Africa: UN Trade Agency Aims to Bring the Poor into the Process

The Geneva-based International Trade Center (ITC) and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation are hosting a forum in Berlin, focusing on how exports can reduce poverty in the… Read more »

Africa: The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources

The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources Read more »

Africa: 'Heritage Trail' to Link African, Caribbean, U.S. Tourist Effort

Hundreds of participants are expected at a 5-day 'African Diaspora Heritage Trail' (ADHT) conference opening today in Hamilton, Bermuda. Read more »

Africa: International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier

International Migration has become a hot issue, especially among Africans in the wake of the problems West Africans have been having in the Canary Islands and Spain. A new book… Read more »

Liberia: President Johnson Sirleaf Honored with Freedom Award

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was honored Thursday night in Washington with the 2006 Freedom Award, a distinction she shared with U.S. First Lady Laura Bush. Read more »

Uganda: Uganda and Museveni's Leadership

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, says the promise of peace will allow all Ugandans to benefit from the social, economic and political progress his government has fostered… Read more »

Uganda: Our People Embrace Peace

The world may rest assured that the people of Uganda eagerly embrace the promise of peace and an end to the colonially generated violence, fascism and terrorism orchestrated by the… Read more »

Uganda: Nation in Crisis Thanks to Divisive Regime

The government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have agreed to end two decades of hostilities in the northern part of the country. This is good news. But, only… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor Says Millennium Challenge Compact Provides Boost to Country's Economic Progress

The following is a transcription of the press briefing by Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor on August 4, 2006 at the Wyndham Hotel, Washington, DC. At the briefing, which was… Read more »

Africa: Future Lies With 'Community-Based Tourism' Says Kenyan Official

"Community-based tourism is opening up a new era," Dr. Dan Kagagi, CEO of Kenya's Tourism Trust Fund, told reporters Tuesday at the TourismAfrica 2006 meeting underway in… Read more »

Africa: Aggressive 'Tourist Offensive' Planned

African government officials, tour operators and service providers from all over the world and representatives from international organizations began the first of a week-long… Read more »

Africa: Women and Collective Action in Africa

Women and Collective Action in Africa Read more »

Zimbabwe: Political Transition Needed to End Economic Crisis, MDC Leader Says

Morgan Tsvangirai, founder and leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), ran for president in 2002 after decades of experience in Zimbabwe's labor… Read more »

Africa: Building on AGOA for African Agricultural Trade Expansion

On the final day of the annual forum on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) last month, the United States and Rwanda signed a bilateral agreement aimed at increasing trade… Read more »

Ghana: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania

Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania Read more »

Sudan: To Halt the Atrocities, Follow the Money

Hard though it is to believe, the horrific humanitarian situation in Darfur is getting worse. There are more clashes now than a year ago, the number of rapes has steadily climbed… Read more »

Angola: The Hero (O Herói)

The Hero (O Herói) Read more »

South Africa: The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club

The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club Read more »

Tanzania: Rough Guide to the Music of Tanzania

Rough Guide to the Music of Tanzania (Various Artists) Read more »

Sudan: New CD Unites Northern and Southern Sudan

Ceasefire by Sudanese artists Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim Read more »

Southern Africa: Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors

Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors Read more »

Africa: Africa Society President and CEO Leonard Robinson Dies

Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., president and CEO of the Africa Society, a leading Washington D.C.-based advocacy group, died early Tuesday at Washington Hospital Center following a… Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Africa: World Bank President Sees A Continent on the Move

World Bank President and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz addressing delegates yesterday, at the seventh Sullivan Summit of African and African American leaders, said… Read more »

Zambia: New CD by Zambia's Dr. Mooch

"Easy Duzzit" by Dr. Mooch Read more »