June 03, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Presses G8 to Fund Africa Action Plan
With African issues high on the agenda of the summit of the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations next month, President Thabo Mbeki of South African appealed to… Read more »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
May 17, 2005
Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'
As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »
May 10, 2005
Africa: Powell Defends Obasanjo on Taylor and Calls for Greater Support for Africa
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be asked "to be unfaithful to the commitment he made" to provide asylum to former… Read more »
May 06, 2005
Nigeria: Debt Relief Critical to Development and Democracy, Senators Say
In a first for the Nigerian National Assembly, a delegation of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and officials from the Debt Management Office traveled to… Read more »
April 28, 2005
Liberia: U.S. Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor
The United States government is taking steps to increase pressure on high-level individuals who are suspected of fueling conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the last… Read more »
April 21, 2005
Africa: Jendayi Frazer Tapped for State Department Africa Post
The top Africa policymaker in the U.S. Department of State, Constance Berry Newman, has submitted her resignation, according to several government sources who asked not to be… Read more »
April 20, 2005
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Tapped by Time
Canada's former United Nations ambassador, Stephen Lewis, who serves as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, has been named by Time magazine in… Read more »
April 11, 2005
Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator
After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »
April 06, 2005
Africa: African Authors to Speak at New York Literature Festival
The first-ever New York Festival of International Literature features writers from more than 45 countries, including African authors Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,… Read more »
March 31, 2005
Madagascar: Madagascar Made 'Extraordinary' Effort To Become First Millennium Account Recipient - Applegarth
The Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors announced mid-March that Madagascar will receive the first funding from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid… Read more »
February 25, 2005
Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been
Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »
Nigeria: 'Richer' Relationship the Result of Nigeria's Democratic Transformation, Despite Flaws, Says U.S. Ambassador
For the past nine months, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria has been John Campbell, a career foreign service officer who was serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of… Read more »
January 31, 2005
Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise
"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »
Ethiopia: We're Making Progress on Democracy and Aids, Says Ethiopia's Meles [2005]
Dialogue with Eritrea Essential for Peace Read more »
December 03, 2004
Africa: Morocco Added to Eligibility List for Millennium Challenge Account
Morocco is the only country added to the eligibility list for the 2005 Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), U.S. officials said in November. Cape Verde is not eligible for 2005… Read more »
November 10, 2004
Africa: New Book on Aids Pandemic Paints a Troubling Picture
The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global Aids Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. Greg Behrman. Free Press, 2004. 368 pp. $17.50… Read more »
Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption
Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »
October 08, 2004
Libya: U.S. Non-Oil Businesses Eye Return to Libya
U.S. corporations are positioning for a return to Libya, where they have been banned from doing business since the late 1980s. Read more »
October 01, 2004
Liberia: A 'Dirty Dozen' List of Preconditions for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment
Based on my own experience and the experiences of many other international businessmen who have done business in Developing Countries, there are a number of factors that have been… Read more »
September 25, 2004
Zambia: Zambia Seeks to Turn Prospects to Economic Boom on 40th Anniversary - President Mwanawasa
Remarks by His Excellency Mr. Levy P. Mwanawasa, Sc., President Of The Republic Of Zambia At The Friends Of Zambia Reception at The Metropolitan Club, Washington D.C. Read more »
September 24, 2004
Liberia: Transparency A Necessity, Not an Option for Liberia, Says Top Government Advisor
The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Harry A. Greaves, Jr., Economic Advisor To The Chairman Of The National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H.… Read more »
September 21, 2004
Liberia: U.S. Government Supports Recovery and Transparency in Liberia with 'Zero Tolerance' for Corruption
The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »
Liberia: Private Sector Holds the Key to Liberia's Recovery, Bryant Says
The text (as prepared for delivery) of the keynote address by H.E. Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman, National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »
September 17, 2004
Liberia: Ambassador Sees Agriculture as Key to Liberia's Recovery
Nearly a year after the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) was inaugurated last October, the country's interim leader Gyude Bryant is scheduled to arrive in the… Read more »