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 »

Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana

Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »

Nigeria: PAHF Opens New Syringe Factory in Port Harcourt

Every year, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria cause more than five million deaths and cost the African continent hundreds of millions of dollars. With levels of public health spending… Read more »

Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence

Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 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 »

Nigeria: Author Explores Faith and Country in Acclaimed New Novel

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, has received much critical acclaim, having been short listed for the Orange Prize and long listed for the… Read more »

Liberia: A 'Dirty Dozen' List of Preconditions for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment - by Richard Tolbert

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Nigeria: Coordinating Body Develops Nigeria's Response to HIV/Aids

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has created a body to coordinate the national response to HIV/Aids. Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, who serves as chairman of the National… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Nigeria: General Babangida Should Be Nigeria's Next President, Ex-Minister Says

Nigerians take politics seriously. The fact that the country has been ruled by military regimes for 29 of its 41 years of independence has not dampened political fervor. Since… Read more »

Liberia: Response to Review of "U.S. Policy Toward Liberia, 1822 to 2003"

As the author of "U.S. Policy Toward Liberia, 1822 to 2003" (Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers), I am saddened and disappointed that Dr. D. Elwood Dunn, in his review of my book… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Seek G8 Follow-Through

Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda and Algeria Presidents Meet G8 Today Read more »

South Africa: Youth Report on Aids Interventions

As part of the Global Health Council's Annual Conference, held June 1-4 in Washington, DC, public health experts and practitioners exchanged findings on youth perspectives on AIDS… Read more »

Africa: Spotlight on Secondary Education in Africa

"Secondary Education in Africa: Lifeline to the Future" is the theme of the second conference with a sharp focus on secondary education in Africa (SEIA) currently being held in… Read more »

Liberia: An Uneven Examination of U.S. Policy Toward Liberia

Lester S. Hyman, United States Policy Toward Liberia 1822 To 2003: Unintended Consequences?. Cherry Hill, Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003, 281 pp + Bibliography, Index,… Read more »

Africa: Rome Concert Launches a Movement, Says Quincy Jones

If the days of concerts for a cause having an impact are over, producer Quincy Jones hasn't noticed. "You know, it's not really a concert," he told a reporter for Metro… Read more »

Africa: Eight African Nations Eligible For Millennium Challenge Account Assistance

The Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) voted Thursday to make 16 countries "eligible" for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) assistance this year. The… Read more »

Nigeria: Buhari - Freely Elected Government Can Transform Nigeria

Nigeria's problems with economic disparity, underdevelopment and corruption can only be addressed when the country has a fairly elected government, says Major General Muhammadu… Read more »