Mauritania: Coup Effort Outcome Still in Doubt in Mauritania

Military movements and heavy artillery fire were reported early Sunday around the president’s palace in Nouakchott, in what observers in the capital of the northwestern African… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Opposition Leader Faces New Treason Charge

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is facing a new treason charge after his arrest on Friday, in a renewed police crackdown on nationwide anti-government… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Shares 'Oscars of the Internet' Honors With Major Global Media Companies

AllAfrica shared a virtual stage with international media powerhouses at the annual Webby Awards, as one of five nominees for Best News Site of 2003. The awards were presented by… Read more »

Liberia: Taylor Says Coup Foiled As He Proposes More Concessions and Fighting Intensifies

Twenty-four hours after the United Nations-backed Sierra Leone Special Court indicted President Charles Taylor on war crimes, the Liberian leader announced that his government had… Read more »

West Africa: 'If I Stand in the Way of Peace,' I'll Quit, Says Taylor

With reports circulating that Liberian President Charles Taylor had been indicted by a United Nations-backed tribunal, the 55-year old former warlord made an unexpected offer to… Read more »

Ethiopia: Drought and Hunger Bite Deeper as Appeal Falls Short

The UN World Food Programme is warning that despite an early response by the international community to the consequences of Ethiopia's drought, 12.5 million Ethiopians continue to… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Must 'Rescue' Zimbabwe, Says Harare Mayor

Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe has become an opposition stronghold, electing in March 2002 from the ranks of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) the city's Executive Mayor… Read more »

West Africa: Taylor at Accra Peace Talks: "Honourable Exit or Extended Mandate?"

Liberian political leaders and activists are arriving here in the Ghanaian capital to take part in what could be the country's most important peace effort since the outbreak of war… Read more »

South Africa: Congressional Delegation to South Africa Challenged, Impressed

A Congressional delegation returned to Washington, DC Saturday after a week-long trip to South Africa where they encountered efforts to come to grip with HIV/Aids that moved some… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Police Crack Down on Anti-Government Protests, Opposition Leaders Held

A planned week of opposition demonstrations in Zimbabwe was disrupted by police, Monday, after the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, and other… Read more »

Africa: IMF Under Attack by African Finance Ministers

South African finance minister Trevor Manuel slammed the International Monetary Fund today for secretly planning to divide its Africa Department along "colonial" lines into… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Still in Denial Says HIV Treatment Activist

South Africa's most famous Aids activist is called Zackie Achmat. He has been HIV positive for more than ten years and leads the Treatment Action Campaign, which is fighting for… Read more »

Ghana: US Firm Opens Talks to End Dispute with Ghana's Government

Negotiations are taking place this week in Ghana to resolve an ongoing dispute between the government and an American mining company that is complicating an otherwise cooperative… Read more »

Africa: Iraq Not Taking Money From Africa, Insists USAID Chief

USAID Administrator Andrew S. Natsios has flatly denied that U.S. assistance money for Africa is being diverted to Iraq. "The reality is that all of the money we're spending in… Read more »

Liberia: Increased Pressure on Taylor as France Welcomes Opposition Leader

For the first time since Charles Taylor became president of Liberia six years ago, the French foreign ministry has held official consultations with the leader of Liberia's… Read more »

Africa: 'Capacity building' Key To End of Drought-Famine Cycle, says Expert

The past year's food emergency in Southern Africa's continues to have a devastating impact although the Food and Agriculture Organisation's forecast of a 'generally favourable'… Read more »

Africa: Fair Trade, Not Hand-outs, Say Ghanaian Ministers

If, in the past, African nations relied on hand-outs and talked about the rich world's 'obligations' to the continent, they are sounding a different note these days - seeking… Read more »

South Africa: Nation Bids Farewell to Sisulu, 'Quiet Giant’ of the Struggle

The 'quiet giant’ of the South African liberation struggle against apartheid, Walter Sisulu, was laid to rest at Croesus Cemetery near Soweto, Saturday, in the same way he lived… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Why Africa Only Has Four Months to Rescue Zimbabwe

Now that President Thabo Mbeki and his colleagues, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawi's Bakili Muluzi, are at last engaged in a serious effort to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis,… Read more »

Nigeria: U.S. Firm Halliburton Acknowledges Bribe To Nigerian Official

Halliburton, the giant Texas based energy company once directed by Vice President Dick Cheney, acknowledged this week it paid a $2.4 million bribe to a Nigerian government official… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Politician Ouattara On Escape from Death Squads, Future of Unity Government

Alassane Dramane Ouattara, known to his supporters by his initials, ADO, is a former prime minister of Cote d’Ivoire and head of the main opposition Rally of the Republicans (RDR)… Read more »

Africa: Mugabe's Exit 'Not Discussed' at Meeting with Presidents

South African president, Thabo Mbeki, travelled to Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week on a whistle-stop diplomatic mission. Zimbabwe is in crisis and… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: 'Historic' Opportunity 'Critical' Moment In Congo, Say NGOs

International non-governmental organizations working in Congo have been closely following the recent progress made in the DRC on the road to peace and democracy. We consider the… Read more »

South Africa: Anti-Apartheid Hero Walter Sisulu dies at 90

Tributes poured in Tuesday for the South African anti-apartheid hero, Walter Sisulu, who died Monday night in the arms of his wife and fellow liberation activist, Albertina, at… Read more »

Ethiopia: Pioneer Artist Skunder Boghossian Dies in Washington, DC

Ethiopian artist and pioneer of modern African art Alexander Skunder Boghossian was found prone and unmoving in his Washington, DC apartment on Sunday by friends who visited to… Read more »