Africa: Homegrown Approaches to Achieving Quality Education for Girls

Education is so much more than an opportunity to go to school; it is an opportunity to determine one’s future, to establish a voice within and outside of one’s… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Health Challenge is a Human Rights Issue

Access to health is a human right. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Commits to 'Next Level of Economic Transformation'

The G20 finance ministers met last week in Germany to discuss critical challenges facing the global economy, from climate change to migration to humanitarian emergencies like the… Read more »

Africa: Indian PM Modi's African Safari

Nearly nine months ago the third India-Africa Forum Summit, and the first that included all African states, was held with much fanfare in Delhi. Read more »

Tanzania: A Plea for Democracy in Zanzibar

There is an old Swahili proverb that a small fire can destroy a great forest. Read more »

Africa: How to Adapt to Beat Crippling Droughts

Right now, 14 million people across southern Africa face going hungry due to the prolonged drought brought on by the strongest El Niño in 50 years. Read more »

Tanzania: Local Books Open Worlds for City Kids

Before leaving Tanzania - where she worked on an education project - Jennifer Brookland, a senior writer and editor for Creative Associates International, visited a bookshop in the… Read more »

South Africa: Mystery Surrounds Couple's Death in Tanzania

The death of a young South African couple remains unsolved, after their bodies were found in an apartment in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, according to IOL. Read more »

Africa: African Awakening Will Avert Future Food Crises

Thirty years on from a famine that claimed more than a million lives, Ethiopia is making great strides towards food security. And though progress across the continent is uneven,… Read more »

Africa: From North to South, East to West, Media Freedom in Africa Under Challenge

The executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Alison Bethel McKenzie, delivered a wide-ranging report on press freedom in the world to the institute's world… Read more »

Africa: Africans Struggle to See Oil, Mineral Revenues

A major new survey of African countries which depend on mining or oil revenues shows that six in 10 people have difficulty in finding out how their governments spend the proceeds… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Rebels, Govt Close to Peace Deal

If the M23 movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo publicly renounces its rebellion, Kinshasa will accept the announcement and a peace deal will be signed five days later, say… Read more »

Africa: For GE, Africa's Infrastructural Needs Represent Business Opportunity - Jay Ireland

General Electric, a well-known American brand with longstanding engagement in Africa, is "expanding its footprint" across the African continent (see GE in Africa brochure). The… Read more »

Tanzania: Govt Fails to Enforce Child Labour Laws, Says HRW

Excerpts from the Human Rights Watch report, Toxic Toil - Child Labor and Mercury Exposure in Tanzania's Small-Scale Gold Mines published today: Read more »

Tanzania: Group Shines Spotlight On Mines Over Child Labour

Thousands of children, some as young as eight years old, are working in Tanzania's small-scale gold mines, exposed to numerous health risks, says a report published today. Read more »

Tanzania: Accounts From Tanzanian Child Miners

Quotes from child miners, collected by Human Rights Watch: Read more »

Tanzania: Improving Access to Health Care for Women and Children

Women in Tanzania face challenges accessing adequate and proper health care services, partly as a result of inadequate funding for healthcare facilities and limited access to… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - U.S. Can Do Better

President Barack Obama was correct when he told business leaders in Tanzania this week that togther the United States and Africa have "an enormous opportunity to unleash the next… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - an End to Paternalism

President Barack Obama has made a profound and impactful visit to Africa. Read more »

South Africa: Outpouring Over Mandela Challenges Obama

Nearly half a century before this weekend's trip to South Africa by President Barack Obama, a visit by Robert F. Kennedy at the height of apartheid oppression was described by a… Read more »

Africa: Obama's Coming - So's the Navy & the Air Force

The citizens of Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania are about to be hit over the coming week with the full panoply of an American presidential visit. Read more »

Africa: President Obama's Schedule in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania

Edited excerpts from a White House briefing on the schedule of President Obama's visit to west, southern and east Africa from June 26 to July 2. The briefing was by Ben Rhodes,… Read more »

Africa: Obama Expected in Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa Next Month

President Barrack Obama will visit Dakar next month,according to reports in the Senegalese press. Read more »

Africa: Thomas-Greenfield Likely Choice for Assistant Secretary

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tapped Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a widely respected career Foreign Service officer, to the department's top Africa post,  sources have… Read more »

Malawi: Malawian President Seeks Clarity On Border Dispute From International Court

President Joyce Banda has said that Malawi will urgently take the border dispute with Tanzania to the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) after claiming the intervention by… Read more »