February 11, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of Côte d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »
January 28, 2005
Angola: Book Outlines Trees, Misses the Forest
Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. Tony Hodges. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 236 pp. $22.95. Read more »
January 19, 2005
Zimbabwe: Man Discovers Relative's Past in Dust Diaries
The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps. Owen Sheers. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 310 pp. $23.00 cloth. Read more »
January 05, 2005
South Africa: Novel Explores Women's Experiences in Prison
Journey to Myself: Writings by Women from Prison in South Africa. Edited by Julia Landau. Rondebosch, South Africa: Footprints, 2004. 80 pp. Read more »
December 15, 2004
South Africa: Rainbow Nation Pursues `Elusive Equity'
Ten years after the fall of apartheid, many wonder whether South Africa's new government has the ability to keep its reforms afloat. With the belief that equity in society begins… Read more »
November 30, 2004
Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries
Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »
Botswana: Reaching Out With Anti-Aids Strategies for Women and Girls
Presentation by H.H. Mr. L.C. Lekoa, Botswana's Ambassador to the United States, for World Aids Day at "Reaching Women and Girls," a conference co-hosted by CSIS Task Force and the… Read more »
November 18, 2004
South Africa: Aelred Stubbs, Spiritual Mentor and Editor, Dies
When nine leaders of the black consciousness movement were put on trial in Pretoria in 1975, many of them far from home, and public interest ebbed during the protracted State case,… Read more »
October 12, 2004
Africa: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »
September 25, 2004
Zambia: Zambia Seeks to Turn Prospects to Economic Boom on 40th Anniversary - President Mwanawasa
Remarks by His Excellency Mr. Levy P. Mwanawasa, Sc., President Of The Republic Of Zambia At The Friends Of Zambia Reception at The Metropolitan Club, Washington D.C. Read more »
August 30, 2004
Angola: Giving Blood in Angola
Pedro Siloka told the people that I had given blood. First in Portuguese, then in Mbundu, he told the story of my first visit to Bie Province in 1991, when I had given blood at the… Read more »
August 16, 2004
South Africa: Bittersweet Travels - A Journalist Comes to Terms with a Troubled Continent
Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey, by Lynne Duke. Doubleday, ©2003. $24.00 hardcover. Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday Read more »
August 02, 2004
South Africa: The Private Sector, Political Elites and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are most Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa poor and why are they getting poorer while most people in the rest of the world are becoming better off? The World Bank and the… Read more »
Zambia: Steps Forward for Women's Economic and Political Empowerment
Mary Silavwe Mulenga is taking part in the International Visitor Regional Project for Africa through the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Program. She is traveling… Read more »
July 29, 2004
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 »
July 28, 2004
South Africa: Ten Years Later, Shared Interest Continues Anti-Poverty Mission
Shared Interest, an organization that guarantees loans for thousands of black South Africans, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. In an interview with AllAfrica's Maria… Read more »
July 21, 2004
South Africa: Clegg Returns to U.S. for Major Tour
Johnny Clegg is a singer/songwriter who grew up in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia and is best known for his work with Sipho Mchunu as part of the band Juluka. His later work… Read more »
July 07, 2004
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 »
June 17, 2004
Africa: Panelists Critique U.S. Role in Africa
Hollywood actors, academics and world leaders discussed issues facing Africa - both on the continent and globally - during a conference sponsored by TransAfrica Forum titled… Read more »
June 10, 2004
Africa: African Leaders Seek G8 Follow-Through
Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda and Algeria Presidents Meet G8 Today Read more »
June 09, 2004
South Africa: Youth Report on Aids Interventions
As part of the Global Health Council's Annual Conference, held June 1-4 in Washington, DC, public health experts and practitioners exchanged findings on youth perspectives on AIDS… Read more »
June 08, 2004
Africa: Health Panel Explores Impact of Media on Youth Behavior
Challenges and potential for mass media and social marketing strategies to reach youth with HIV/Aids prevention messages were explored during a panel at the Global Health Council's… Read more »
May 13, 2004
Botswana: Merck Official Says Partnership in Botswana is Learning from Experience and Passing It On
The African Aids pandemic has thrust pharmaceutical firms into the news, as companies and their supporters and critics have debated the appropriate role of intellectual property… Read more »
May 07, 2004
Eswatini: Unpaid Caregivers Ease Swaziland's Grim Struggle Against HIV/Aids
The village of Gamula is about as far from the center of power as it is possible to be in this Kuwait-sized country of a million people. Hunger is everywhere, in the bloated… 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 »