Ghana: Cocoa Farmers Get a Sweeter Deal With U.S. Chocolate Launch

Divine Chocolate, a fair-trade enterprise partially owned by cocoa farmers in Ghana, launched a new company in the United States on a snowy Valentine’s Day. Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Announces News Center and Health Office in Monrovia

AllAfrica today announced plans to open an online international news processing center in Monrovia. The office will also be used by the AllAfrica Foundation as a hub for… Read more »

Africa: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. officially unveils the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection this month.  The collection features… Read more »

Guinea: Conté Declares 'State of Siege'

President Lansana Conte of Guinea has declared a "state of siege" and instituted martial law after bloody nationwide demonstrations in which 23 people are reported to… Read more »

Liberia: Shorten Road Between Commitment and Cash, Sirleaf Says

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday called for debt cancellation and increased development assistance for the country. Read more »

Liberia: Private Sector Forum Sells Out As Sirleaf Arrives in Washington Seeking Debt Relief

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is making a return visit to Washington this week with an urgent agenda. To deliver the jobs and services she sees as essential to building… Read more »

Guinea: Insurrection As Strike Resumes

On the evening of January 27, when the government and the unions signed an agreement suspending a bloody general strike, Guineans took to the streets of Conakry, the capital city… Read more »

Guinea: Government and Unions Sign Agreement, General Unlimited Strike Suspended

Under clear skies and a radiant full moon on Saturday night, Guineans took to the streets of Conakry, the capital city of this west African country lying on the Atlantic shoreline,… Read more »

Guinea: President Appears to Yield, Agrees to New Prime Minister

News reports confirmed by presidential sources indicate that President Lansana Conté of Guinea has signed an executive order establishing the nomination of a "consensus… Read more »

Guinea: Army, President Need to be Warned Against Both Status Quo and Coup

In Conakry, the Guinean capital lying on the Atlantic shoreline, it is the season of the Harmattan, when the rains have given way to the dry dust-laden wind of that name, which… Read more »

Guinea: A National Unity Government to Save the Nation

On December 16th, President Lansana Conté's entourage made its way towards the central prison of Conakry. The Guinean head of state attended in person to obtain the release… Read more »

Nigeria: Media Coverage Critical for Emerging Business Climate

The media has only just begun to play a significant role in the development of the Nigerian economy, or rather in the expansion of the business environment. For many years,… Read more »

Guinea: Country Finds Hope in Alumina Refinery

In the dry season, a pervasive red dust wafts from the crushers at the bauxite operations that have dominated economic activity for over three decades in Guinea – home to a… Read more »

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 »

Liberia: A Conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

At a breakfast fundraiser in Washington DC for the Liberian Education Trust, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discussed the nation's prospects for development and peace with… Read more »

Liberia: President Calls for Faster Aid Flows: Speech at Georgetown University

The following is the text of a speech given by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at Georgetown University. Read more »

Liberia: Liberian Education Trust Aims to Get Children Back to School

Fourteen years of war destroyed most of Liberia's schools and forced tens of thousands of children to become soldiers or sex slaves – or, in the case of many girls, both.… Read more »

Cape Verde: Well-Governed African Nations Merit Attention, Says Prime Minister

"In African countries at-large there is not close attention being given to countries that have good government," Cape Verde Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves said Thursday… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Women and Collective Action in Africa

Women and Collective Action in Africa Read more »

Ghana: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania

Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania Read more »

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 »

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 »