February 03, 2006
South Africa: Mbeki Trumpets 'Age of Hope,' Outlines Steps to End Poverty
President Thabo Mbeki has proclaimed an "Age of Hope" in South Africa, in which economic growth is unparalleled and optimism high. At the same time he acknowledged serious problems… Read more »
February 02, 2006
Africa: Anglican Church Announces Plans to Combat Poverty, Climate Change
International representatives of the Anglican Church meeting in South Africa today launched a global initiative to bring church members around the world together to fight poverty… Read more »
January 31, 2006
Botswana: Men Should Be Targeted in Aids Fight, Botswana Health Minister Says
The fight against the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa goes well beyond lab rooms and hospital wards and involves social and political issues at all levels of society, particularly… Read more »
November 14, 2005
Zambia: National Malaria Control Program Expands, Intensifies with Lift from New Partners
Although largely unnoticed in the developed world, malaria strikes 500 million people a year and kills nearly a million children younger than five, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.… Read more »
October 04, 2005
South Africa: Innovative HIV/Aids Program Targets South African Teachers
Four South African teachers' unions have joined with U.S. and South African partners to save teachers' lives through an innovative program combining peer education, HIV testing and… Read more »
September 29, 2005
South Africa: De Beers Workers Rush for HIV Testing, Treatment
Global diamond giant De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by Anglo American Plc, was honored Wednesday night for its workplace programs on HIV/Aids. Jonathan Oppenheimer, De Beers's… Read more »
July 13, 2005
Africa: At Least 9 Africans Missing, 8 Injured in London Attacks
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July 01, 2005
Africa: G8 Should Focus on HIV, Women's Empowerment
When the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations meet next month in Scotland, they will debate how to address the HIV/Aids crisis and whether to significantly increase… Read more »
June 27, 2005
Zambia: Zambia Is a Peaceful Destination for Tourism and Investment - Mwanawasa
Levy Mwanawasa, who took part in last week's U.S.-Africa Business Summit, became president of Zambia in January 2002 after a hotly contested election the previous month in which he… Read more »
June 22, 2005
Mozambique: Country Pursuing Investment for Development, President Says
Armando Guebuza, who won the presidency of Mozambique in December 2004 elections, is one of the African leaders attending the Corporate Council on Africa's Business Summit in… Read more »
June 21, 2005
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 »
June 17, 2005
Namibia: Namibia Deserves Aid, Debt Relief, Despite 'Mid-Income' Status, Says President Pohamba
Hifikepunye Pohamba, who three months ago became Namibia's second president since independence in 1990, was one of five African leaders who met with President George Bush at the… Read more »
June 14, 2005
South Africa: President Mbeki Relieves Deputy President Zuma of Post
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has relieved the country's deputy president, Jacob Zuma, of his post. Read more »
June 12, 2005
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 »
June 08, 2005
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 »
June 03, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Presses G8 to Fund Africa Action Plan
With African issues high on the agenda of the summit of the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations next month, President Thabo Mbeki of South African appealed to… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
May 25, 2005
South Africa: Straddling Two Worlds - An Israeli Journalist Writes about his South African Childhood
Hirsh Goodman grew up in South Africa and as a young adult emigrated to Israel. His new memoir is called Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
April 15, 2005
Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book
Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »
March 24, 2005
Zimbabwe: Death by Denial: a Case for Zimbabwe
It is difficult to overstate the trauma and hardships that the increase in Aids-related morbidity and mortality has brought upon children in Zimbabwe. According to UNICEF, one in… Read more »
February 25, 2005
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 »
February 20, 2005
South Africa: Aids Underlies Sharp Rise in South Africa's Death Rate
New South African government statistics show that the number of reported deaths rose by a dramatic 57 percent between 1997 and 2002, mostly as a consequence of tuberculosis,… Read more »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Criticizes Debilitating Costs of Telecommunications
Hopes for cheaper telecommunications for South Africa have been raised by President Thabo Mbeki, who declared in his State of the Nation address that it was unacceptable that… Read more »
South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation
In his State of the Nation address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »