Africa: Textile Producers Get a Boost from Trade Bill Adopted in Pre-Adjournment Congressional Flurry

Legislation that has been credited with spurring expanded American trade with Africa received a late-hour extension from the United States Congress just before both houses… Read more »

South Africa: Strategic Concerns Deepen S.Africa-U.S. Shared Interests

Nigerian oil may be crucial to U.S. energy needs but South African President Thabo Mbeki seems to be the crucial figure in U.S. political needs in Africa, and also increasingly… Read more »

Sudan: Bush, Mbeki Urge Quick Deployment in Darfur

U.S. President George W. Bush and South African President Thabo Mbeki are pushing for an urgent increase in the number of peacekeepers in Darfur. In talks at the White House on… Read more »

Africa: UN Trade Agency Aims to Bring the Poor into the Process

The Geneva-based International Trade Center (ITC) and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation are hosting a forum in Berlin, focusing on how exports can reduce poverty in the… Read more »

Africa: Building on AGOA for African Agricultural Trade Expansion

On the final day of the annual forum on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) last month, the United States and Rwanda signed a bilateral agreement aimed at increasing trade… Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders Seek Ways To Broaden Agoa Opportunities

When the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was enacted in 2001, the legislation "changed U.S. political discourse with African countries from begging bowl to business… Read more »

Africa: Diplomats Stage 'Africa Week' in Washington to Showcase What Africa Has to Offer

The African Union, whose members include 53 African nations, is this week marking the anniversary of the founding on May 25, 1963 of its predecessor, the Organization of African… Read more »

Liberia: 'Tremendous Potential', Says Investment Commission Chairman

Since Liberian President William R. Tolbert was assassinated in 1980 by junior military officers, the country has been in turmoil, with rival armed factions competing for power.… Read more »

Africa: UN Report Urges Global Leaders to Avoid 'One More Empty Promise'

An annual report released today by the United Nations Development Programme takes a critical look at the failure of the international community to make progress toward the 2015… Read more »

Tanzania: Coffee Producer, Fair Trade Advocate, Has U.S. Roots and Pedigree

Promotion of "fair trade" has become an increasingly important strategy of the campaign to alleviate global poverty. While consumers in developed countries have become more aware… Read more »

Africa: Summit Had Good Attendance and Deals Got Done, Says Corporate Council Leader

Addresses by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Constance Newman and Paul Applegarth from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation highlighted… Read more »

Africa: Business Summit Aimed at Boosting U.S. Investment in Africa, Says CCA President

The fifth U.S. Africa Business Summit, sponsored by the Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa, opened in Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday night with a gala awards dinner.… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations

The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Opens in Tokyo

Public-private partnerships between Asia and Africa topped the agenda Monday during the opening of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) in Tokyo, Japan, as… Read more »

Africa: Attention for Africa Not Easy In an Election Year - Donald Payne

The following exchange with Rep. Donald M. Payne (Democrat - New Jersey) is one of an ongoing series of conversations about Africa policy in the next U.S. presidential… Read more »

Africa: Agoa Key To An Expanding Relationship with Africa, Says Top U.S. Trade Aide

Florizelle Liser has spent twenty years developing and implementing policy at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). She currently serves as assistant U.S.… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Presses Economic Reforms, Seeks Agoa Extension

Since the election at the end of 2002 of Mwai Kibaki as president of Kenya, replacing Daniel Arap Moi, the new government has embarked on an ambitious program of reform that has… Read more »

Africa: Africans View Globalization As Positive But Unfair, According to Eight-Nation Survey

Two out of three Africans surveyed in a poll released last week by GlobeScan and the World Bank believe that globalization has a positive effect on their lives. However, most… Read more »

Uganda: Museveni at CSIS - Not Pessimism But Concern for Africa's Future

The following is the text of an address, followed by questions and answers, by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read more »

Africa: Uganda's President Calls Extending African Import Law Urgent

High tariffs and trade barriers on African-manufactured products block the continent's development, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told a Washington audience at the Center for… Read more »

Africa: Agoa Delay Risking Jobs and Investment, House Hearing Told

Praising the "undeniable success" of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (Agoa), Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Florizelle B. Liser told the House Subcommittee on Africa… Read more »

Ghana: 'We Expect to Qualify for MCA’, Ghana Finance Minister Says

A few weeks before the Bush administration is scheduled to announce the list of countries eligible for assistance under an expanded foreign aid program, known as the Millennium… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa - Africa's Brazil?

Picture this. Night clubs thronged with multi-racial yuppies, dead ringers for that elusive tribe who tout beer and life insurance on Johannesburg billboards. Military convoys… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan Settlement Possible in 'Days', Says State Department's Top Africa Diplomat

Although the goal of a December 31 peace agreement in Sudan has been missed, the government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) have… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki On Landmark Visit To DRC, Assessing Peace Process And Looking For Trade

South African President Thabo Mbeki is making the first state visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by a South African leader. Mbeki flew into Kinshasa on Tuesday,… Read more »