South Africa: South Africa Modernizes Its Major Stock Exchange

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is modernizing its major securities processing systems in a bid to put Africa's largest stock market on an equal footing with the world's… Read more »

South Africa: Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa's "Attracting Capital to Africa" Summit

Chairperson, Honourable Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen Read more »

Liberia: Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End

Half a decade ago, with the Berlin Wall coming down and the Soviet Union entering its final days, a small-scale conflict in West Africa quietly put post-Cold War U.S. foreign… Read more »

Africa: National Security Review 30: American Policy Toward Africa in the 1990s-Key Findings

The Bush administration has prepared a classified presidential directive that may shape the initial Africa policy of the new Clinton team. Prompted by the crisis in Somalia and a… Read more »

Somalia: Relief, Reconciliation, Reconstruction in Somalia

Views of Prominent Somalis - A Special Reprint from the United States Institute for Peace Read more »

Somalia: Declaration by Somali Political Movements and Traditional Community Leaders

A Statement Issued in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on December 4, 1992 Read more »

East Africa: How the U.S. Can Support Peace and Democracy in the Horn of Africa

An Appeal to the New Clinton Administration from U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations Read more »

Somalia: Dictators and Warlords Are a Modern Invention

As the Marines and the Army of the United States move deeper into Somalia to carry out their first humanitarian campaign, we need to look forward and contemplate the restoration of… Read more »

Somalia: Somalia's Silent Sufferers

The Digil and the Rahanwayn Somali clans comprise roughly 30% to 35% of the Somali population and are two of the six major clan families. These two groups are socio-culturally and… Read more »

Somalia: A Nation of Poets

Americans know Somalia as a land of gaunt children and marauding gunmen. But for centuries, those familiar with the wedge-shaped piece of land jutting into the Indian Ocean have… Read more »

Somalia: Somalia Journal: Gun-toting Taxis and Wartime Luxury

Seeing news programs before arriving in Somalia gives the impression that Mogadishu has become a calm city. But from the point of view of the aid agencies, not as much has changed… Read more »

Somalia: Tangled Ties of the Past Shaped U.S.-Somali Relations

Late last year, as Somalia plunged deeper into violence, human rights and relief organizations raised a cry of alarm in Washington. "We made a concerted effort to get the… Read more »

Somalia: Saving Somalia Without The Somalis

For Somalis committed to peace and reconciliation in their country, the initial phases of "Operation Restore Hope" has had precisely the opposite effect. Read more »

Africa: Africa Coverage Continues to Lag

Only Somalia, with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground, gets attention. Read more »

Africa: If It's Africa, It Must be a Tribe

Imagine how an Associated Press account of Soviet conflicts might read if the dateline were Africa: Read more »

Africa: Savage Beasts and Beastly Savages

From the stories of the African travels of Dr. Doolittle where the monkeys are more intelligent than the people to the modern myths of commercial advertising, Americans are exposed… Read more »

Africa: Dateline: Africa

On March 21, 1990, scores of world leaders gathered in a soccer stadium for a dramatic midnight ceremony. After a long war against South African rule, the last colony in… Read more »

Africa: A Failure to Communicate: Two Contrasting Views

First Read more »

Africa: Dog Bites Man No Longer News

Negative images of Africa have a lingering persistence. And nowhere are they more powerful than in descriptions of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo and setting for Joseph Conrad's… Read more »