April 17, 2014
Africa: World's Media Chiefs Press African Leaders on Freedoms
Editors and publishers from across the world have singled out the governments of Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Swaziland for threatening free expression and media freedom. Read more »
Africa: U.S. Private, Public Sectors Step Up to Power Challenge
My grandmother spent her whole life in southern Ethiopia and passed away a few years ago without ever having switched on a light. I also spent much of my early life in Africa,… Read more »
April 02, 2014
Ghana: Student Accepted to All Ivy League Schools in U.S.
A New York high school student whose family immigrated to the United States from Ghana has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools in the U.S, according to CNN. Read more »
April 01, 2014
Africa: Young Leaders Have Hope for Africa
Hundreds of people packed a Congressional committee room last week to see a panel of young leaders discuss their ideas for positive change across Africa. Read more »
March 31, 2014
Africa: Europe and Africa - Crocodiles With One Stomach
Two heads, one stomach? This is how a former minister described Africa-Europe relations last month, using the West African metaphor of an Adinkra crocodile to say both continents… Read more »
March 20, 2014
Africa: Stolen Funds Dwarf Development Aid - Mbeki
The illicit flow of money out of Africa is at least double what the continent receives from development assistance, according to conservative estimates. Large corporations are… Read more »
March 05, 2014
Senegal: Dakar Reaches Out to Finance Big Development Plans
Senegal's Minister of Budget Mouhamadou Mactar Cisse met with business representatives in Washington, D.C. last month to present the country's ambitious development plan and… Read more »
February 20, 2014
Nigeria: Women's Group Receives Major U.S. Award
A Nigerian organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women in the country's legal systems has received a major award from an American foundation for its "outsized impact"… Read more »
February 08, 2014
South Africa: Ford Foundation Pledges Support for 'Visionaries' Tackling Inequality
In 2004, a decade into South Africa's extraordinary experiment with democratic government, Archbishop Desmond Tutu reminded us that we could "kiss reconciliation and forgiveness… Read more »
January 21, 2014
Africa: Three Myths That Block Progress for the Poor
The introduction to the 2014 Gates annual letter, published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Read more »
Africa: Empowering Women Builds Better Futures
Melinda Gates says everyone wins - and lives are saved - when teenage girls are in school rather than having babies. Excerpted from the 2014 Gates annual letter, published by the… Read more »
Africa: Gates Tackles Prophets of Doom On Poverty, Foreign Aid
The American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has mounted a vigorous attack on prophets of doom who say that poor countries are destined to remain so and that foreign… Read more »
January 16, 2014
Central African Republic: More CAR Peacekeepers May Be Needed
Amid fears that the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) could descend into a genocide, a senior member of the Obama administration's foreign policy team says the time… Read more »
December 12, 2013
Africa: We Must Continue the Long Walk - Ambassador
An address delivered by Ebrahim Rasool, South African ambassador to the United States, to a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, in the National Cathedral, Washington, DC: Read more »
December 30, 2013
Africa: Egypt One of Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists
Egypt has become one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »
December 27, 2013
Africa: Championing a Development Agenda Beyond 2015
Molly Elgin-Cossart, senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, reflects on lessons learned from the United Nations High-Level Panel on the… Read more »
December 12, 2013
South Africa: 'Boy, Did They Blow It' - Mandela's Soccer City Memorial
Never, never and never again will South Africa receive in one day anything like the number of global leaders that turned up for Nelson Mandela's memorial service at the FNB stadium… Read more »
December 11, 2013
Africa: Major Progress in Malaria Fight - Report
Despite an increase in the number of people at risk for malaria, mortality rates have dropped dramatically since 2000 through the use of a handful of tools that global health… Read more »
December 10, 2013
South Africa: President Obama's Full Speech at Mandela Memorial
U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a powerful speech at former South African president Nelson Mandela's memorial service: Read more »
December 09, 2013
Liberia: Fighting for Liberia's Future – One Issue at a Time
A Conversation with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Read more »
December 05, 2013
Central African Republic: UN-Backed Troops Set to Deploy in CAR
The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on Thursday to approve UN intervention in the Central African Republic (CAR), giving African and French troops already in… Read more »
December 02, 2013
West Africa: U.S. to Boost Public-Private Investment for Growth
As she begins a trip to Ghana, Liberia and Senegal this week, Elizabeth Littlefield, president and chief executive officer of the United States government's development finance… Read more »
November 28, 2013
Zimbabwe: Former British PM Denies Zimbabwe Coup Plot Claim
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has released a statement denying that he put pressure on South Africa while he was in office to help remove Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe… Read more »
November 22, 2013
Africa: Better Coordination Needed to Eradicate Malaria
Malaria researchers believe that better coordination and new technologies, such as the use of vaccines and sophisticated disease mapping, can inject new life into the ambitious… Read more »
November 18, 2013
South Africa: U.S. Rapper Eminem to Perform in South Africa
Showtime Management has announced that multiple award-winning U.S. rapper, Marshall Mathers popularly known as Eminem, will perform in South Africa early next year on his Rapture… Read more »