March 23, 2001
Sudan: Bipartisan Effort to End War and Slavery Promised
Bipartisan Congressional voices denounced Sudan's government at a press conference in Washington D.C., Thursday, and called for sanctions against the north-east African nation… Read more »
March 21, 2001
Africa: Africa News From The U.S. Congress
The key legislation among the almost one dozen bills concerning Africa introduced in Congress since the beginning of the year target the conflict over intellectual and property… Read more »
March 19, 2001
Equatorial Guinea: President in Washington DC to Win US Embassy
On a week long "personal" visit to the United States, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is telling everyone who will listen that his nation needs a US… Read more »
March 15, 2001
South Africa: Drug Company Makes Key Concession in Generic Drug Dispute
As part of what it calls an "accelerated program to fight HIV/Aids in Africa," the international pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has decided not to fight the manufacture… Read more »
March 09, 2001
Africa: Powell Selects Kansteiner for Africa Post
Secretary of State Colin Powell has tapped Walter H. Kansteiner III, who served on the former Bush foreign policy team, for the department's senior Africa post. Read more »
March 02, 2001
Nigeria: "Significant" Progress Against Drug Traffickers, Says State Department Official
Although Nigeria remains a "worldwide hub" of narcotics trafficking and money-laundering, last year "it made a significant step forward," in the international war against… Read more »
February 28, 2001
Sudan: Report Recommends Policy To End Fighting
An international task force put together by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has released policy recommendations that it says will end the… Read more »
February 21, 2001
Africa: US AIDS Drug Policy Likely To Remain Unchanged
Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Bush administration indicated Tuesday that it will not reverse a Clinton executive order that makes it easier for poor… Read more »
February 16, 2001
Nigeria: Government Teams Up With U.S. Firms For Another LNG Plant
Four American oil companies Friday teamed up with the Nigerian government to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an LNG plant, which would be Nigeria's second. Read more »
February 15, 2001
Africa: Multinational Encounters Explore Race Issues
A multinational project to explore issues of peace and justice has brought together South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and US historian John Hope Franklin. One result is a… Read more »
February 05, 2001
Central Africa: A Moment For Peace?
Following visits to Washington and New York by two young leaders -- principal combatants in Africas largest conflict, U.S. officials and other specialists say they have guarded… Read more »
February 01, 2001
Africa: Saying Africa is 'Undervalued', Senator to Ask Bush for Positive Signal of Interest
Although Africa has been "undervalued and underestimated," U.S. trade relations with the continent should experience a "dramatic increase", a leading Republican Senator told… Read more »
January 29, 2001
Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila To Visit U.S.
Joseph Kabila, the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will make a two-day visit to the United States the Department of State said Monday. Read more »
January 22, 2001
Senegal: M'bow Of Senegal Among Schomburg Honorees
Professor Amadou Mahtar M'bow, former director of UNESCO, will be one of six persons honored during the 75th anniversary celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black… Read more »
December 20, 2000
Africa: National Summit On Africa Struggles To Survive
For most of the 10 months that have followed last February's National Summit on Africa, uncertainty about the future has hovered over the body that grew out of the 5-day meeting. Read more »
December 08, 2000
Africa: OPIC Puts Out Call For New Proposals To Manage Africa Infrastructure Fund
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is seeking new management for its $350m Africa Infrastructure Fund. Read more »
December 06, 2000
Nigeria: Economic Delegation In U.S. To Push Partnership
The Joint Economic Partnership Committee (JEPC) began it's third session in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, aiming to consolidate initiatives mooted during President Clinton's visit to… Read more »
December 01, 2000
Africa: Major Investment House May Lose Key Africa Fund
The US$350m New Africa Infrastructure Fund, backed by the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is up for grabs because of the failure of the firm… Read more »
November 16, 2000
Zimbabwe: Help Us Get Mugabe Out, Delegation Asks U.S. Officials
Zimbabwe's economic slide will accelerate and political tensions heighten over the next two months, warned a delegation of the Movement for Democratic Change, in Washington to meet… Read more »
October 31, 2000
Africa: Africa Offers Opportunity, Officials At World Bank/IMF Meeting Say
Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda appeared at a reception welcoming participants to the Africa Forum 2000 that got underway in Washington Monday. Read more »
October 10, 2000
Africa: Still No U.S. Money For UN Peacekeeping In Africa
As Congress nears recess, all money for peackeeping missions in Africa remain zeroed out of a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001 that provides… Read more »
September 29, 2000
Liberia: President Clinton Orders Expulsion Of Liberians Deferred
Thousands of Liberians threatened with being returned to Liberia after they fled civil conflict there during the 1990s have won a temporary respite. Read more »
September 28, 2000
Liberia: Liberians Fear Deportation From U.S.
Thousands of Liberians who fled civil conflict in their homeland during the 1990s waited anxiously all day Thursday for word that their expired official "temporary protected… Read more »
August 28, 2000
Nigeria: Stay In The Union, Clinton Tells Nigerians
U.S. President Clinton has told Nigerian leaders they should resist the temptation to leave the Union. Nigeria, he told them, should draw its strength from its ethnic, cultural and… Read more »
Africa: US Supports UN Permanent Seat for the Africa
The United Sates supports the granting of a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council to the African continent, President Bill Clinton said this weekend, during his… Read more »