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 »

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 »

Eswatini: Women Care for Families Struck by HIV Through Handcraft Trade

Women in Swaziland's rural areas, hard-hit by HIV/Aids, are responding to the family crisis through a private business that supplies 500 different outlets throughout the world with… Read more »

Liberia: It's the Little Things - A Reflection on Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Journey to the Presidency

It's the night after Liberia's historic inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected president of an African nation. About a dozen close friends and… Read more »

Africa: Women Are Africa's Political Hope

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress today. This historic honor, bestowed sparingly on international dignitaries, is a fitting… Read more »

Guinea: Bauxite Investment Spurs West African Hopes

In one of the world's 10 poorest countries, where life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years, where 75 per cent of the women are illiterate, and where almost everyone is unemployed,… Read more »

Africa: New Book Exposes New and Old Attitudes Towards Gender in Africa

Readings in Gender in Africa Read more »

Africa: Aid Should be Tied to Needs, Goals, Says U.S. Official

However distracted by Thursday's bombings in London, the G8 meetings in Gleneagles, Scotland continued with consideration of global climate change and a working lunch that South… Read more »

Africa: G8 Should Focus on HIV, Women's Empowerment

When the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations meet next month in Scotland, they will debate how to address the HIV/Aids crisis and whether to significantly increase… Read more »

Mozambique: Country Pursuing Investment for Development, President Says

Armando Guebuza, who won the presidency of Mozambique in December 2004 elections, is one of the African leaders attending the Corporate Council on Africa's Business Summit in… Read more »

Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister

In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »

Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise

"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »

South Africa: Novel Explores Women's Experiences in Prison

Journey to Myself: Writings by Women from Prison in South Africa. Edited by Julia Landau. Rondebosch, South Africa: Footprints, 2004. 80 pp. Read more »

Africa: World Aids Day 2004 Addresses Plight of Women and Girls

If HIV/Aids is to be defeated, the world needs to work together to make a difference in the lives of those who have been infected and affected, especially women, Lapologang Lekoa,… Read more »

Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries

Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »

Botswana: Reaching Out With Anti-Aids Strategies for Women and Girls

Presentation by H.H. Mr. L.C. Lekoa, Botswana's Ambassador to the United States, for World Aids Day at "Reaching Women and Girls," a conference co-hosted by CSIS Task Force and the… 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: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »

Zambia: Steps Forward for Women's Economic and Political Empowerment

Mary Silavwe Mulenga is taking part in the International Visitor Regional Project for Africa through the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Program. She is traveling… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building

In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »

Sudan: Unicef Takes Out Loans to Bring Aid to Darfur: Less Than 'One Piece of Plastic Per Family'

Julianna Lindsey is a program officer for the United Nations Children's Fund's Humanitarian Response Unit. She traveled through Sudan for five weeks coordinating Unicef support for… Read more »

Africa: State Dept Releases Human Trafficking Report

"We can't fully embrace our dignity unless we champion the dignity of others," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said during the release of the U.S. State Department's annual… Read more »