Africa: Fragile African Health Systems Face COVID-19 Catastrophe

By March 31, Africa had 5,431 confirmed cases of COVID-19 , with almost a quarter (,1,353) in South Africa, followed by 656 in Egypt and  584 in Algeria. Read more »

Africa: On Africa Day - Who Has Taken Up the Mantle of Pan-Africanism?

Pan-Africanism – the liberation of Africans through regional cohesion and solidarity – has played a crucial role in shaping the continent's development. Read more »

Africa: Japan-Africa Summit Gives Continent New Leverage

When the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was launched in 1993 by Japan in co-operation with the World Bank, the United Nations and the UN Development… Read more »

Africa: Summit Needs to Promote African Renaissance 2.0

When former South African President Thabo Mbeki brought back the notion of an African Renaissance to African political circles in the late 1990s, the continent was at a different… 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: Leaders Must Rethink 'African Solutions for African Problems'

For more than a decade now, Africa has been trying to address its developmental and political problems through an approach favouring home-grown initiatives. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Senegal's President Plans Visit

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has announced plans to visit Zimbabwe this month to suggest an African Union-led mediation process to President Robert Mugabe. Wade told a… Read more »

Africa: 'New News' from Africa - Looking Beyond Death, Disease, Disaster and Despair

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the best-known and most award-winning journalists in the United States, has focused her recent career on covering Africa. After nearly two decades as… Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

South Africa: Corruption Trial Pressures Mbeki, Facing G8 Summit, to Fire Deputy

South Africa's most important corruption trial since liberation has ended in a 15-year prison sentence for Schabir Shaik, financial adviser to the country's deputy president, Jacob… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations

The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »

Africa: AIDS in Africa: Planning for a Long War

The Commission for HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa holds its second commissioners' meeting Tuesday in the Mozambican capital, Maputo. Commission Chairman, K.Y. Amoako, argues… Read more »

Africa: Peer Review Moving Forward, Says Nepad Secretariat Chief

African leaders have made "a very important commitment in terms of a new direction" to achieve recovery and development, according to Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu, who chairs the… Read more »

Mali: Malian Leader Still Hopeful for Ivory Coast Despite 'Complex Conflict,' Takes Swipe at Nepad

President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali is the guest of honour at the 6th biennial conference of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), which opened in… Read more »

Africa: Japan Pledges $1bn to Africa at Ticad 'Without Strings'

Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, opened a major conference Monday in Tokyo on development in Africa, with a billion dollar pledge in grant aid for the poorest continent… Read more »

Africa: Follow the Master Plan and Re-elect Obasanjo, says Nigeria’s Transport Minister

After 3 days of deliberations in the Nigerian federal capital, Abuja, the first African Ministerial Forum on Integrated Transportation (Amfit) ended a three-day conference on… Read more »

Africa: Nepad Embraced but Questioned at House Hearing

Partnership not judgement should be the U.S. response to Nepad - the New Economic Partnership for African Development - South Africa's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aziz… Read more »

Africa: Tanzania Minister Denies S.African Domination of Nepad

One of the decisions at the recent summit of the African Union (AU) in Durban, South Africa was that the regional implementation commissions of the New Partnership for Africa’s… Read more »

Africa: Libya’s 'Mr Africa’ on the AU, Nepad and Peer Review

The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, was the official host and chairman of the inaugural summit of the African Union (AU) in Durban earlier this month. But the leader who… Read more »

Africa: Looking for Results on Nepad and African Union

Hidipo Hamutenya is the Minister of Trade and Industry of Namibia and a leading member of the governing party, SWAPO, the South West Africa People's Organisation. After a long… Read more »

Africa: Senegalese President Confident of Nepad's Success Ahead of June G8 Summit

Picture President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, 74, nonchalantly wandering into the efficiently-run Cybercentre, at the plush hotel and conference centre in the capital, Dakar, where… Read more »

Africa: Absence of key African leaders at Nepad summit no big deal, says Senegal

Unofficial rumblings of discontent among senior government officials in Senegal, and outright irritation, annoyance and even anger by some Senegalese people, have greeted the… Read more »

Africa: Mbeki, Obasanjo, Bouteflika Absent from Nepad Meeting in Senegal

The programme for an important summit on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) in Senegal boasted an impressive line-up of African leaders. And many arrived. But… Read more »

Africa: 'Don't Hold Nepad Hostage Over Zimbabwe' says Minister

"Instead of lamenting on the sidelines, we have decided to be the authors of our own history; for that we have to take care of situations like the one in Zimbabwe, " says Senegal's… Read more »