious' Process, Officials Say
The African Union's peer review mechanism is a serious process that may usher in a new era of good governance in Africa, said representatives from the U.S. State Department, UN… Read more »
July 14, 2005
Tanzania: Coffee Producer, Fair Trade Advocate, Has U.S. Roots and Pedigree
Promotion of "fair trade" has become an increasingly important strategy of the campaign to alleviate global poverty. While consumers in developed countries have become more aware… Read more »
July 07, 2005
Africa: Aid Should be Tied to Needs, Goals, Says U.S. Official
However distracted by Thursday's bombings in London, the G8 meetings in Gleneagles, Scotland continued with consideration of global climate change and a working lunch that South… Read more »
July 01, 2005
Africa: G8 Should Focus on HIV, Women's Empowerment
When the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations meet next month in Scotland, they will debate how to address the HIV/Aids crisis and whether to significantly increase… Read more »
June 27, 2005
Zambia: Zambia Is a Peaceful Destination for Tourism and Investment - Mwanawasa
Levy Mwanawasa, who took part in last week's U.S.-Africa Business Summit, became president of Zambia in January 2002 after a hotly contested election the previous month in which he… Read more »
June 22, 2005
Mozambique: Country Pursuing Investment for Development, President Says
Armando Guebuza, who won the presidency of Mozambique in December 2004 elections, is one of the African leaders attending the Corporate Council on Africa's Business Summit in… Read more »
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 »
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