Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery

For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »

Liberia: Campaigning in Liberia's Run-Off Presidential Race Is Underway

Campaigning for the run-off election in Liberia on November 8 for the presidency has begun at a lower volume than the first round, when hundreds of thousands of supporters of the… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia?s presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: As First Round Results Remain Stagnant, Liberian Elections Commission Chairman Receives Death Threats

With the counting of votes nearing completion in Liberia's presidential and legislative elections last week, the chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Frances… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Look Towards Runoff As Vote Counts Nears Completion

With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted in Liberia's presidential election, it appears that no single candidate will receive more than half the votes needed to win an… Read more »

Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger

As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »

Liberia: All Quiet in Monrovia As People Nervously Await Elections Results

In the words of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Liberia, Mr. Alan Doss, "it was a great day for Liberia." After six weeks of a mostly civil… Read more »

Liberia: Peaceful Campaign Ends in Liberia

For a country that has just emerged out of one of the deadliest civil wars in Africa's modern history, Liberia has managed to conduct a surprisingly peaceful campaign leading to… Read more »

Liberia: High Stakes for the Region as Liberians Prepare to Vote

Liberia faces a 'make-or-break' situation as voters go to the polls next week, officials and Africa-watchers in the United States agree. The election is a central facet of the… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: At Least 9 Africans Missing, 8 Injured in London Attacks

Updated: July 14, 2005 9:34 AM Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »