December 17, 2007
Mali: Mothers Form Long Lines For Children's Health
The latest instalment in the reflections of Dr. Steven Phillips, ExxonMobil's Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects, on the huge campaign to reach millions of children… Read more »
South Africa: Two ANCs Emerge Amid Unprecedented Tensions
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who reports on the ANC conference principally for National Public Radio in the United States, continues her personal reflections on the process. Read more »
December 14, 2007
Africa: Leaders Divided on Rights, Says Amnesty Chief
A group of international figures gathered in Cape Town this week to launch a new global campaign for human rights. One of them was Irene Khan, who as secretary-general of Amnesty… Read more »
December 12, 2007
Nigeria: Yar'Adua Visit to U.S. Launches New Era
Nigeria, apart from being the fifth-largest source of American oil imports, is a key partner of the United States in containing a range of emerging transnational threats, writes… Read more »
December 04, 2007
Zimbabwe: U.S. Tightens Sanctions Screw
The United States is to bar the children of some Zimbabwean officials from studying in the United States. Read more »
December 03, 2007
Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Heading to Ethiopia
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting of leaders from the Great Lakes Region on Wednesday, December 5 in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, the State… Read more »
November 21, 2007
West Africa: New Film Looks at West Africans in America
Informative, interesting, and humorous are three adjectives that can be used to describe this documentary. Taking place in the concrete jungle of New York, this documentary… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Hip Hop Artist Boobah Siddik Mixes Politics and Rhythm
Ivorian hip hop artist Boobah Siddik has been active in the hip hop community since he left West Africa in 1997 and headed for the U.S. For the past five years he has been… Read more »
November 16, 2007
Africa: Why China Beats Its Competitors
Low costs give Chinese investors in Africa a competitive advantage over their counterparts from other countries, a Chinese analyst told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Cape… Read more »
November 08, 2007
Africa: 'Recognize Our Heroes and Sheroes' - Zambian Ambassador Mbikusita-Lewanika
The Zambian ambassador to the United States, Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, 64, has had a wide-ranging and high-powered career. She studied at California Polytechnic University and… Read more »
Sudan: Meet Our Demands, Says Southern President
President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Government of Southern Sudan said in Washington, DC on Wednesday that the south’s boycott of the country’s Government of National… Read more »
November 06, 2007
Africa: TransAfrica Calls for Just Policies Towards Continent
TransAfrica Forum, the oldest and largest African American human rights advocacy organization for the African world in the United States, commemorates its 30th anniversary with a… Read more »
November 05, 2007
Ethiopia: Analysts Warn of New War With Eritrea
There is a growing danger of renewed war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the coming weeks, and both the United Nations and the United States must act quickly to head it off, the… Read more »
October 30, 2007
Uganda: Museveni and Bush Discuss Trade, HIV at Meeting
President George W. Bush on Tuesday welcomed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the White House, where the two heads of state discussed a variety of issues, including trade,… Read more »
October 29, 2007
Liberia: Johnson Sirleaf Tapped for Top U.S. Civilian Award
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been selected by President George W. Bush as one of eight recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S.civilian honor. Read more »
October 28, 2007
Sierra Leone: Women Aim for the Presidency by 2012
Representatives of the Fifty Fifty Group, a women's activism organization in Sierra Leone, have been visiting Washington, DC, to receive an award for their work to increase… Read more »
October 27, 2007
West Africa: U.S. Group Honors Women Leaders
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Fifty Fifty Group, an organization supporting women's political participation in Sierra Leone, have received awards from the… Read more »
October 25, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Preventing Backslide Into War
Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, visits the White House today to discuss challenges to his country's fragile democracy. The last time a… Read more »
October 20, 2007
Liberia: Major U.S. Charity Gives President Top Award
Africare awarded Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the 2007 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award this week. Read more »
October 18, 2007
Liberia: Africare's Julius Coles Pleased To Honor Old Friend
The largest Africa-related fundraiser in the United States each year is the dinner hosted in Washington, D.C. by Africare, the leading American aid and development organization… Read more »
October 11, 2007
Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation
"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »
October 09, 2007
Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election
Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »
October 04, 2007
Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection
Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »
Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building
Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »
October 03, 2007
Ethiopia: Advocate Says Ogaden Crisis Strikingly Similar to Darfur
A human rights advocate has told the United States Congress that the current situation in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia has striking similarities to Darfur in the run-up to… Read more »