June 07, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Using Food as Political Tool, Says U.S.
The American ambassador to Harare has lashed out at the Zimbabwean government, accusing it of using food as a political tool. Read more »
June 05, 2008
Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York
A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »
June 03, 2008
Africa: Yar'Adua Explains Stand on Africom
President Umaru Yar'Adua reiterated in South Africa Tuesday that he had asked the United States to give military assistance to groupings of African nations, but that he had… Read more »
May 28, 2008
Sudan: U.S. Candidates Urge End to Darfur Violence
All three remaining United States presidential candidates have demanded that the "genocide and violence in Darfur be brought to an end" in an advertisement in Wednesday's… Read more »
May 23, 2008
Africa: Food Crisis Threatens Democracy
More than half the nations of the world in which riots have broken out over food prices are in Africa, says Julius E. Coles, president of Africare, a U.S.-based organization which… Read more »
May 14, 2008
Africa: U.S. Senators Block Key HIV/Aids Legislation
A group of United States senators is blocking a bill that would help HIV/Aids patients in Africa and around the world, and could postpone the bill's passage until next year. Read more »
May 13, 2008
South Africa: Apartheid Victims to Sue Multinationals
Victims of apartheid who are suing 23 leading multinational corporations in American courts on the grounds that the companies collaborated with the policy have been given clearance… Read more »
May 08, 2008
South Africa: U.S. Moves to Erase ANC 'Terrorism' Label
The United States House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to erase from government records the designation of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and… Read more »
May 07, 2008
Nigeria: Obama Denies Comment on Delta Militants
The campaign of United States presidential candidate Barack Obama has denied reports that Obama appealed to a militant group to end hostilities in the Niger Delta. Read more »
Africa: Nine New U.S. Ambassadors Nominated
Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation. Read more »
May 05, 2008
Africa: Grannies Help Grannies Cope with Aids
In the last of a three-part series interviews with AllAfrica, Stephen Lewis, formerly special envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, tells… Read more »
April 30, 2008
Zimbabwe: Security Council Splits Over Election Impasse
Deep divisions were apparent on the United Nations Security Council as it discussed the post-election impasse in Zimbabwe for the first time on Tuesday. Western news reports said… Read more »
April 24, 2008
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Won Election, Says U.S.
The top Africa envoy for the United States told reporters in South Africa Thursday that Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was the "clear" victor in last… Read more »
Africa: Activist Praises Europe, Slams U.S. on Aids
Stephen Lewis is a renowned and vigorously outspoken Canadian diplomat who has worked extensively to reduce the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa and to advocate for those living with… Read more »
April 23, 2008
Zimbabwe: U.S. Urges Blocking of Arms Shipment
The United States has urged southern African governments to block a shipment of arms destined for Zimbabwe from being transported overland to the landlocked country. Read more »
April 21, 2008
Kenya: Army Chief Denies Mt Elgon Abuses
The commander of the Kenyan army, Lieutenant General Augostino Njoroge, has dismissed charges of human rights abuses in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya as "imaginary." Read more »
April 09, 2008
Kenya: Franchising Health Instead of French Fries
Scott Hillstrom is founder, chairman and CEO of the HealthStore Foundation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. The foundation aims to improve access to… Read more »
Liberia: U.S Medical Volunteers Share Expertise
Health Education and Relief Through Teaching (HEARTT), a U.S.-based non-profit organization operating in Liberia, aims to educate and otherwise assist local health care providers… Read more »
Africa: Corporate Coalitions Band Together to Fight Aids
One of the aims of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) – an organization representing about 200 American companies investing in Africa – is to help its members… Read more »
Africa: Program Sends Mobile Clinics to Continent
U.S. Doctors for Africa (USDFA), a non-profit humanitarian organization founded 11 years ago, has several ongoing projects on the continent, including sending mobile clinics to… Read more »
Africa: Taking From the Poor, Giving to the Rich
Sub-Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden but only three percent of the world's health workers, according to the World Health Organization. Dorothy Ngoma,… Read more »
April 04, 2008
Zimbabwe: Academic Challenged U.S. 'Pseudo-Democratic' Policies
As a professor of Politics who teaches in the African studies program at the University of San Francisco, a progressive activist, a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement and other… Read more »
March 18, 2008
Africa: UK Envoy Calls for Urgent Citizen Advocacy on Trade
Paul Boateng, the British cabinet minister who left that post to become his country's high commissioner to South Africa, has been visiting the United States with the declared aim… Read more »
March 13, 2008
Cameroon: Protests Against Biya Planned For Washington
Protestors demanding democratic change in Cameroon will gather Friday in Washington, DC to demonstrate against President Paul Biya just weeks after protests rocked the central… Read more »
March 10, 2008
Africa: Americans Shouldn't Give Up on Africa
The news Americans hear about Africa these days is mostly bad – the periodic outbreak of violence, the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, runaway inflation in… Read more »