Africa: African Authors to Speak at New York Literature Festival

The first-ever New York Festival of International Literature features writers from more than 45 countries, including African authors Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,… Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar Made 'Extraordinary' Effort To Become First Millennium Account Recipient - Applegarth

The Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors announced mid-March that Madagascar will receive the first funding from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Death by Denial: a Case for Zimbabwe

It is difficult to overstate the trauma and hardships that the increase in Aids-related morbidity and mortality has brought upon children in Zimbabwe. According to UNICEF, one in… Read more »

Africa: 'Hard-Hitting' Report Needs Grass Roots Support To Turn Bold Recommendations Into Policy, Amoako Says

Declaring the living conditions for most Africans to be "intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind," a commission of imminent international figures established by… Read more »

Nigeria: 'Richer' Relationship the Result of Nigeria's Democratic Transformation, Despite Flaws, Says U.S. Ambassador

For the past nine months, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria has been John Campbell, a career foreign service officer who was serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of… Read more »

Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been

Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »

South Africa: Aids Underlies Sharp Rise in South Africa's Death Rate

New South African government statistics show that the number of reported deaths rose by a dramatic 57 percent between 1997 and 2002, mostly as a consequence of tuberculosis,… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Criticizes Debilitating Costs of Telecommunications

Hopes for cheaper telecommunications for South Africa have been raised by President Thabo Mbeki, who declared in his State of the Nation address that it was “unacceptable” that… Read more »

South Africa: Domestic Progress and Promise Highlighted in Mbeki's Address to the Nation

In his “State of the Nation” address to the South African Parliament, President Thabo Mbeki has painted a picture of a country which “has never in its entire history enjoyed such a… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of Côte d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »

Africa: African Solutions To African Problems: A Slogan Whose Time Has Passed

Last month, African Heads of State converged on Abuja, Nigeria, for a summit meeting of the African Union (AU), the organization that covers all of the continent's 53 member… Read more »

Ethiopia: We're Making Progress on Democracy and Aids, Says Ethiopia's Meles [2005]

Dialogue with Eritrea Essential for Peace Read more »

Africa: Skilled Africans Filling Key Posts Abroad, Draining Home Countries of Vital Expertise

"There are more Ethiopian doctors in the United States than there are in Ethiopia," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a forum on Africa's brain drain meeting in Addis Ababa last… Read more »

Angola: Book Outlines Trees, Misses the Forest

Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. Tony Hodges. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 236 pp. $22.95. Read more »

West Africa: Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl

Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. John M. Chernoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 496 pp. $65.00, cloth. $22.50 paper. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Man Discovers Relative's Past in Dust Diaries

The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps. Owen Sheers. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 310 pp. $23.00 cloth. Read more »

South Africa: Novel Explores Women's Experiences in Prison

Journey to Myself: Writings by Women from Prison in South Africa. Edited by Julia Landau. Rondebosch, South Africa: Footprints, 2004. 80 pp. Read more »

Rwanda: Conflict With DRC Inevitable Without Action From the International Community - Top Official

In the past few months, Rwanda's government has increasingly insisted on action from the international community to combat the threat it says is posed by the ex-FAR, Rwanda's… Read more »

South Africa: Rainbow Nation Pursues `Elusive Equity'

Ten years after the fall of apartheid, many wonder whether South Africa's new government has the ability to keep its reforms afloat. With the belief that equity in society begins… Read more »

Nigeria/Tunisia: Enyimba Wins CAF Premiership Second Year Running

Some 40,000 Nigerian football fans gathered in Abuja's National Stadium Sunday were given an early Christmas present as Enyimba of Aba State won the Confederation of African… Read more »

Africa: Morocco Added to Eligibility List for Millennium Challenge Account

Morocco is the only country added to the eligibility list for the 2005 Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), U.S. officials said in November. Cape Verde is not eligible for 2005… Read more »

Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana

Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »

Kenya: Playwright Tries His Hand at the Novel Format

Before The Rooster Crows. Peter Kimani. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. 174 pp. $16.95, cloth. African Books Collective. Read more »

Nigeria: PAHF Opens New Syringe Factory in Port Harcourt

Every year, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria cause more than five million deaths and cost the African continent hundreds of millions of dollars. With levels of public health spending… Read more »

Africa: World Aids Day 2004 Addresses Plight of Women and Girls

If HIV/Aids is to be defeated, the world needs to work together to make a difference in the lives of those who have been infected and affected, especially women, Lapologang Lekoa,… Read more »