October 27, 2007
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 »
October 25, 2007
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 »
October 22, 2007
Africa: Former President of Mozambique Wins Leadership Prize
Joaquim Chissano, the former president of Mozambique, is the first recipient of a new, high-profile prize to reward exemplary leadership by recently-retired African heads of… Read more »
October 20, 2007
Liberia: Major U.S. Charity Gives President Top Award
Africare awarded Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the 2007 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award this week. Read more »
October 18, 2007
Liberia: Africare's Julius Coles Pleased To Honor Old Friend
The largest Africa-related fundraiser in the United States each year is the dinner hosted in Washington, D.C. by Africare, the leading American aid and development organization… Read more »
Africa: Malaria Campaign Making Progress, Says Report
Four out of every five of the one million people who die of malaria each year are African children under the age of five, according to a new report issued by the United Nations… Read more »
October 17, 2007
Sudan: Food Delivery Drivers Killed in Darfur
Three truck drivers for the World Food Programme (WFP) have been shot dead while working for the United Nations food agency in Darfur, according to a WFP news release issued today. Read more »
October 15, 2007
South Africa: Leaders Meet to Promote Global South Trade
The leaders of three major growing economies of the Global South – South Africa, Brazil and India – are meeting in Pretoria this week to promote trade and cooperation… Read more »
October 11, 2007
Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation
"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »
October 10, 2007
Africa: War Costs Continent U.S. $18 Billion Annually
A new study shows that conflicts in Africa cost the continent over 300 billion U.S. dollars between 1990 and 2005 – an amount equivalent to all the international aid received… Read more »
October 09, 2007
Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election
Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »
October 04, 2007
Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection
Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »
Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building
Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »
October 03, 2007
Ethiopia: Advocate Says Ogaden Crisis Strikingly Similar to Darfur
A human rights advocate has told the United States Congress that the current situation in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia has striking similarities to Darfur in the run-up to… Read more »
Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Acts on Human Rights
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill supporting human rights and democracy in Ethiopia. Read more »
October 02, 2007
Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement
Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »
Sudan: Elders Visit Darfur For First Mission
A group of world-renowned humanitarians is visiting Sudan to address the “immense human suffering” in the Darfur’s ongoing crisis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the… Read more »
October 01, 2007
Senegal: President Wade Wants 'More Fair' Trade
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a "level field" for free trade with Africa that would eliminate "unfair" agricultural subsidies and encourage… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua
Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »
September 27, 2007
Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica
AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »
September 26, 2007
Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers
Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »
September 25, 2007
Africa: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S Congress
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were the two key government institutions in Washington… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: Aid Critical To Ensuring Benefits From Trade
While developing and industrialized countries continue to wrestle in the Doha Round of negotiations to reach a new international trade agreement, there is increasing recognition… Read more »