Botswana: Reaching Out With Anti-Aids Strategies for Women and Girls

Presentation by H.H. Mr. L.C. Lekoa, Botswana's Ambassador to the United States, for World Aids Day at "Reaching Women and Girls," a conference co-hosted by CSIS Task Force and the… Read more »

Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries

Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »

South Africa: Aelred Stubbs, Spiritual Mentor and Editor, Dies

When nine leaders of the black consciousness movement were put on trial in Pretoria in 1975, many of them far from home, and public interest ebbed during the protracted State case,… Read more »

Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption

Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »

Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence

Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 Read more »

Africa: New Book on Aids Pandemic Paints a Troubling Picture

The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global Aids Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. Greg Behrman. Free Press, 2004. 368 pp. $17.50… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Closes Tuesday With Mixed Reactions from African Delegations

The closing of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) Tuesday drew mixed reactions from African delegations who say that although they are encouraged by Japan's… Read more »

Africa: Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference Opens in Tokyo

Public-private partnerships between Asia and Africa topped the agenda Monday during the opening of the Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC) in Tokyo, Japan, as… Read more »

Nigeria: Author Explores Faith and Country in Acclaimed New Novel

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, has received much critical acclaim, having been short listed for the Orange Prize and long listed for the… Read more »

Africa: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »

Egypt: Informal Economy Drives Economic Growth

Egypt's economy received a dismal report card in the World Bank's Doing Business in 2005 report released last month. Nearly a fifth of Egyptian business takes place in the informal… Read more »

Libya: U.S. Non-Oil Businesses Eye Return to Libya

U.S. corporations are positioning for a return to Libya, where they have been banned from doing business since the late 1980s. Read more »

Liberia: A 'Dirty Dozen' List of Preconditions for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment - by Richard Tolbert

Based on my own experience and the experiences of many other international businessmen who have done business in Developing Countries, there are a number of factors that have been… Read more »

Zambia: Zambia Seeks to Turn Prospects to Economic Boom on 40th Anniversary - President Mwanawasa

Remarks by His Excellency Mr. Levy P. Mwanawasa, Sc., President Of The Republic Of Zambia At The Friends Of Zambia Reception at The Metropolitan Club, Washington D.C. Read more »

Liberia: Transparency A Necessity, Not an Option for Liberia, Says Top Government Advisor

The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Harry A. Greaves, Jr., Economic Advisor To The Chairman Of The National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H.… Read more »

Liberia: U.S. Government Supports Recovery and Transparency in Liberia with 'Zero Tolerance' for Corruption

The text (as prepared for delivery) of remarks by Ambassador Pamela E. Bridgewater, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »

Liberia: Private Sector Holds the Key to Liberia's Recovery, Bryant Says

The text (as prepared for delivery) of the keynote address by H.E. Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman, National Transitional Government Of Liberia, to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation… Read more »

Liberia: Ambassador Sees Agriculture as Key to Liberia's Recovery

Nearly a year after the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) was inaugurated last October, the country's interim leader Gyude Bryant is scheduled to arrive in the… Read more »

Sudan: Neutral Force and New Government Needed to Pacify Darfur, Says Sudan Rebel Leader John Garang

To stop the killing in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, a neutral force of 30,000 soldiers is urgently needed, the leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement… Read more »

Sudan: Powell Declares Darfur Crisis Is Genocide

Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is a genocide. This was his first… Read more »

Angola: Giving Blood in Angola

Pedro Siloka told the people that I had given blood. First in Portuguese, then in Mbundu, he told the story of my first visit to Bie Province in 1991, when I had given blood at the… Read more »

Africa: African Capacity Building is Essential to Undermining Terrorist Financial Networks Say U.S. Reps

In line with the ongoing investigations into the financial networks of terror, Juan Zarate, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and William Fox Director of the Financial… Read more »

Sudan: Embassy in Washington Closes Doors `Until Further Notice'

Sudan's U.S. embassy in Washington, D.C. closed Monday, according to its official Web site and a notice posted outside the embassy's door. Read more »

Africa: Remembrance: J. Wayne Fredericks

J. Wayne Fredericks, who, in both official and unofficial roles, was a pioneering advocate of a closer and better-informed relationship between the United States and Africa, died… Read more »

Nigeria: Coordinating Body Develops Nigeria's Response to HIV/Aids

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has created a body to coordinate the national response to HIV/Aids. Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, who serves as chairman of the National… Read more »