October 03, 2007
Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Acts on Human Rights
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill supporting human rights and democracy in Ethiopia. Read more »
October 02, 2007
Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement
Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »
Sudan: Elders Visit Darfur For First Mission
A group of world-renowned humanitarians is visiting Sudan to address the “immense human suffering” in the Darfur’s ongoing crisis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the… Read more »
October 01, 2007
Senegal: President Wade Wants 'More Fair' Trade
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a "level field" for free trade with Africa that would eliminate "unfair" agricultural subsidies and encourage… Read more »
September 28, 2007
Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua
Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »
September 27, 2007
Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica
AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »
September 25, 2007
Africa: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S Congress
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were the two key government institutions in Washington… Read more »
September 24, 2007
Africa: From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again
In this essay, written for the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the publisher Walter Bgoya tells of his years… Read more »
September 21, 2007
Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official
The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »
Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa
In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts
The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »
September 18, 2007
Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Backs SADC Talks
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative to promote a negotiated political solution in Zimbabwe offers the only realistic way out of the current crisis, and the… Read more »
September 20, 2007
Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations
In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »
September 19, 2007
Africa: Why Worry about Africa?
The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »
September 13, 2007
Liberia: Bush Extends Stay for Liberians in U.S.
Thousands of Liberians facing deportation from the United States were granted an 18-month extension by a presidential order published by the White House on Wednesday. Read more »
September 06, 2007
Somalia: Crisis Among World's Worst, Says Rights Expert
The scale of human rights abuses and the displacement of people in Somalia has made it among the world's worst situations of its kind, a rights expert has told a meeting in… Read more »
September 05, 2007
Zimbabwe: U.S. Food Company Sold to Govt After 15-Month Review
The leading American food manufacturer, H.J. Heinz Company, says its sale to the Zimbabwe government of a local subsidiary is in the best interests of both Heinz and its Zimbabwean… Read more »
August 31, 2007
Sudan: Can Europe and China 'Save' Darfur?
After all the U.S. government's rhetoric about Darfur's genocide, and all its finger-wagging over the inaction of other nations, it is an instructive irony that the forces… Read more »
August 20, 2007
Africa: Care To Quit U.S. Food Aid Program
The aid organization, Care, is withdrawing from U.S. food assistance programs because of inefficiency and the harm the programs do to local efforts to achieve food sufficiency. Read more »
August 16, 2007
South Africa: Central Bank Again Hikes Interest Rates
South Africa's central bank has again increased interest rates in its fight against inflation. Read more »
August 14, 2007
Mozambique: President Promotes Private Enterprise, Investment
On a continent often described by its problems, many countries, including my own, would rather be defined by the solutions they adopt and the decisions they are implementing. Read more »
July 30, 2007
Liberia: Goodwill May Yield Tangible Dividends for Old Ally
Thanks to widespread support for Liberia's fledgling post-conflict democracy in the U.S. Congress and within the Bush administration, several thousand Liberians living in the… Read more »
July 21, 2007
Africa: Care Seeks Votes from the Public for Its 'Water for the Poor' Project
A name that many people associate with disaster relief has become a large humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. Now, its ambitious initiative to help communities… Read more »
July 20, 2007
Ethiopia: 38 Political Prisoners Released
The Ethiopian government released 38 members of the opposition from jail on Friday. Read more »
July 18, 2007
Africa: U.S. Agoa Forum Meets in Accra
The sixth United States African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) Forum meets Wednesday and Thursday in Accra. Read more »