Africa: Continent's Best Soccer Teams Head For World Cup

There's only one slot left to be filled in Africa's line-up at the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to be played in South Africa next June, and it will be taken after what has the makings of… Read more »

Morocco: Sahrawi People Must Have Right to Choose Future, Urges Activist

Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan… Read more »

Western Sahara: Human Rights Awardee Detained, Deported by Morocco

In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Boosts Need for Policies to Support African Farmers

Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its… Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S., South Africa Press Govt Over Diamonds

South African and American diplomats said this week that they expected Zimbabwe to implement "stringent controls" according to a "very tight work plan" to make the country's… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Peace Corps to Bring New Focus to Food Security

The Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon… Read more »

Somalia: Pirates Hijack Cargo Ship

Somali pirates hijacked a vessel carrying 22 crew members that was heading to Durban, South Africa, early Wednesday morning. It was the fourth attack on a ship off the Somali coast… Read more »

Guinea: Opposition Rejects Unity Govt

Guinea's opposition has rejected a proposal for a government of national unity which would include the military junta which seized power last December, reports Le Potentiel of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: 'Slow Boat to China'

When Zimbabweans were being attacked and killed in political violence, a little-known South African musician was inspired to act by the stories she heard from refugees living… Read more »

Liberia: Monrovia Tests Elections Commission

Thousands of Liberians living in Montserrado county, the seat of the country's capital Monrovia, headed for the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in a senatorial by-election to… Read more »

Central Africa: Build Cohesion in Divided Societies, Urges U.S. Envoy [Part 2]

The American government's new special adviser on the Great Lakes region, Howard Wolpe, comes to the post with the best part of three decades' experience in the Africa policies of… Read more »

Somalia: Pirates Launch Longest Range Attack Yet

Pirates today fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at a 330-metre long oil tanker sailing 1,000 miles from the Somali coast. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Failure to Act on Abuses Threatens Conflict Diamond Process

The decision to give Zimbabwe no more than a slap on the wrist for the human rights abuses which its army has committed on the Marange alluvial diamond fields in the south-east of… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: New Multinational Partnership Launches Peace Efforts [Part 1]

Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs… Read more »

Guinea: Opposition Presents Demands to Compaoré

A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end  the political crisis… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Media Leaders Gather in Lagos

Top executives from African media houses gather in Lagos on Thursday for two days of consultations on how to sustain the development of good journalism on the continent. Owners,… Read more »

East Africa: Saving Lives, Securing Livelihoods

Mount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: Govt Frees Mercenaries

The government of Equatorial Guinea has freed four South African mercenaries jailed for plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, South Africa's foreign ministry has… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Cultivating Food Security in the City

In recent years Zimbabweans have faced severe food shortages and staggering hyperinflation. As a result, residents in the capital, Harare, have increasingly turned to urban… Read more »

Africa: Most of Continent Provides 'Prosperous Emerging Markets' - CEO

Lonrho is a London-listed conglomerate with a rich history and long involvement in Africa. Established in 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining Company, the company became well… Read more »

Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security

This year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger.… Read more »

Sudan: Tensions Grow Over North-South Unity

Tensions are rising in Sudan as the country prepares for elections in 2010 and a subsequent referendum over whether the people of South Sudan want to break away and become an… Read more »

Kenya: Widows Support Themselves Selling Maize to World Food Programme

Widows are often looked down on and pitied in Kenya. But the widows in the village of Angata Barakoi in the Transmara area of Kenya were determined to help each other and make a… Read more »

Africa: Trees Can Increase Farm Yields and Transform Agriculture Says Agroforestry Group

Headquartered in Nairobi Kenya and working across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Latin America and Asia, the World Agroforestry Centre aims to enhance soil fertility and the… Read more »

Niger: Tree Planting Heroine Helps Reclaim the Desert

Sakina Mati is a farmer and community leader in the village of Guidan Batoye, in the Maradi Region of Niger. She began to manage the regeneration of useful trees on her fields 15… Read more »