Africa: Continent Wrestles For Creative Health Solutions

Sub-Saharan Africa is struggling with the world's greatest health problems today, with malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS the biggest challenges. Yet financial constraints, poor… Read more »

Africa: Business Promotes Health Partnerships

Although the health challenges facing Africa are enormous, unique efforts are underway to help diminish the human toll that illnesses exact and to ease the related economic cost. Read more »

Africa: Developed Countries Can Help Cut Mothers' Deaths

Countries in Africa have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Read more »

Kenya: Franchising Health Instead of French Fries

Scott Hillstrom is founder, chairman and CEO of the HealthStore Foundation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. The foundation aims to improve access to… Read more »

Liberia: U.S Medical Volunteers Share Expertise

Health Education and Relief Through Teaching (HEARTT), a U.S.-based non-profit organization operating in Liberia, aims to educate and otherwise assist local health care providers… Read more »

Africa: Corporate Coalitions Band Together to Fight Aids

One of the aims of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) – an organization representing about 200 American companies investing in Africa – is to help its members… Read more »

Africa: Program Sends Mobile Clinics to Continent

U.S. Doctors for Africa (USDFA), a non-profit humanitarian organization founded 11 years ago, has several ongoing projects on the continent, including sending mobile clinics to… Read more »

Africa: Rolling Back Malaria

One of the goals of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership – launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), the UN… Read more »

Africa: New Effort to Promote Health Insurance

In Africa, most people pay for health care out of their own pockets, and few can afford it. But new efforts are underway that enable the cost burden to be shared. Read more »

Africa: New Advocacy Group Vows Tough Stance on HIV/Aids

Stephen Lewis is a renowned Canadian diplomat who has worked extensively to reduce the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa and to advocate for those living with the disease. An… Read more »

Africa: On a Roll Against Malaria

Malaria claims at least one million African lives each year – 90 percent of all malaria deaths worldwide – and incapacitates millions of more people who fall sick. An… Read more »

Africa: Taking From the Poor, Giving to the Rich

Sub-Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden but only three percent of the world's health workers, according to the World Health Organization. Dorothy Ngoma,… Read more »

Chad: Conflict Hinders Fight Against Aids

Although treatment for Aids patients in Chad has been expanding, health officials worry that there is a risk that the disease might spread faster than it once did because of… Read more »

Liberia: Taylor Gave Orders, Arms, and Ammunition to RUF

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Liberia: Cross-Examination of Isaac Mongor Ends

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org  Read more »

Liberia: Fifth Day of Cross-Examination of Prosecution Witness Focuses on Arms, Ammunition, and Loose Ends

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Liberia: Cross-Examination of Isaac Mongor Takes on New Angles

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Liberia: Defense Attacks Isaac Mongor?s Credibility For a Third Day

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Africa: 'Quiet' India Could Offer Lessons to Continent

Several African leaders travel to New Delhi this week for the inaugural meeting of an Africa-India Forum Summit, organized by the African Union and the government of India. Citing… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Opposition's Tsvangirai Claims Presidency

Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) reasserted on Saturday that it had won outright last week's presidential election and signalled its reluctance to go into a second… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Police Bar Opposition From Court

Police have stopped lawyers for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from entering the High Court in Harare, where they were scheduled to ask for an order… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Academic Challenged U.S. 'Pseudo-Democratic' Policies

As a professor of Politics who teaches in the African studies program at the University of San Francisco, a progressive activist, a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement and other… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Election Observers Are Not Solidarity Missions

Zimbabwe’s elections have been given a stamp of approval by a number of observer missions from intergovernmental organizations invited by the Zimbabwean government. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Journalists Arrested, Opposition Offices Raided

Two foreign journalists were detained and rooms used by Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change were reportedly raided on Thursday. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Ruling Party Loses Parliament

Zimbabwe's official election commission has confirmed that the Zimbabwe Africa National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF), the party which has ruled the country for nearly 30 years,… Read more »