Sudan: Rights Group Criticizes Firms Over Darfur

An anti-genocide group has strongly criticized major international companies sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their silence on the ongoing crisis in the… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Threatens Continent

The carbon emissions of developed countries threaten to devastate sub-Saharan Africa in the coming decades, says a major United Nations report issued today. Read more »

Africa: Despite New Figures, Aids Funding Doesn't Meet Needs - Stephen Lewis

Excerpt from a speech by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World to the World Health Editors Network, Imperial College, London, UK Friday, November 23, 2007, 11:00 am. Read more »

Algeria: Romantic Drama is a Tale of Suspense and Intrigue

'The Other World'' directed by Merzak Allouache, is dramatic adaptation of a tale about a young French-Algerian woman searching for her missing fiancé. The movie… Read more »

West Africa: New Film Looks at West Africans in America

Informative, interesting, and humorous are three adjectives that can be used to describe this documentary. Taking place in the concrete jungle of New York, this documentary… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Hip Hop Artist Boobah Siddik Mixes Politics and Rhythm

Ivorian hip hop artist Boobah Siddik has been active in the hip hop community since he left West Africa in 1997 and headed for the U.S. For the past five years he has been… Read more »

South Africa: Govt Presses Major Powers on Darfur Force

South Africa has urged Russia, China, the United States and European Union countries to provide the heavy military equipment necessary to deploy Darfur's new hybrid… Read more »

Liberia: Govt Calls for Tough Action on Crime

The Liberian government called Sunday for the use of "maximum force" against armed crime after two separate incidents in which a Belgian employee of the Liberian… Read more »

Liberia: Major Road Building Begins in Capital

Construction and repair work on some of Monrovia's main thoroughfares officially began Friday, marking the launch of the first phase of an emergency road repair project… Read more »

Africa: Why China Beats Its Competitors

Low costs give Chinese investors in Africa a competitive advantage over their counterparts from other countries, a Chinese analyst told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Cape… Read more »

Africa: Major Reforms Boosting Growth, Says World Bank

Africa’s prospects for economic growth are improving as a result of reforms in macro-economic management and trade policy, as well as better governance, the World Bank… Read more »

Liberia: Big Steps Taken Toward Debt Relief

Liberia is on its way to clearing debts of U.S. $1.5 billion to international financial institutions under relief schemes designed for the world’s most heavily-indebted… Read more »

Liberia: IMF Announces Debt Relief Milestone

The International Monetary Fund has announced an important milestone in granting substantial debt relief to Liberia. Read more »

Africa: 'Recognize Our Heroes and Sheroes' - Zambian Ambassador Mbikusita-Lewanika

The Zambian ambassador to the United States, Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, 64, has had a wide-ranging and high-powered career. She studied at California Polytechnic University and… Read more »

Sudan: Meet Our Demands, Says Southern President

President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Government of Southern Sudan said in Washington, DC on Wednesday that the south’s boycott of the country’s Government of National… Read more »

Africa: TransAfrica Calls for Just Policies Towards Continent

TransAfrica Forum, the oldest and largest African American human rights advocacy organization for the African world in the United States, commemorates its 30th anniversary with a… Read more »

Ethiopia: Analysts Warn of New War With Eritrea

There is a growing danger of renewed war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the coming weeks, and both the United Nations and the United States must act quickly to head it off, the… Read more »

Uganda: Museveni and Bush Discuss Trade, HIV at Meeting

President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the White House, where the two heads of state discussed a variety of issues, including trade,… Read more »

Liberia: Johnson Sirleaf Tapped for Top U.S. Civilian Award

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been selected by President George W. Bush as one of eight recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S.civilian honor. Read more »

Sudan: Britain Threatens Sanctions as Darfur Talks Falter

As talks aimed at peace in Darfur got off to a faltering start in Libya at the weekend, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown threatened new sanctions against Sudan if the talks did… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Women Aim for the Presidency by 2012

Representatives of the Fifty Fifty Group, a women's activism organization in Sierra Leone, have been visiting Washington, DC, to receive an award for their work to increase… Read more »

West Africa: U.S. Group Honors Women Leaders

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Fifty Fifty Group, an organization supporting women's political participation in Sierra Leone, have received awards from the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Preventing Backslide Into War

Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, visits the White House today to discuss challenges to his country's fragile democracy. The last time a… Read more »

Sudan: Africa to Supply Most Darfur Peacekeepers

Africa is likely to contribute up to four-fifths of the troops making up the planned United Nations-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force to be deployed in Sudan's… Read more »

South Africa: Chinese to Invest R36.7 Billion In Local Bank

In a huge deal for South Africa and the continent, one of China's major banks is to buy a one-fifth share of Africa's largest bank. Read more »