Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia?s presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: As First Round Results Remain Stagnant, Liberian Elections Commission Chairman Receives Death Threats

With the counting of votes nearing completion in Liberia's presidential and legislative elections last week, the chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Frances… Read more »

Sudan: Powell Says The World Has Not Fully Faced Darfur Genocide in Sudan

Violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur continues to be "a situation that the world has not fully faced," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday night as he… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Look Towards Runoff As Vote Counts Nears Completion

With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted in Liberia's presidential election, it appears that no single candidate will receive more than half the votes needed to win an… Read more »

Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger

As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »

Liberia: All Quiet in Monrovia As People Nervously Await Elections Results

In the words of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Liberia, Mr. Alan Doss, "it was a great day for Liberia." After six weeks of a mostly civil… Read more »

Liberia: Peaceful Campaign Ends in Liberia

For a country that has just emerged out of one of the deadliest civil wars in Africa's modern history, Liberia has managed to conduct a surprisingly peaceful campaign leading to… Read more »

Liberia: High Stakes for the Region as Liberians Prepare to Vote

Liberia faces a 'make-or-break' situation as voters go to the polls next week, officials and Africa-watchers in the United States agree. The election is a central facet of the… Read more »

South Africa: Innovative HIV/Aids Program Targets South African Teachers

Four South African teachers' unions have joined with U.S. and South African partners to save teachers' lives through an innovative program combining peer education, HIV testing and… Read more »

Liberia: Last-Minute Problems Facing Elections in Liberia

Less than two weeks before Liberians go to the polls to elect a new president and a new legislature, a Supreme Court ruling has cast a shadow over a process that has so far been… Read more »

Africa: CEOs, Members of U.S. Congress Meet on Aids Fight

Concerned that competing priorities will blunt efforts to fight HIV/Aids around the world, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids (GBC) held a series of high-level events in… Read more »

South Africa: De Beers Workers Rush for HIV Testing, Treatment

Global diamond giant De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by Anglo American Plc, was honored Wednesday night for its workplace programs on HIV/Aids. Jonathan Oppenheimer, De Beers's… Read more »

Burundi: Govt Determined to Consolidate Peace and Rebuild Burundi - Foreign Minister

Burundi's socio-political history has been a complex mix of power, domination and marginalization. It has experienced bouts of armed conflicts and massacres between Hutus and… Read more »

Guinea: Global Alumina Agrees with UNDP to Advance Millennium Goals in Guinea

In the first agreement of its kind in the Republic of Guinea, a public/private partnership pact has been signed between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global… Read more »

Africa: Progress in Africa Requires International Backing, Kofi Annan and Jendayi Frazer Tell Congressional Forum

"Africans are making important progress on all fronts," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a foreign affairs 'Brain Trust' convened by the Congressional Black Caucus… Read more »

Africa: Religious Leaders Seek To 'Keep The Momentum Going' On Millennium Goals - Ndungane

As world leaders convened in New York for the UN World Summit in New York earlier this month, influential religious leaders from around the world met last weekend to discuss the… Read more »

Liberia: Candidates Debate As Liberian Campaign Enters Last Weeks

After a lull in activity following an energetic start last month, Liberia's election campaign took on new energy last week with a debate in which 11 presidential candidates… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Hedge Funds Tackle Malaria 'Emergency' in Africa

After a global eradication programme eliminated or greatly reduced malaria in most of the world by 1969, the disease was largely overlooked in international development planning.… Read more »

Uganda: Foreign Minister Hopeful on End to LRA Conflict

Uganda has amended its constitution and moved from a no-party political setup to a multi-party political arrangement, abolished presidential term limits, with a presidential… Read more »

Africa: Building Human Capacity Key to Africa's Future, Says AAI President

Since its founding in 1953, the Africa-America Institute (formerly the African-American Institute) has developed and administered programs to educate and train Africans and to… Read more »

Africa: Frazer Succeeds Newman In Top State Department Africa Post

Her Return to Policymaking Raises Hopes for Increased High-Level Focus Read more »

Africa: 'Africa Open for Business' - Stories That Deserve to Be Reported

Business activity is a subject that is sometimes missed in international reporting about Africa. Despite that, Africa produces some impressive economic statistics: a 144 percent… Read more »

Africa: UN Report Urges Global Leaders to Avoid 'One More Empty Promise'

An annual report released today by the United Nations Development Programme takes a critical look at the failure of the international community to make progress toward the 2015… Read more »

Cameroon: Accusations Against Cameroon's U.S. Ambassador Refuted

An article from the The Post, published in Buea, Cameroon, one of the African newspapers that has a distribution agreement with AllAfrica, accused Cameroon's ambassador to the… Read more »