Sudan: Food Delivery Drivers Killed in Darfur

Three truck drivers for the World Food Programme (WFP) have been shot dead while working for the United Nations food agency in Darfur, according to a WFP news release issued today. Read more »

Eritrea: Country Ranks Last in Press Freedom Index

Eritrea has been ranked last in an annual index measuring press freedom around the world. The index was released Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders, an organization that defends… Read more »

South Africa: Leaders Meet to Promote Global South Trade

The leaders of three major growing economies of the Global South – South Africa, Brazil and India – are meeting in Pretoria this week to promote trade and cooperation… Read more »

Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation

"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »

Africa: War Costs Continent U.S. $18 Billion Annually

A new study shows that conflicts in Africa cost the continent over 300 billion U.S. dollars between 1990 and 2005 – an amount equivalent to all the international aid received… Read more »

Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election

Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »

South Africa: Arrest Warrant Issued for Police Chief

An arrest warrant has been issued for South Africa's police chief and the president of Interpol Jackie Selebi. Read more »

Nigeria: Mixed Reactions After 47 Years of Independence

"Take a flag," Rosemary Obelu asks of each person entering Eagle Square, the Abuja site of presidential inaugurations and special events in Nigeria. Her fingers are… Read more »

South Africa: Thousands Rescued From Gold Mine

Thousands of miners are being rescued from Elandsrand gold mine near Johannesburg, where they have been trapped since Wednesday morning. Read more »

Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection

Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »

Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building

Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »

Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Acts on Human Rights

The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill supporting human rights and democracy in Ethiopia. Read more »

Ethiopia: Advocate Says Ogaden Crisis Strikingly Similar to Darfur

A human rights advocate has told the United States Congress that the current situation in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia has striking similarities to Darfur in the run-up to… Read more »

Sudan: Elders Visit Darfur For First Mission

A group of world-renowned humanitarians is visiting Sudan to address the “immense human suffering” in the Darfur’s ongoing crisis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Senegal's President Plans Visit

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has announced plans to visit Zimbabwe this month to suggest an African Union-led mediation process to President Robert Mugabe. Wade told a… Read more »

Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement

Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »

Senegal: President Wade Wants 'More Fair' Trade

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a "level field" for free trade with Africa that would eliminate "unfair" agricultural subsidies and encourage… Read more »

Africa: The Rise of African Hip Hop

Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s, was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it… Read more »

Africa: Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua

Bob Van Lierop doesn't know how many copies of his film A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) were made, or how many times it was shown. But there is no doubt that for many… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Opens News Center and Health Office in Monrovia

AllAfrica Global Media today opened an online international news processing center in the capital of Liberia that will also serve as the hub for HealthAfrica. Read more »

Liberia: Governance Ranking Expected to Improve in Next Ibrahim Survey

The business tycoon whose foundation this week published a new survey ranking Africa''s governments,– in which Liberia scored poorly,– has stressed that the… Read more »

Africa: Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica

AllAfrica.com is the largest free access source of African news on the World Wide Web. By 2007 it was posting some 1,000 stories daily from African newspapers and other sources.… Read more »

Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers

Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Stop Rights Violations Now, Says Tutu

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday made a new attack on human rights violations in Zimbabwe. He said in a statement he was "devastated" by the… Read more »

Africa: New Governance Index Is 'An African Effort' for Development

The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of… Read more »