Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty

Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »

Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty

Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »

Africa: We Can Eliminate Extreme Poverty By 2025

Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty, is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He believes that extreme poverty can be eliminated by 2025… Read more »

Africa: Zimbabwe Has 'Potential for Change' - Says Top U.S. Congressman in Wide-Ranging Interview

Donald M. Payne, who has represented New Jersey's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives since 1989, chairs the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and… Read more »

Africa: Good Governance Drive Makes Progress

A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town… Read more »

Africa: Business Engagement Critical to Global Health, Says Obama Adviser Gayle Smith

Gayle Smith, a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and senior director for relief, stabilization and development at the National Security Council, addressed the… Read more »

Africa: Continent Makes Unsteady But Remarkable Progress, Says Report

The annual report of the Africa Progress Report says that despite authoritarian and corrupt leaders, wars and coups, the overall trend in Africa is towards less conflict, more… Read more »

Africa: How Michelle Obama Can Help Africa

When Michelle Obama, the first lady of the United States, visits Ghana with President Barack Obama in July, the powerful voice she has used to empower disadvantaged girls at home… Read more »

Africa: Adopting an Integrated Approach to Malaria Control

Some public health workers say dealing effectively with malaria requires an integrated approach. As an example of this, the Carter Center used the same community-based networks… Read more »

Africa: No Magic Bullet For Malaria Control

Dr. Brian Greenwood of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the prospects for success in the campaign to eradicate malaria with AllAfrica's Cindy Shiner.… Read more »

Africa: Battling Malaria - Choosing a Corner

A hot debate among scientists, health workers and donors used to center on the question of whether malaria could be eradicated or if it was more feasible to devote time and… Read more »

Africa: How a Sports Writer Unleashed a New Wave of Philanthropy

Elizabeth McKee Gore is director of Nothing But Nets, one of the most successful campaigns to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets to malaria-endemic countries. The global Roll… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Fighters Join in Race Against Time

In the midst of the second concerted effort to eliminate malaria from the world, scientists and health workers are increasingly hopeful that significant progress can be made in the… Read more »

Africa: Continent's 'First Ladies' Meet to Promote Health, Education

Fifteen spouses of African heads of state and government, from countries ranging from Swaziland to Kenya and Sierra Leone, have joined in a unique summit in Los Angeles,… Read more »

Nigeria: Non-Profit Syringe Factory to Fight Aids, Create Jobs

The aid community often focuses its health projects on hospitals and clinics, but the Pan African Health Foundation chose to go in a different direction – by building a… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Seeks U.S. $2 Billion in Aid

Zimbabwe's new unity government is appealing for U.S. $2 billion over the next 10 months to help it deal with emergencies and to kickstart the economy, South Africa's finance… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Our Situation is Dire, Tsvangirai Tells Region in Aid Appeal

The new Zimbabwean prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday to appeal for aid to South Africa and other countries in the Southern African… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Unity Government May Need Up to U.S.$5 Billion

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that rebuilding his shattered country would require an international aid package of up to five billion U.S. dollars. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Cholera Cases Rise Above 70,000

The number of Zimbabweans infected with cholera has risen above 70,000, a new update released by the World Health Organisation has stated. Read more »

Africa: Obama Reverses U.S. Ban on Abortion-Linked Aid

The decision by United States President Barack Obama to overturn the Bush administration's ban on funding assistance programs which provide abortions or abortion counselling -… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Britain, U.S. Caused Cholera, Says Govt

A Zimbabwean cabinet minister has accused Britain, helped by the United States, of masterminding the country's cholera outbreak in a "biological chemical war, a genocidal… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Must Go, Says West

As governance in Zimbabwe continues to crumble and the United Nations reports nearly 14,000 suspected cholera cases, Western powers have stepped up their rhetoric against President… Read more »

Africa: Winning the Fight Against Aids?

The global fight against Aids is not a losing battle – at least not entirely. On the positive side, more money is being ploughed into combating the disease: last year, global… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: One Million Children Get Life-Saving Mosquito Nets

Nothing But Nets, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation, aims to prevent malaria by providing free mosquito nets for children. In this guest blog, Adrianna Logalbo, deputy… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: People Flee, and Flee Again

Civilians fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic sometimes  find a safe place, only to have to flee gain when fighting spreads, says Francois Dumont of… Read more »