Africa: Kenya's Lupita Nyong'o Nominated for Oscar

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts… Read more »

Africa: Leveraging the Continent's Resources for Infrastructure - Kaberuka

Donald Kaberuka has ambitious targets for his second and final five-year term as President of the African Development Bank. At the Bank's annual luncheon earlier this month, he… Read more »

Africa: Africans Give Govts Failing Marks On Power, Water Supplies

Although two of every three Africans believe their governments are performing well in the fight against HIV and Aids, fewer approve of their delivery of basic health services and… Read more »

Madagascar: Former Finance Minister Wins Polls

According to the electoral commission (CENIT), ex-finance minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina has won Madagascar's run-off presidential election, Reuters says. CENIT leader Beatrice… Read more »

Africa: Egypt One of Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists

Egypt has become one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »

Africa: Journalists Killed in Somalia in 2013

Biographies from the Committee to Protect Journalists of the media workers killed in Somalia in 2013: Read more »

Egypt: Journalists Killed in Egypt in 2013

Biographies from the Committee to Protect Journalists of the media workers killed in Egypt in 2013: Read more »

Africa: Championing a Development Agenda Beyond 2015

Molly Elgin-Cossart, senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, reflects on lessons learned from the United Nations High-Level Panel on the… Read more »

South Sudan: 'Lost Boys' of Sudan Cry for Christmas Peace

As 'Lost Boys' of Sudan who know the pain of conflict, we are appealing to the leaders of our young nation to observe a Christmas ceasefire. Read more »

Madagascar: Both Presidential Candidates Claim Victory in Run-Off

AFP reports that Madagascar election results are slowly coming in, as both presidential candidates claim victory in run-off polls. Read more »

Kenya: Train Derails, Crashes in Kibera

A cargo train has derailed and crashed into homes in Kibera, where about one million people live. Read more »

Uganda: Parliamentarians Pass Anti-Gay Bill

Uganda's parliament has adopted an anti-homosexuality bill that will see repeat offenders jailed for life, AFP reports. Read more »

South Africa: Not to Praise Zuma, But to Bury Him

Every single word that President Jacob Zuma has uttered in praise of Nelson Mandela in recent days is rendered hollow and meaningless by his treatment of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Read more »

South Africa: South Africa Buries Mandela - and Apartheid

Today, South Africa buries Nelson Mandela and, with him, once and for all, apartheid, too. Racial conflict is no longer the distinguishing characteristic of South African society. Read more »

Malawi: President Joyce Banda's Speech at Mandela's Burial in Qunu

Your Excellency Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; Madam Graca Machel; Mama Winnie Madikizela- Mandela; The Mandela Family; Your Excellencies, Heads of… Read more »

South Africa: Tutu to Qunu for Mandela Funeral

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will attend Nelson Mandela's state funeral in Qunu, South Africa Sunday, following popular protests - many using the Twitter hashtag #Tutu2Qunu - demanding… Read more »

Madagascar: Plague Claims More Than 30 Lives

An outbreak of plague more vicious than the bubonic strain called the Black Death has killed 39 people in Madagascar, the government said, according to an AFP report. Read more »

South Africa: 'Boy, Did They Blow It' - Mandela's Soccer City Memorial

Never, never and never again will South Africa receive in one day anything like the number of global leaders that turned up for Nelson Mandela's memorial service at the FNB stadium… Read more »

Africa: We Must Continue the Long Walk - Ambassador

An address delivered by Ebrahim Rasool, South African ambassador to the United States, to a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, in the National Cathedral, Washington, DC: Read more »

Africa: Major Progress in Malaria Fight - Report

Despite an increase in the number of people at risk for malaria, mortality rates have dropped dramatically since 2000 through the use of a handful of tools that global health… Read more »

South Africa: Boos & Cheers Greet Leaders At Mandela Service

The world was treated to a display at the official memorial service for Nelson Mandela of how South Africa was freed from apartheid and became a democracy: a feisty, even… Read more »

South Africa: President Obama's Full Speech at Mandela Memorial

U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a powerful speech at former South African president Nelson Mandela's memorial service: Read more »

Liberia: Fighting for Liberia's Future – One Issue at a Time

A Conversation with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Read more »

Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Grows Seven-Fold in Seven Years

Ethiopian Airlines began operations in 1946 as a joint operation managed by the American carrier TWA, using World War II aircraft acquired from the U.S. military to transport… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Coming for Mandela Memorial

The 37 African heads of state and government, as listed by South Africa's foreign ministry, who are scheduled to attend the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg… Read more »