Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results

Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »

Africa: G8 Debt Agreement to Benefit 23 African Countries; Separate Deal for Nigeria Mooted

The agreement on 100% debt relief for developing countries announced by finance ministers from the eight largest industrial nations on Saturday initially benefits 14 nations in… Read more »

Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been

Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »

Mozambique: `Women Have Society in Their Hands'

Ana Rita Geremias Sithole is visiting the United States on a three-week study tour with eight other female African leaders as a part of the U.S. State Department's International… Read more »

Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis

James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »

Africa: Eight African Nations Eligible For Millennium Challenge Account Assistance

The Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) voted Thursday to make 16 countries "eligible" for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) assistance this year. The… Read more »

Southern Africa: The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: A Model for Africa?

The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation,… Read more »

Mozambique: Healing People -- and a Country

In some parts of Africa, traditional healers are the first available person a sick person turns to when facing a health emergency. These healers are often a central component of… Read more »

Mozambique: Outspoken Provincial Governor Says Economic Success isn't Helping the Poor

Felicio Zacarias, governor of Mozambique's central province of Sofala, is famous. They call him "Samoriano", or Samora the younger, after Mozambique's first president Samora… Read more »

Mozambique: Frelimo's Future Presidential Candidate Sets Out His Stall

The swearing in last month of Armando Guebuza as the new secretary general of Mozambique’s ruling party, Frelimo, makes it certain that he will be the party’s presidential… Read more »

Africa: Mozambique Leads the World - in Clearing Land Mines

Two decades of war left Mozambique littered with land mines. One study by the Canadian De-mining Institute estimates that there are approximately two million land mines, covering… Read more »

Mozambique: Interview with President Chissano of Mozambique - Part 2

President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique was in Washington, at the end of February for a mini-summit of southern African leaders and President George W. Bush, and gave… Read more »

Mozambique: Interview with President Chissano of Mozambique - Part 1

President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique was in Washington, at the end of February, for a mini-summit of southern African leaders with President George W. Bush and granted an… Read more »

Southern Africa: 'Seize the Moment', Bush Urges Southern African Leaders

Events in Angola, particularly the death of Unita leader Jonas Savimbi five days ago, dominated an hour-long meeting between President George W. Bush and Angolan President José… Read more »

Mozambique: President Chissano Offers Development Vision to US Investors

For five years, Mozambique has had high GDP growth rates, seen inflation decline from double digits to single digits and developed a sound financial system, Mozambique President… Read more »

Mozambique: Weather Worsens, Flood Crisis Deepens

Hard rains continue to fall as Mozambique's government urges the more than 80,000 people in the towns of Marromeu and Luabo downstream from the rapidly filling Cahorra Bassa dam to… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Medal Tally Lags

Africa's tally of Olympics medals is growing, but there's a long way to go to beat the total of 34 won in Atlanta in 1996. Read more »

Africa: Athletes Break Through to 400m Finals

The eyes of Africa will be on her athletes at the Sydney Olympic Games on Monday. Read more »

Africa: Runners Break Through To 800-metre Semifinals

African runners achieved their best results in long-distance events at the Olympics on Saturday. Read more »

Africa: Women Dominate Long-distance Heats

Athletes from Ethiopia and Kenya dominated the first round of the women's 5000-metre heats in Sydney on Friday. They took five of the 12 top places to move ahead to the next round,… Read more »

Mozambique: Snapshot Of A Nation Rebuilding Its Dreams

The president's motorcade, numbering dozens of cars filled with local, national and foreign dignitaries, takes the detour that leads across a temporary bridge, crossing the mighty… Read more »

Mozambique: U.S. Officials Say Mozambique Flood Response Slowed by Miscalculation

In the wake of cyclones that devastated Mozambique, it appeared for a moment that a storm of another kind was about to sweep across Africa, the United States and Europe. Read more »

East Africa: East Africa Drought Hits the Horn, Famine Threatened

An estimated fifteen million people on the Horn of Africa are at risk of severe hunger this year warned USAID Administrator Brady Anderson in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Anderson… Read more »

Mozambique: NOAA Modeling African Flooding

- Although another tropical storm seems likely to dump more heavy rainfall into Mozambique on Monday, according to weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Read more »

Mozambique: Mozambique Story Edging Into View

After a slow start, U.S. media coverage of catastrophic flooding in Mozambique is picking up. "This is the biggest story in Southern Africa, the worst disaster in the region," says… Read more »