July 15, 2003
Africa: Global Partnership Needed to Provide Marshall Plan for Africa
When President Jimmy Carter made the first state visit of an American president to Africa in 1978, the only countries on his tour were Nigeria and Liberia. Two decades later,… Read more »
June 04, 2003
Ethiopia: Drought and Hunger Bite Deeper as Appeal Falls Short
The UN World Food Programme is warning that despite an early response by the international community to the consequences of Ethiopia's drought, 12.5 million Ethiopians continue to… Read more »
June 01, 2003
Africa: IMF Under Attack by African Finance Ministers
South African finance minister Trevor Manuel slammed the International Monetary Fund today for secretly planning to divide its Africa Department along "colonial" lines into… Read more »
April 01, 2003
Africa: Agriculture Needs Higher Priority, Says USAID Administrator
"There is no constituency for agriculture," an apparently exasperated Andrew Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, told a Congressional… Read more »
March 26, 2003
Nigeria: Ethnic Clashes Disrupt Nigeria Oil Production, World Markets Hit
More than a week after an outbreak of ethnic violence in the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria, the army sent by the government to quell the disturbances claims to have tightened… Read more »
March 22, 2003
South Africa: Secret Contracts Row Puts Spotlight on Water Management
As national leaders, corporations, and non-governmental organizations gathered in Japan for the Kyoto World Water Forum, a South African row about secrecy was focusing attention on… Read more »
March 15, 2003
Central Africa: African Rainforests Need Protection, Congressmen Told
Congo Basin forests that were virtually untouched ten years ago are now threatened by increased logging of tropical hardwoods and expanding populations, the U.S. House of… Read more »
February 12, 2003
Botswana: Conserving Danny, Hector and Chinga - Botswanas Rhinos
What you first notice about Danny and his friend is their size. They are huge, and surprisingly nimble and graceful in movement. No, not sumo wrestlers, but rhinos. Read more »
February 10, 2003
Southern Africa: The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: A Model for Africa?
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation,… Read more »
February 01, 2003
Africa: Balancing Trade Rules, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Some parts of the international business community are beginning to sound like development agencies. At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland in late January and… Read more »
January 31, 2003
Africa: Trusting the Private Sector with the People's Water
More than half the population in African cities lives without access to pipe-borne water and depends on buying water from standpipe owners, water tankers or street vendors. Far… Read more »
January 23, 2003
Africa: Climate Change Spells Disaster for African Agriculture - Unless We Adapt
In the next 50 years, the world's population is expected to increase from six billion to nine billion. At the same time the planet they must survive on is under pressure; the… Read more »
January 14, 2003
Senegal: Popenguine - Women Join Hands to Revive a Community Resource
Wolimata Thiao is a towering, one-woman, tour de force. She has mobilised the women of Popenguine and surrounding villages, north of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to reclaim and… Read more »
January 13, 2003
Somalia: One Woman's Fight to Rescue the Environment
Somalia lost many things as a result of having no government for over a decade during the 90s, but one of the least obvious was an ability to protect its environment. Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
October 18, 2002
East Africa: African Ice Caps Disappearing
Like canaries in coalmines, which once signaled the existence of life-threatening gases before human miners could perceive them, tropical glaciers are a warning for our… Read more »
October 15, 2002
Africa: Famine in Africa is "Overwhelming the System"
The spread of famine in Africa now threatens well over 30 million people and is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to address the problem, the World Food Program warned… Read more »
October 12, 2002
Africa: Toxic Wastes Could Impact Africa for Generations
The UN estimates that 110,000 tons of obsolete toxic pesticides and associated wastes have accumulated in African countries in the last 4O years. These pesticides, sometimes in… Read more »
October 11, 2002
Africa: Industry Moves to Help Clean Up Toxic Wastes in Africa
Obsolete pesticide stockpiles have been identified in almost every African country. At least 50,000 tons of the outdated chemicals, as well as tens of thousands of tons of… Read more »
October 01, 2002
Southern Africa: Food Crisis - Slow Suffering In the Village
Skeletal children dying of starvation and the carcasses of livestock aren't yet found in the bone dry villages of Malawi's interior, but the dots connecting weather, disease and… Read more »
September 30, 2002
Africa: African Voices in the Streets of Washington
A South African unionist protesting the privatization of electricity, a Cameroonian development expert protesting an oil pipeline and a Tanzanian activist protesting plans to allow… Read more »
September 18, 2002
Chad: Chad Activist Wants Pipeline Put on Hold
The World Bank argues that the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project provides an opportunity for one of the poorest regions in Africa to diversify its economy and increase… Read more »
September 04, 2002
Africa: WSSD in Johannesburg Ends on Uncertain Note
AllAfrica's Akwe Amosu watched on Wednesday in Johannesburg as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the… Read more »
Africa: More Water in South African Taps
The World Summit has ended with a new pledge to reduce the number of people without access to sanitation by half before 2015. Meeting in Johannesburg, the world leaders also… Read more »
September 03, 2002
Africa: Business Leader Says Governments Must Set Framework for Action on Environment, Development
After earning a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, Mark Moody-Stuart joined the Shell oil company, rising to become the chair of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from… Read more »
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