September 24, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Children Caught in Crossfire in DRC
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned in recent days that fighting in the eastern Congo is placing children in an increasingly vulnerable position –… Read more »
September 23, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Taking Pity on a Teenage Mother
Amidst stories of terror and suffering from people fleeing fighting in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Unicef correspondent Sarah Crowe heard an… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again
In this essay, written for the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the publisher Walter Bgoya tells of his years… Read more »
September 21, 2007
Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official
The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »
Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa
In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »
September 20, 2007
Ethiopia: UN Report Warns of Food Crisis in Ogaden
Parts of eastern Ethiopia could face a major food crisis if the shortage in the region is not immediately addressed, an inter-agency United Nations report released Wednesday… Read more »
Sudan: Group Calls for Armed Protection of Darfur Civilians
Human Rights Watch has urged the African Union and the United Nations to give their joint Darfur peacekeeping force "rapid response" capabilities, with enough attack… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts
The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »
September 18, 2007
Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Backs SADC Talks
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative to promote a negotiated political solution in Zimbabwe offers the only realistic way out of the current crisis, and the… Read more »
September 20, 2007
Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations
In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: Why Worry about Africa?
The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »
September 15, 2007
Uganda: Medical Aid Dispute 'Misunderstanding.' Says NGO
The Ugandan mission of the aid organization, Médecins Sans Frontières-Spain, has described reports that it is administering HIV/AIDS and TB drugs that are not yet… Read more »
September 13, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region
In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »
Liberia: Bush Extends Stay for Liberians in U.S.
Thousands of Liberians facing deportation from the United States were granted an 18-month extension by a presidential order published by the White House on Wednesday. Read more »
September 07, 2007
Africa: World Bank Hopes to Light Continent
The World Bank hopes to bring affordable and environmentally-friendly lighting products to up to 250 million Africans by the year 2030. Read more »
September 06, 2007
Somalia: Crisis Among World's Worst, Says Rights Expert
The scale of human rights abuses and the displacement of people in Somalia has made it among the world's worst situations of its kind, a rights expert has told a meeting in… Read more »
September 05, 2007
Zimbabwe: U.S. Food Company Sold to Govt After 15-Month Review
The leading American food manufacturer, H.J. Heinz Company, says its sale to the Zimbabwe government of a local subsidiary is in the best interests of both Heinz and its Zimbabwean… Read more »
August 31, 2007
Sudan: Can Europe and China 'Save' Darfur?
After all the U.S. government's rhetoric about Darfur's genocide, and all its finger-wagging over the inaction of other nations, it is an instructive irony that the forces… Read more »
August 24, 2007
Sudan: Govt Accused of Breaking Darfur Arms Embargo
The human rights group, Amnesty International released photographs Friday showing the Sudanese government continuing to deploy offensive military equipment in Darfur in what the… Read more »
August 20, 2007
Africa: Care To Quit U.S. Food Aid Program
The aid organization, Care, is withdrawing from U.S. food assistance programs because of inefficiency and the harm the programs do to local efforts to achieve food sufficiency. Read more »
August 16, 2007
South Africa: Central Bank Again Hikes Interest Rates
South Africa's central bank has again increased interest rates in its fight against inflation. Read more »
Congo-Brazzaville: President's Son Loses Graft Court Case
The High Court in London has dismissed an attempt by Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, son of the president of the Republic of Congo, to have documents linking him to allegations of… Read more »
August 14, 2007
Liberia: Taylor Seeks to Postpone Trial Again
The special court trying the former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, will next week consider an application by defence lawyers to postpone the trial until January next year. Read more »
Mozambique: President Promotes Private Enterprise, Investment
On a continent often described by its problems, many countries, including my own, would rather be defined by the solutions they adopt and the decisions they are implementing. Read more »
July 30, 2007
Liberia: Goodwill May Yield Tangible Dividends for Old Ally
Thanks to widespread support for Liberia's fledgling post-conflict democracy in the U.S. Congress and within the Bush administration, several thousand Liberians living in the… Read more »