August 08, 2016
Africa: Africa's Top Public Opinion Survey Under Threat
The consortium which runs Africa's most authoritative public opinion surveys faces funding difficulties. Writing for AllAfrica, Johnnie Carson says that coming at a time when… Read more »
July 18, 2016
Africa: 'What Can South Africa Be, What Can Africa Be, What Can the World Be?'
Software pioneer Bill Gates has delivered the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual lecture at the University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus on the eve of Mandela Day, which marks the birthday… Read more »
June 10, 2016
Africa: Zéneb Touré – « The AfDB will position Civil Society Organisations at the Heart of the High 5s »
In the corridors of the Annual Meeting of the AfDB which was held in Lusaka, the silhouette of Zéneb Touré, the African Development Bank Civil Society Engagement… Read more »
May 09, 2016
Africa: Network Aims to Promote African Women as 'Gamechangers'
Woman journalists across Africa are being invited to join a network which aims to achieve better coverage of initiatives led by women and children and of the issues that affect… Read more »
December 02, 2015
Africa: Celebrating the Africa Society and 15 Years of Educating Americans
The Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, a Washington, DC-based NGO that involves and educates Americans about Africa, held an 'Evening of Commemoration and Engagement'… Read more »
October 07, 2015
Africa: African Civil Society Under Threat, Warns Mary Robinson
The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate… Read more »
October 05, 2015
Africa: Africa Rising? No, Africa Stalled
Africa's premier survey of the quality of governance across the continent shows that it has not improved in the past four years. Read more »
August 04, 2015
Zambia: Street Harassment - Women Fight Back
Driving to work I heard a call-in radio show about a woman who had been stripped naked in the streets because her dress was seen as indecent. Read more »
June 17, 2015
Africa: Gates Foundation Changes Focus to 'Last Mile' of Delivery
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams and Melissa Britz interviewed Dr Ayo Ajayi, the director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Africa Team, about the foundation's new… Read more »
June 05, 2015
Africa: Africa's Leaders Must Take 'Decisive Action' to Generate Clean Energy - Kofi Annan
Some African countries are already leading the world in low-carbon, climate-resilient development, says Kofi Annan, in the annual report of the Africa Progress Panel. Read more »
April 24, 2015
Africa: Malaria Costs Africa U.S.$12 Billion a Year
In an interview with AllAfrica for World Malaria Day on April 25, Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, says while death rates… Read more »
April 14, 2015
Nigeria: 'Our Job Is to Shoot, Slaughter and Kill' - Boko Haram's Reign of Terror in North-East Nigeria
The Executive Summary of the Amnesty International report released on April 14: Read more »
Nigeria: Boko Haram Has Abducted 2,000 Girls - Report
Boko Haram militants have abducted upwards of 2,000 girls in the past two years, some of whom have been forced to become child soldiers alongside abducted boys, reports the human… Read more »
December 01, 2014
Africa: Entrepreneurs Will Create the Jobs
In the last week alone, the international media has been buzzing about Chi, a Nigerian drinks company, and Africell, the largest mobile phone operator in Sierra Leone and Gambia.… Read more »
October 15, 2014
Africa: Do African Union Governance Reviews Work?
Is the instrument adopted by the African Union to improve the quality of governance across the continent actually working? Yarik Turianskyi and Steven Gruzd look at what the… Read more »
October 10, 2014
West Africa: Ebola Hits Health Workers
The World Health Organization (WHO) says in its latest Ebola report that those dealing with the outbreak in Liberia are so overwhelmed that they cannot keep reliable statistics on… Read more »
October 02, 2014
Nigeria: 2015 Elections Can Set a New Benchmark in Nigeria
In February 2015, Nigeria will be holding elections to choose both national and state-level leaders for executive and legislative arms of government. Though the polls are still… Read more »
August 08, 2014
South Sudan: Rights Groups Want Sanctions, President Endorses Peace Talks
As peace talks between leaders in Juba and their former allies in government sputter on, and aid agencies warn of a looming famine, major human rights lobbies are pressing for a… Read more »
July 24, 2014
Africa: U.S.-Africa Summit Must Listen to Voices of the People
In a guest column for AllAfrica, E. Gyimah Boadi of Ghana's Center for Democratic Development says the vast majority of Africans who prefer democracy over authoritarian regimes… Read more »
June 05, 2014
Nigeria: Amid Insecurity, Danjuma Foundation Targets 'Whole Person'
With Nigeria's growing insurgency making local and international headlines, a pioneering philanthropic organization is quietly making headway in some of the areas most affected by… Read more »
Nigeria: Amid Challenges, Local Work Matters
Nigeria news – in-country and internationally – is dominated by the kidnapping of schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram and the wider insecurity the abductions… Read more »
June 04, 2014
Nigeria: 'We Hope…and Keep Trying' – TY Danjuma Foundation Director
At a time when Africa's most populous nation and largest economy is reeling from intensifying attacks by a shadowy extremist movement, civil society efforts to address Nigeria's… Read more »
June 02, 2014
Congo-Kinshasa: Rape, Sexual Violence Targets Women Across the DRC
Rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not limited to the war zones in the eastern parts of the country - women detained miles away… Read more »
May 19, 2014
Africa: 'No Child Anywhere in the World Should be Born to Die'
By a host of metrics, women and their children have been getting healthier in recent years. Between 1990 and 2010, the annual number of maternal deaths dropped from more than… Read more »
May 05, 2014
Congo-Kinshasa: Hope for Kids in Kinshasa
Despite horrific abuses perpetrated on women and children, the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rarely make international headlines. Read more »
