April 05, 2013
Africa: AllAfrica - Celebrating 'We Are the World' - Today
Twenty-eight years ago this month, dozens of popular musicians "checked their egos at the door" of a Los Angeles studio to record 'We Are the World' (WATW) - generating over $75… Read more »
March 25, 2013
Africa: The New Global Landscape and Your Role as Global Leaders
Following is the text of a FEEEDS series speech delivered by Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 21, 2013 Read more »
March 24, 2013
Nigeria: Grieving the Loss of Achebe's Special Voice
Many voices have contributed to a better understanding of the complexities, the challenges and the beauty that is all over the African continent. But if we have to ask if there… Read more »
Nigeria: Chinua Achebe - 'The Most Perceptive Observer of African Life'
Chinua was a dear friend. We first met more than forty years ago when he asked for my support with his literary journal OKIKE. And at a time when foundations did not think that… Read more »
March 17, 2013
Africa: Transforming the U.S.-Africa Commercial Relationship
This 113th session of the U.S. Congress has an opportunity to transform U.S. trade and investment relations with Africa. Read more »
February 27, 2013
Africa: Carson Feted for Policy Legacy
At a reception honoring outgoing Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson, members of Congress from both parties and leading Africanists paid tribute to the veteran diplomat's… Read more »
February 21, 2013
Africa: U.S. Official Flags Poaching As Security Threat
The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded. A new surge of slaughter is, according to wildlife experts, worse than the mass killings of the 1970s and… Read more »
January 27, 2013
Egypt: Investigation Continues After Wild Poliovirus Is Detected
Nearly eight years after the World Health Organization declared Egypt polio free and two years after the last reported case, wild poliovirus has popped up in the capital,… Read more »
January 15, 2013
Mali: Test of U.S. Will in Mali Conflict
Mali, only recently seen as a model African democracy, has crashed onto the stage of world attention, bringing formidable challenges for the international community. Whether to… Read more »
January 18, 2013
Africa: Columbia University Hub Aims to Engage African Research
We live in an increasingly globalised world and this is transforming how we live. Thanks to new technology we can now communicate seamlessly and instantly across the globe.… Read more »
January 17, 2013
Somalia: U.S. Recognizes Somali Government
The United States has officially recognized Somalia's government in Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said after meeting with Somali… Read more »
January 03, 2013
Africa: New Model Aims to Boost Higher Education
For decades after sub-Saharan Africa's emergence from the colonial era, its universities were weakened by civil strife and political turmoil. Read more »
December 17, 2012
Africa: Investing in Africa 'The Savage Way'
In his memoir, "The Savage Way, Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business and Life", Frank Savage writes about a love of the continent that began before he went there for the… Read more »
December 05, 2012
Africa: U.S. Africanists Worry Over Obama's Next Secretary of State
As President Barack Obama decides whom to nominate to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state during his second term, Africa specialists in the United States are beginning to… Read more »
November 19, 2012
Mali: No Quick Fixes for a Complex Crisis
The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has agreed on a revised concept of operations for the deployment of an international military force of 3,300 soldiers to help… Read more »
November 14, 2012
Africa: New Plan to Fill Training Gap for Medical Workers
A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical workers. The doctors and nurses will… Read more »
November 13, 2012
East Africa: U.S. to Send Medics to Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda
A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical… Read more »
November 12, 2012
Africa: Kent Campbell Honored for Innovation in Malaria Fight
The way Dr. Carlos (Kent) Campbell sees it, the world is on the brink of something great in the battle against malaria – a fight that Campbell has been waging for nearly… Read more »
October 22, 2012
Rwanda: Govt Wants African Solutions, Not Tribal Alliances, Says Foreign Minister
The verified Twitter account of the Rwandan president, @PaulKagame, suddenly came to life on October 10 after a five-month silence. The 15 late-night posts were a mixture of… Read more »
October 19, 2012
Africa: U.S. Presidential Candidates Should Address Continent on the Move
During the U.S. presidential debate on foreign policy Monday, Africa - except for Libya - is unlikely to be a topic. But American aid and investment in sub-Saharan Africa should be… Read more »
October 17, 2012
Africa: Calls for Obama, Romney to Debate Africa
American lobby groups advocating stronger United States government action to bring peace to Central and East Africa are calling on candidates in the U.S. presidential elections to… Read more »
October 01, 2012
Mali: Restore Democracy Then Liberate the North - U.S. Official Johnnie Carson
The top United States diplomat for Africa has acknowledged that military action will be needed to break the control of northern Mali by Islamic extremists and re-unite the country,… Read more »
September 10, 2012
Africa: Europe Should Emulate U.S. to Fight Corruption
It is not often that we see political leadership act courageously to uphold principles of good corporate governance, which makes a recent decision taken in the United States - one… Read more »
July 30, 2012
Rwanda: Europe Suspends Aid to Kagame Govt
A growing number of European governments is joining an international diplomatic drive to press President Paul Kagame's government into ending support for rebels in the eastern… Read more »
July 23, 2012
Africa: U.S. Commits to Greater Support for HIV-Positive Pregnant Women
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Monday that the administration of Barack Obama is committed to "an Aids-free generation" and will spend an additional U.S.$80… Read more »