December 08, 2006
Africa: Senator Brownback and Representative Lee Say Continent Deserves More Focus
Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Democratic Representative Barbara Lee from California were honored by the Africa Society of Washington, D.C. on Thursday for their… Read more »
December 06, 2006
Africa: Adjustment Problems of African Students at Public Universities in America
The basis and rationale for this book is great. It is mean to be a tool for African students wishing to study in the United States. The book begins with steps to take after one… Read more »
December 04, 2006
Chad: Bringing Chad Back from the Brink - A Humanitarian Imperative that Serves U.S. National Interests
With all eyes on the horrifying genocide in Darfur, we must not ignore the growing instability next door in neighboring Chad, where the government is on the brink of complete… Read more »
November 14, 2006
Sudan: U.S. Congressmen Urge State Governors to Divest
U.S. Congressional Representatives Frank Wolf (Republican), Donald Payne (Democrat), and Jim Moran (Democrat) today called for states to divest public funds from companies doing… Read more »
October 26, 2006
Africa: Leadership Prize for Liberian President Is a Challenge to End Hunger
When she walked up the podium on Saturday evening, October 21, 2006 to receive the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of… Read more »
October 18, 2006
Africa: Speech of William Jefferson Clinton Accepting the 2006 Africare Humanitarian Award
The following is a transcript of William Jefferson Clinton's Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Africare Humanitarian Award. Read more »
October 19, 2006
Africa: Calls for African Empowerment as Clinton Accepts Africare Award
Former U.S. president William J. Clinton on Wednesday night joined Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Colin L. Powell, and Graca Machel as recent recipients of the 2006 Africare Bishop… Read more »
October 16, 2006
Uganda: The Last King of Scotland
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October 11, 2006
Africa: Violence Against Women Inherently Linked to HIV, Advocate Says
In August, the Global Aids Alliance released a report, Zero Tolerance, that outlines the impact of violence against women and girls on the fight against HIV/Aids. AllAfrica's… Read more »
October 06, 2006
Africa: 'New News' from Africa - Looking Beyond Death, Disease, Disaster and Despair
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the best-known and most award-winning journalists in the United States, has focused her recent career on covering Africa. After nearly two decades as… Read more »
October 04, 2006
Cape Verde: Is Good Governance Rewarded?
At Independence in 1975, Cape Verde was one of the world's poorest countries whose index of economic vulnerability was one of the highest in the world. Yet today, many outsiders… Read more »
October 03, 2006
Sudan: We Saved Europeans. Why Not Africans?
With Darfur set to be hit by a second wave of genocide, world leaders are shifting into diplomatic high gear. The government of Sudan flatly rejects deployment of a 22,000-strong… Read more »
September 27, 2006
Africa: 'Heritage Trail' to Link African, Caribbean, U.S. Tourist Effort
Hundreds of participants are expected at a 5-day 'African Diaspora Heritage Trail' (ADHT) conference opening today in Hamilton, Bermuda. Read more »
Africa: International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier
International Migration has become a hot issue, especially among Africans in the wake of the problems West Africans have been having in the Canary Islands and Spain. A new book… Read more »
September 22, 2006
Liberia: President Johnson Sirleaf Honored with Freedom Award
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was honored Thursday night in Washington with the 2006 Freedom Award, a distinction she shared with U.S. First Lady Laura Bush. Read more »
September 15, 2006
Ghana: Kufuor Says Millennium Challenge Compact Provides Boost to Country's Economic Progress
The following is a transcription of the press briefing by Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor on August 4, 2006 at the Wyndham Hotel, Washington, DC. At the briefing, which was… Read more »
August 29, 2006
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 »
August 23, 2006
Sudan: To Halt the Atrocities, Follow the Money
Hard though it is to believe, the horrific humanitarian situation in Darfur is getting worse. There are more clashes now than a year ago, the number of rapes has steadily climbed… Read more »
July 25, 2006
Africa: Africa Society President and CEO Leonard Robinson Dies
Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., president and CEO of the Africa Society, a leading Washington D.C.-based advocacy group, died early Tuesday at Washington Hospital Center following a… Read more »
July 19, 2006
Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »
July 17, 2006
Africa: African/African American Summit Attracts High-Level Delegations to Abuja
The chartered North American Airlines plane that delivered American delegates to Abuja, Nigeria on Sunday to attend the 7th Leon H. Sullivan Summit evoked the meeting's theme of… Read more »
July 13, 2006
Sudan: A Dying Deal in Darfur
In this eerily depopulated area of war-ravaged Darfur, a woman named Ayesha explained to me why she and a handful of others refused to become refugees. "We fear another… Read more »
June 17, 2006
Africa: New Soros Book Targets Global Warming, War on Terror
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros Read more »
June 12, 2006
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 »
June 07, 2006
Sudan: Divide and Destroy in Darfur
Negotiating the end of a war is tricky enough. But in the case of Darfur, mediators were also faced with the implicit task of ending what the Bush administration calls… Read more »