June 25, 2008
Zimbabwe: Peace Advocates Deserve Support
With Zimbabwean leader Morgan Tsvangirai's brave decision Sunday to pull out of Friday's presidential run-off election, no one in the world can say the race was ever anything more… Read more »
June 24, 2008
Africa: Continent Needs Effective Human Rights Court
Just as efforts to build a pan-African human rights system appear set to culminate in the establishment of a human rights court for the continent, a proposal has been made which… Read more »
Zimbabwe: UN Security Council Condemns Govt Violence
In its first statement publicly condemning the conduct of Zimbabwe's presidential election, the United Nations Security Council has placed the blame for violence, intimidation and… Read more »
June 22, 2008
Zimbabwe: Opposition Pulls Out of Election
Oppostion leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election. Read more »
June 21, 2008
Africa: National Soccer Teams Look for Revenge
A great wind of revenge and score-settling is blowing across soccer fields this weekend as teams play return matches in the second round of the combined 2010 Cup of Nations and… Read more »
June 18, 2008
Africa: Trade Reforms Can Cut Food Prices
An international panel set up to review whether economically-developed countries are keeping their promises to Africa said this week that progress in talks on a new global trade… Read more »
June 17, 2008
Africa: History Can Be Cruel for Eritrea, Ethiopia
A decade ago Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki launched a border war in the Horn of Africa that killed 80,000 people. Read more »
June 16, 2008
Africa: Rising Food Prices Will Kill Children, Says Panel
There will be a "sharp increase" in deaths among young children in Africa unless the international community finds a way of stopping the current rise in food prices,… Read more »
June 15, 2008
Africa: Running Where Others Walked
“We must run while they walk!” This was the rallying cry first evoked by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania decades ago. It captured both the euphoria and ambition of a newly… Read more »
June 13, 2008
Africa: No Room For Error in Soccer Qualifiers
Many of the continent’s national soccer teams have no room for error as they enter this weekend’s round of combined qualifiers for the 2010 Cup of Nations and World Cup… Read more »
Liberia: Police Question Two Men Over Farm Clash
Senator Roland Kahn and Charles Bennie, a former rebel official, both allegedly linked to the deaths of 13 persons in a farm clash southeast of Monrovia, turned themselves in to… Read more »
June 12, 2008
Zimbabwe: Continent's Top Leaders Call for Free Polls
Fourteen former African presidents, two former heads of the United Nations, African Nobel laureates and some of the continent's top artists and business leaders have called for an… Read more »
Africa: Would President Obama be Good for the Continent?
If Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, becoming the world’s most powerful leader, what difference would it make to America’s engagement with Africa?… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Police Hold Tsvangirai - Again
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was held by police for the third time in a week while campaigning for the June 27 presidential run-off election. Read more »
Liberia: Farm Workers Killed in Clash
At least 13 farm workers are dead after a violent clash over a plot of farmland 55 kilometers south-east of the capital, Monrovia. Read more »
June 11, 2008
Sudan: Dozens Die In Airliner Fire
A Sudanese airliner erupted into flames after landing in Khartoum late Tuesday night, killing dozens of people. Read more »
June 10, 2008
Africa: Soccer Fans See Comebacks, Surprises and Family Affairs
The last two weekends of qualifiers for the next African Cup of Nations and World Cup 2010 tournaments were characterized by a number of themes: a North African comeback, the… Read more »
June 07, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Using Food as Political Tool, Says U.S.
The American ambassador to Harare has lashed out at the Zimbabwean government, accusing it of using food as a political tool. Read more »
June 06, 2008
Zimbabwe: Opposition Leaders Gloomy on Run-off Election
Zimbabwean opposition leaders have expressed deep pessimism over the potential of the June 27 presidential election run-off to end the country's political crisis. Read more »
June 05, 2008
Africa: Things Go Worse With Oppression, Says Coke
Economies can grow in countries which do not meet Western standards for democracy, says Neville Isdell, the world-wide head of The Coca-Cola Company. But once they are growing,… Read more »
Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York
A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »
June 04, 2008
South Africa: Ugly Politics Aggravate Xenophobia
The attacks on migrants from elsewhere in Africa in South Africa recently are not simply a result of xenophobia. They are a product of ugly, debased politics in which mainstream… Read more »
Africa: Kenyan PM Attacks Continent's Leaders
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga launched a slashing attack on Africa's leaders at the World Economic Forum for Africa on Wednesday. Read more »
June 03, 2008
South Africa: Leaders Deal With Bars to Nigerian Business
Obstacles to Nigerians doing business in South Africa appear to have received as much attention in talks during President Umaru Yar'Adua's state visit to South Africa as recent… Read more »
Africa: Yar'Adua Explains Stand on Africom
President Umaru Yar'Adua reiterated in South Africa Tuesday that he had asked the United States to give military assistance to groupings of African nations, but that he had… Read more »