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 »

Africa: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S Congress

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were the two key government institutions in Washington… Read more »

Africa: New Survey Picks Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations

Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed… Read more »

Africa: Aid Critical To Ensuring Benefits From Trade

While developing and industrialized countries continue to wrestle in the Doha Round of negotiations to reach a new international trade agreement, there is increasing recognition… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Children Caught in Crossfire in DRC

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned in recent days that fighting in the eastern Congo is placing children in an increasingly vulnerable position –… Read more »

Africa: From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again

In this essay, written for the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the publisher Walter Bgoya tells of his years… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Taking Pity on a Teenage Mother

Amidst stories of terror and suffering from people fleeing fighting in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Unicef correspondent Sarah Crowe heard an… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official

The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »

Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa

In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000,  journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »

Ethiopia: UN Report Warns of Food Crisis in Ogaden

Parts of eastern Ethiopia could face a major food crisis if the shortage in the region is not immediately addressed, an inter-agency United Nations report released Wednesday… Read more »

Sudan: Group Calls for Armed Protection of Darfur Civilians

Human Rights Watch has urged the African Union and the United Nations to give their joint Darfur peacekeeping force "rapid response" capabilities, with enough attack… Read more »

Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations

In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »

Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts

The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »

Africa: Why Worry about Africa?

The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Backs SADC Talks

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative to promote a negotiated political solution in Zimbabwe offers the only realistic way out of the current crisis, and the… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Opposition Takes Power

Sierra Leone's opposition All People's Congress (APC) has taken power by winning both presidential and parliamentary elections. Read more »

Uganda: Medical Aid Dispute 'Misunderstanding.' Says NGO

The Ugandan mission of the aid organization, Médecins Sans Frontières-Spain, has described reports that it is administering HIV/AIDS and TB drugs that are not yet… Read more »