October 02, 2005
Liberia: Last-Minute Problems Facing Elections in Liberia
Less than two weeks before Liberians go to the polls to elect a new president and a new legislature, a Supreme Court ruling has cast a shadow over a process that has so far been… Read more »
September 26, 2005
Guinea: Global Alumina Agrees with UNDP to Advance Millennium Goals in Guinea
In the first agreement of its kind in the Republic of Guinea, a public/private partnership pact has been signed between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global… Read more »
September 19, 2005
Liberia: Candidates Debate As Liberian Campaign Enters Last Weeks
After a lull in activity following an energetic start last month, Liberia's election campaign took on new energy last week with a debate in which 11 presidential candidates… Read more »
September 01, 2005
Cameroon: Accusations Against Cameroon's U.S. Ambassador Refuted
An article from the The Post, published in Buea, Cameroon, one of the African newspapers that has a distribution agreement with AllAfrica, accused Cameroon's ambassador to the… Read more »
August 29, 2005
Liberia: Campaigning Begins in Liberia, As Weah Attempts to Turn Fans into Voters
Two years after the end of more than a decade of conflict in Liberia, the country's first openly contested election campaign has begun. The race for president includes 22… Read more »
August 10, 2005
Liberia: 'We Need a Leader with Experience to Create a New Liberia', Says Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Two years after the end of more than a decade of civil war, Liberia is preparing for a vigorously contested election. Campaigning begins officially August 15, and Liberians will go… Read more »
August 09, 2005
Africa: An All Too Familiar Story
The recent coup that ousted Mauritanian despot Maaouya Ould Taya has elicited the usual hue and cry: condemnations from the international community and calls for the soldiers to… Read more »
August 01, 2005
Africa: Femi Kuti - the Man Behind the Music
Agile, humorous and a bit out of this world, Femi Kuti is a wonder to behold on stage. If you are not arrested by his sporadic dancing or intense multi-instrument playing, his… Read more »
July 29, 2005
Nigeria: Biafra War Echoes in Claims for Resource Control, Independence
The Biafra War seems to be part of Nigeria's distant past, but the fear of violence and the idea of partition are still present among citizens of Africa's most populous nation.… Read more »
July 13, 2005
Africa: At Least 9 Africans Missing, 8 Injured in London Attacks
Updated: July 14, 2005 9:34 AM Read more »
July 11, 2005
Nigeria: HIV/Aids in Nigeria: Can We Beat It?
C. Payne Lucas, president-emeritus of Africare, currently serves as senior advisor to AllAfrica Global Media and the AllAfrica Foundation. The article is the prepared text of an… Read more »
June 24, 2005
Nigeria: JAAIDS Leads Fight Against Aids Through the Media
Nigeria is one of five "next wave'" countries identified by global health experts as likely to experience a crisis from rising rates of HIV infection. A U.S. national intelligence… Read more »
June 21, 2005
Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results
Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »
June 12, 2005
Africa: G8 Debt Agreement to Benefit 23 African Countries; Separate Deal for Nigeria Mooted
The agreement on 100% debt relief for developing countries announced by finance ministers from the eight largest industrial nations on Saturday initially benefits 14 nations in… Read more »
June 08, 2005
Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora
In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »
May 20, 2005
Senegal: Africa Must Have Veto on UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Says
The African continent is entitled to at least one veto-wielding member at the United Nations Security Council, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Senegal's minister of foreign affairs, said… 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
Ghana: Erosion of Rights Has Divided Ghana and Must Be Reversed
Reflections on the Work of the National Reconciliation Commission 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 »
February 11, 2005
South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of Côte d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »
January 26, 2005
West Africa: Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. John M. Chernoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 496 pp. $65.00, cloth. $22.50 paper. Read more »
December 13, 2004
Nigeria/Tunisia: Enyimba Wins CAF Premiership Second Year Running
Some 40,000 Nigerian football fans gathered in Abuja's National Stadium Sunday were given an early Christmas present as Enyimba of Aba State won the Confederation of African… Read more »