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 »
May 26, 2005
Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha
Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »
April 15, 2005
Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book
Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »
September 25, 2004
Zambia: Zambia Seeks to Turn Prospects to Economic Boom on 40th Anniversary - President Mwanawasa
Remarks by His Excellency Mr. Levy P. Mwanawasa, Sc., President Of The Republic Of Zambia At The Friends Of Zambia Reception at The Metropolitan Club, Washington D.C. Read more »
August 02, 2004
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 »
July 07, 2004
Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis
James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »
July 10, 2002
Zambia: 'Protect Young Girls from Forced Sex With HIV-Positive Men'
As the international Aids conference continues in Barcelona, Janet Fleischman of Human Rights Watch contributes this personal view on the special and urgent need to protect young… Read more »
July 10, 2001
Libya: Al-Gaddafi Preaches To Zambian Students
A crowd of pro-Libya students assembled at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, where the 37th summit of the OAU is being held and waited patiently on one of… Read more »
Africa: Libyan Leader Wows Students In Lusaka
A crazy convoy raced through the streets of Lusaka on Tuesday, hunting for The Guide of the Revolution, the name that has become synonymous with the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar… Read more »
July 09, 2001
Africa: OAU Summit Hears Warnings of 'Oblivion' if Conflicts Continue
The 37th annual summit of the Organisation of African Unity, which is likely to be the last, has opened in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, with delegates focused on the creation of a… Read more »
June 21, 2001
Southern Africa: Spectacular View in a Cloudless Sky
"There hasn't been a single cloud in the sky all day," said Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in the United States and leader of an international team of scientists who… Read more »
June 19, 2001
Africa: Eclipse Diary 3
AllAfrica has been following preparations for scientific observation of the June 21, 2001 solar eclipse by a team of astrophysicists from Williams College in the United States.… Read more »
Africa: AllAfrica Interview: Preparing for the Eclipse
Tourists, journalists and scientists have been arriving in southern Africa to view the total solar eclipse on June 21, 2001. Dr. Jay Pasachoff, an expert on the solar corona, is… Read more »
June 11, 2001
Zambia: Holding Power Too Long Corrupts, Says Opposition Leader
When the oppositon United Party for National Development (UPND) ran an ad using a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) soundbite of President Chiluba promising to honor… Read more »