September 12, 2004
Sudan: Neutral Force and New Government Needed to Pacify Darfur, Says Sudan Rebel Leader John Garang
To stop the killing in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, a neutral force of 30,000 soldiers is urgently needed, the leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement… Read more »
September 09, 2004
Sudan: Powell Declares Darfur Crisis Is Genocide
Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is a genocide. This was his first… Read more »
August 25, 2004
Africa: African Capacity Building is Essential to Undermining Terrorist Financial Networks Say U.S. Reps
In line with the ongoing investigations into the financial networks of terror, Juan Zarate, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and William Fox Director of the Financial… Read more »
August 23, 2004
Sudan: Embassy in Washington Closes Doors `Until Further Notice'
Sudan's U.S. embassy in Washington, D.C. closed Monday, according to its official Web site and a notice posted outside the embassy's door. Read more »
Africa: Remembrance: J. Wayne Fredericks
J. Wayne Fredericks, who, in both official and unofficial roles, was a pioneering advocate of a closer and better-informed relationship between the United States and Africa, died… Read more »
August 13, 2004
Africa: Attention for Africa Not Easy In an Election Year - Donald Payne
The following exchange with Rep. Donald M. Payne (Democrat - New Jersey) is one of an ongoing series of conversations about Africa policy in the next U.S. presidential… Read more »
August 06, 2004
Africa: A Kerry Presidency Can Restore Rapport With Africa, Rangel Says
Although little discussed in the current election campaign, the next president of the United States will have to confront a number of critical issues in Africa. In an ongoing… Read more »
August 05, 2004
West Africa: Debate Over al Qaeda's Connection to West Africa's Diamond Trade Takes New Turns
The arrest of a Tanzanian fugitive in Pakistan last week, release of the 9-11 Commission report in Washington and a forthcoming finding by a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone… Read more »
August 04, 2004
Sudan: To Save Lives in Darfur, Back African Peacekeepers and Demand War Crimes Accountability, Says ICG's Prendergast
Nearly four months after President Bush called the situation in Darfur the "worst humanitarian crisis of our time," the international community has responded with resolutions from… Read more »
July 30, 2004
Liberia: Refugees `Wasting' in U.S. While Wanting to Work
Torli H. Krua, founder and president of Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), came from Liberia shortly after the war started and is an active advocate for African refugees. Read more »
July 29, 2004
Mozambique: `Women Have Society in Their Hands'
Ana Rita Geremias Sithole is visiting the United States on a three-week study tour with eight other female African leaders as a part of the U.S. State Department's International… Read more »
Sudan: Crisis in Darfur Does Not Require Military Intervention, Says U.S. Official
The United States is waiting for Sudan to act responsibly in the Darfur crisis and is not planning a military intervention, said Charles Snyder, principal deputy assistant… Read more »
July 28, 2004
South Africa: Ten Years Later, Shared Interest Continues Anti-Poverty Mission
Shared Interest, an organization that guarantees loans for thousands of black South Africans, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. In an interview with AllAfrica's Maria… Read more »
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Issues First Ever 'Genocide Emergency'
The Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a "genocide emergency" yesterday, red-flagging the continuing violence in Darfur, Sudan. This is… Read more »
July 23, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Grave Humanitarian Crisis Worsening In Eastern Congo, Where 3.5m Have Already Perished
Violence continues in eastern Congo, where rebel groups have clashed with United Nations peacekeepers and government forces, in violation of the peace accords signed in 2003, Rep.… Read more »
Liberia: ESPN Honors Liberian Soccer Star George Weah
Retired Liberian soccer star George Weah was honored this month at the 12th annual ESPY awards organized by the U.S. sports television network ESPN. Weah received the Arthur Ashe… Read more »
Sudan: 'Call Darfur a Genocide' Say Coalition Protestors
Hundreds of protestors rallied Thursday in front of the White House, calling on the United States and the UN Security Council to officially call the crisis in Darfur, western… Read more »
July 21, 2004
South Africa: Clegg Returns to U.S. for Major Tour
Johnny Clegg is a singer/songwriter who grew up in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia and is best known for his work with Sipho Mchunu as part of the band Juluka. His later work… Read more »
July 20, 2004
Africa: U.S. Must `Walk the Walk' in Africa
Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Chair in Strategic Studies and serves as an Associate in the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Crocker's… Read more »
Africa: Conservation Should Be Major U.S.-Africa Policy Issue, Report Says
Nicholas P. Lapham, Vice President for Policy at Conservation International, joined other experts in making recommendations for U.S.-Africa policy in a Center for Strategic and… Read more »
July 14, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Lawmaker and Church Leader Arrested to Highlight Darfur Deaths
The campaign to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan has gotten a publicity boost this week from the arrests at the Sudan Embassy in Washington, DC. of U.S.… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Africa: `Spend More Money and Put More People in Africa'
Paying more attention to Africa will help both Africa and the United States, according to Robert Rotberg, a foreign policy scholar who has written extensively about the continent.… Read more »
Sudan: Panelists Urge the World to Act on Darfur, Sudan Official Denies Government Involvement
The international community has a responsibility to act immediately to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)… Read more »
July 08, 2004
Sudan: Act Now to Stop Dying on a Massive Scale in Darfur, U.S. Lawmakers Urge
A growing chorus of voices in the U.S. Congress is appealing for urgent action to halt the ongoing killings in the Darfur region of Sudan. Two Republican U.S. lawmakers who visited… Read more »
June 24, 2004
Sudan: 'Call the Atrocities In Darfur By Their Rightful Name'
President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell were urged Wednesday by a coalition of members of the U.S. Congress and civil society to declare the humanitarian crisis… Read more »