Africa: Global Crunch Gives Continent's Leaders Responsibilities

Although the current global economic crisis was triggered by the financial practices of industrialized nations, African leaders have important responsibilities to meet if they are… Read more »

South Africa: Govt Scores Own Goal Over Peace Conference

An attempt by South African soccer authorities to show how the 2010 Fifa World Cup could promote peace and harmony not only in South Africa, but through Africa and the world, was… 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 »

Sudan: Darfur Aid Workers Abducted

Five Darfur aid workers employed by the international medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), were abducted Wednesday night, the agency said. Read more »

Sudan: Obama Condemns Expulsion of Aid Agencies

In his most important intervention on Africa policy since his inauguration, President Barack Obama of the United States has condemned Sudan's expulsion of international aid… Read more »

Sudan: Govt Bans Aid Agencies From Darfur

Sudan's government has barred three leading international aid agencies from operating in war-torn Darfur as well as in the north and eastern regions of the country, putting at risk… Read more »

Africa: Freedom Declined in 2008, Says Rights Group

Freedom House, the Washington-based independent non-governmental watchdog, has described 2008 as a year of "regression" for sub-Saharan Africa in its annual report on political… Read more »

Ghana: Opposition's Atta Mills Leads Election

Ghana's opposition challenger for the country's presidency, John Atta Mills, is retaining his slight lead in a run-off election as the final votes are counted. Read more »

Ghana: Nation Heads for Presidential Runoff Election

Ghana will hold a second round of presidential elections on December 28 after neither of the principal candidates secured more than 50 percent of the vote. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Annan Says Mugabe Has Failed

Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has urged Southern African leaders to play a more active role in bringing about a transition to an inclusive government in… 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 »

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Bans Annan, Machel, Jimmy Carter

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has barred the former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the former United States President, Jimmy Carter, and the advocate for the… Read more »

Africa: Top U.S. Charity Lauds Bush Africa Policy

Africare, the leading United States charitable organization helping Africa, has awarded President George W. Bush the 2008 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: UN Envoy Obasanjo Plans to Meet Rebel Leader

Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president who has been appointed special United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is planning this weekend to meet… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Armed Men are Raping Women, Looting Homes, Says NGO

Armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are looting homes, raping women and forcing civilians to carry water for them, says Rebecca Wynn of the Oxfam agency.… Read more »

Zambia: Voters Anxious But Polls Disputes Resolved

Zambians go to the polls to elect a new president on Thursday amid high levels of anxiety about the result, but with disagreements over election procedures largely resolved, says… Read more »

Africa: Women's Rights Linked to Good Governance

In an interview marking the publication of the 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Mary Robinson, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, discussed with AllAfrica's Katy… Read more »

Africa: Government Improves Across Continent

The quality of governance improved in nearly two-thirds of sub-Saharan African nations between 2005 and 2006. Liberia showed the biggest leap in government performance in the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Victims Get Short Shrift in Power-Sharing Deal

The power-sharing agreement which sets up a coalition government for Zimbabwe offers little scope for dealing with past human rights abuses, denigrating the role of civil society… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Children's Silent Killer

An important conference which culminates in Gabon today could help save the lives of millions of children by bridging the gap which often separates efforts to improve health and… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Justice or Peace? War Victims Speak

In Africa's worst conflicts, victims' voices are rarely heard during the elite debate that treats peace and justice as though they were an either-or. Read more »

Africa: The Politics of Combating Aids

As this year's International Aids Conference begins in Mexico City, AllAfrica guest columnist George Katito says African governments and civil society will need to assert… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Talks Must Address Violence, Displacement

If talks between Zimbabwe’s government and the opposition are to help Zimbabweans regain the kind of society they deserve, they will sooner or later have to address a number… Read more »

Sudan: World Shamed Over Darfur Helicopters

An international coalition of activists on Thursday set out to name and shame governments around the world for their failure to provide even one of the additional helicopters… Read more »

Africa: Countries Must Plan Road Map for eHealth

Developing countries in the Global South, which have already introduced innovative technology such as mobile banking, need to drive the development of "eHealth" –… Read more »