Nigeria: JAAIDS Leads Fight Against Aids Through the Media

Nigeria is one of five "next wave'" countries identified by global health experts as likely to experience a crisis from rising rates of HIV infection. A U.S. national intelligence… Read more »

Mozambique: Country Pursuing Investment for Development, President Says

Armando Guebuza, who won the presidency of Mozambique in December 2004 elections, is one of the African leaders attending the Corporate Council on Africa's Business Summit in… Read more »

Africa: Business Summit Aimed at Boosting U.S. Investment in Africa, Says CCA President

The fifth U.S. Africa Business Summit, sponsored by the Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa, opened in Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday night with a gala awards dinner.… Read more »

Africa: Bush Meeting with Five Presidents Meant to Emphasize Democracy Not Deliver Results

Five African presidents met at the White House on June 13 with President George Bush to talk on issues relating to democracy and economic development. Taking part were John Kufuor… Read more »

Tanzania: Innovative Hospital Rehabilitation Project Aims to Improve Care

An innovative rehabilitation project for Tanzania's leading public hospital has improved the quality of the nation's health care, paved the way for a national anti-retroviral drug… Read more »

Namibia: Namibia Deserves Aid, Debt Relief, Despite 'Mid-Income' Status, Says President Pohamba

Hifikepunye Pohamba, who three months ago became Namibia's second president since independence in 1990, was one of five African leaders who met with President George Bush at the… Read more »

South Africa: President Mbeki Relieves Deputy President Zuma of Post

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has relieved the country's deputy president, Jacob Zuma, of his post. Read more »

Africa: G8 Debt Agreement to Benefit 23 African Countries; Separate Deal for Nigeria Mooted

The agreement on 100% debt relief for developing countries announced by finance ministers from the eight largest industrial nations on Saturday initially benefits 14 nations in… Read more »

South Africa: Corruption Trial Pressures Mbeki, Facing G8 Summit, to Fire Deputy

South Africa's most important corruption trial since liberation has ended in a 15-year prison sentence for Schabir Shaik, financial adviser to the country's deputy president, Jacob… Read more »

Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora

In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Presses G8 to Fund Africa Action Plan

With African issues high on the agenda of the summit of the leaders of the world's largest industrial nations next month, President Thabo Mbeki of South African appealed to… Read more »

Uganda: Peace Is in Sight, But Term Limits a Hindrance, Says Uganda Minister

In 1907, captivated by its natural beauty, Winston Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa. For many years, the country's Makerere University, whose history as an educational… Read more »

Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha

Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »

South Africa: Straddling Two Worlds - An Israeli Journalist Writes about his South African Childhood

Hirsh Goodman grew up in South Africa and as a young adult emigrated to Israel. His new memoir is called Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience… Read more »

Senegal: Africa Must Have Veto on UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Says

The African continent is entitled to at least one veto-wielding member at the United Nations Security Council, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Senegal's minister of foreign affairs, said… Read more »

Africa: Mandela's Powerful Message - 'Africa's Time Has Come'

As people begin to line up in movie theaters to visit galaxies far, far away in the final chapter of Star Wars, Nelson Mandela comes to America to remind us of a continent right… Read more »

Africa: Powell Defends Obasanjo on Taylor and Calls for Greater Support for Africa

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be asked "to be unfaithful to the commitment he made" to provide asylum to former… Read more »

Nigeria: Debt Relief Critical to Development and Democracy, Senators Say

In a first for the Nigerian National Assembly, a delegation of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and officials from the Debt Management Office traveled to… Read more »

Africa: Life After the Presidency

"What does an African head of state do when he leaves office?" said Professor Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa during an African… Read more »

Liberia: U.S. Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor

The United States government is taking steps to increase pressure on high-level individuals who are suspected of fueling conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the last… Read more »

Africa: Jendayi Frazer Tapped for State Department Africa Post

The top Africa policymaker in the U.S. Department of State, Constance Berry Newman, has submitted her resignation, according to several government sources who asked not to be… Read more »

Ghana: Erosion of Rights Has Divided Ghana and Must Be Reversed

Reflections on the Work of the National Reconciliation Commission Read more »

Africa: UN Aids Envoy Tapped by Time

Canada's former United Nations ambassador, Stephen Lewis, who serves as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, has been named by Time magazine in… Read more »

Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book

Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »

Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator

After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »