East Africa: Kenyan President and Ethiopian Prime Minister To Meet With Bush

President Bush will meet on Thursday with President Daniel Arap Moi of Kenya and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Chaotic Conflict Deepens As Government Troops Fight To Recover Lost Territory In Ivory Coast

What West African leaders feared most is happening. The complex and chaotic conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has become more confused and spilled over its borders, potentially drawing in… Read more »

Burkina Faso: HIV/Aids' Campaigner Brings New Hope To Sufferers

Mamadou Sawadogo, a nurse from Burkina Faso, is a determined and cheerful optimist. He is also HIV-positive. Sawadogo, 34, became infected with the virus after a needle-stick… Read more »

Africa: HIV/Aids Specialist Says Reducing the Spread of Infection is Achievable

As World Aids Day again called attention to the continuing spread of HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere, AllAfrica talked to Dr. Helene Gayle, director of the U.S. Centers for… Read more »

Kenya: 'Premature' To Blame Al-Quaeda, says White House; Americans In Kenya Cautioned

"It's premature to rule al-Quaeda in or out in these incidents," deputy White House press secretary Gordon Johndroe said during his Thanksgiving intelligence briefing Thursday. Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: More War Talk As New Anti-Government Group Surfaces In Ivory Coast

Fresh developments in the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire were reported on Thursday, with the appearance of a second group opposed to the government of President Laurent Gbagbo. Read more »

Kenya: Hotel Bombing Kills Eleven in Kenya

Seven Kenyans and two Israeli tourists were killed in a terrorist bomb blast as they sat down to breakfast Thursday, when a Landrover crashed into the lobby of the Paradise Hotel… Read more »

West Africa: Ghana Denies Rebel Allegations Of Military Support To Ivorian Government

A leading Ivorian rebel spokesman has accused the government of Ghana of providing military support to the Cote d'Ivoire authorities and of allowing its territory, at the northwest… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Ghana Denies Military Backing For Government Fight Against Rebels In Ivory Coast

Rebels of the Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire (MPCI) Sunday, accused neighbouring Ghana of allowing its territory to be used by troops loyal to Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo… Read more »

Nigeria: Newspaper Contrition Fails to Quell Nigeria Violence

Violence in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna continued sporadically Friday, triggered by a furious reaction of Muslims to the suggestion in a leading national newspaper that… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast New Peace Plan, UN Launches Multimillion Dollar Aid Appeal

West African mediators, trying to broker a peace deal between the Cote d'Ivoire government and rebels, handed both delegations in nearby Togo a fresh draft peace plan Thursday to… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Special Court: Will it Hinder or Help?

Post-war Sierra Leone is being used as a kind of guinea-pig. Following in South Africa's footsteps it will have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission which is intended to allow the… Read more »

Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation

Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Publisher Says Attack on Paper Spotlights Governance Issues

Since Friday's bombing of the National Pilot weekly newspaper in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria's northern Kwara state, the governor and the paper's publisher have traded allegations… Read more »

Sierra Leone: The Killing House of Kailahun

Earlier this year in Sierra Leone, photojournalist Ben Phillips came across a building which had all too obviously been the site of gross violence and cruelty during the years of… Read more »

Sudan: Khartoum, Rebels Extend Ceasefire Until March

The Khartoum government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) agreed Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, to extend a Memorandum of Understanding on the delivery… Read more »

Angola: Peace in Angola Spurs US Interest in Economy and Governance

With peace finally a reality for Angola, there is a "mutual attraction" between the United States and that southern African nation, according to investment banker Rodney Goodwin,… Read more »

South Africa: Technology Skills Can Expand Horizons

"The employment that I was doing before never really touched my heart the way this computer stuff touched my heart. For me, coming here is really manna from heaven." Read more »

Africa: U.S. Trade Rep for Africa Leaving Post

Rosa M. Whitaker, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Africa, will be quitting her post next month. Read more »

Africa: Fight For Global Justice is TransAfrica's Immense Task, Says Danny Glover

While the Free South Africa Movement, and the fight to change U.S. policy toward Haiti gave TransAfrica Forum much of its visibility in the 1990s, the African-American organization… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast Peace Talks on Hold as Rebels Consult

Ivorian rebel representatives left the Togolese capital, Lome, to return to their stronghold in Cote d’Ivoire's central city of Bouake , to consult their colleagues and supporters… Read more »

Kenya: Third Time Lucky for Kenya's Opposition? Raila Odinga Talks About December's Poll

One of Kenya's consummate political operators, Raila Odinga, is on an international tour to spread the word about his latest political project, the National Rainbow Coalition… Read more »

West Africa: West African Army Chiefs Agree Buffer Force for Ivory Coast

West African defence chiefs meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, have agreed the deployment of a regional peace-keeping force in Cote d'Ivoire. Read more »

Zimbabwe: US Threat of 'Intrusive, Interventionist Measures' to Deliver Food Aid Angers Harare

The government-owned Herald newspaper of Zimbabwe and the country's Defense Forces Commander, General Vitalis Zvinavashe, say the U.S. government is plotting to usethe southern… Read more »

Liberia: Embargo on Taylor Must Continue, Says UN Panel

A UN panel of experts established to probe the supply of weapons that fuels the Liberian conflict has just submitted its latest report to the UN Security Council in New York. Read more »