Cote d'Ivoire: Foreign Schoolchildren Evacuated, Regional Peace Efforts Falter

French troops have rescued 160 mainly American children and staff trapped at an international school in Bouake, the central Ivorian city which has been under control of mutinous… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: French Troops Reach Trapped Schoolchildren, Burkina Denies Coup Involvement

Seven straight days after the start of a military revolt in Cote d’Ivoire, French troops have moved to rescue 200 foreign schoolchildren and staff trapped at the International… Read more »

Africa: World Bank/IMF to Meet Amid Protests From Many Quarters.

The World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings that begin in Washington this week, will again take place behind heavy security fences and police lines designed to protect delegates from… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: U.S.Troops Ordered to West Africa

Just under 200 U.S. troops may imminently be deployed in Cote d’Ivoire. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Don Sewell told allAfrica.com that "at the request of the U.S. ambassador to… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Fresh Fighting In Bouake

Reports Tuesday from Bouake, the second largest city in Cote d'Ivoire, said there were gun battles between loyalist government troops and mutinous soldiers, who seized the town… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Overnight Skirmishes in Bouake, French Troops Head North

Residents of rebel-controlled Bouake, in central Cote d’Ivoire, heard a brief but intense barrage of gunfire on Sunday night. But what many might have expected to be the "ferocious… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Mutineers Offered Talks, French Send in Troops

The government in Cote d’Ivoire announced on state television Saturday night that 270 people had been killed since an attempted coup on Thursday, with another 300 wounded in the… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Immigrants Targeted as Government Vows All-out War Against Dissidents

Anti-immigrant feeling ran high in Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday, in the aftermath of a bloody military uprising and coup attempt on Thursday. The government blamed the mutiny on a… Read more »

Sudan: Ceasefire Will Bring Us Back To Talks, Says Foreign Minister

"Without a ceasefire there is no need to return to Nairobi," Sudan's Foreign Minister, Dr. Mustapha Osman Ismail, told a small group of reporters, Thursday. "The government is… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Mutineers Ignore Ultimatum as Deadline Passes

The 15h00 GMT deadline, issued by the government of Cote d’Ivoire for rebel soldiers to lay down their arms, passed on Friday afternoon, with no immediate evidence that the… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Curfew Imposed, Fresh Gunfire in Abidjan

The authorities in Cote d’Ivoire imposed a curfew on Thursday night, after a day of heavy fighting during an army mutiny and reported coup attempt in which the Interior Minister… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Coup or Mutiny? Former Military Ruler Guei Killed

Confusion reigned in Abidjan and other key cities in Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday, after residents were woken in the early morning by sustained, heavy gunfire and mortar blasts in… Read more »

Africa: Nepad Embraced but Questioned at House Hearing

Partnership not judgement should be the U.S. response to Nepad - the New Economic Partnership for African Development - South Africa's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aziz… Read more »

Chad: Chad Activist Wants Pipeline Put on Hold

The World Bank argues that the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project provides an opportunity for one of the poorest regions in Africa to diversify its economy and increase… Read more »

Ghana: Building from the Ground Up - With Local Earth

In Ghana, as in many African countries, concrete - with its dependence on imported inputs - is considered indispensable for building. Yet an excellent, cheap and local alternative… Read more »

Lesotho: Recycling Tin Cans into Houses

Pick up one bit of trash - in this case, an empty soda can - and ask yourself what it might be good for? Read more »

Central Africa: World Bank Greenlights Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Despite Warnings

The World Bank has rejected campaigners' demands and concerns expressed by its own internal advisory panel and approved the continuation of the $4bn Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project. Read more »

Mozambique: Healing People -- and a Country

In some parts of Africa, traditional healers are the first available person a sick person turns to when facing a health emergency. These healers are often a central component of… Read more »

Southern Africa: Mixed Results From Ecotourism in Southern Africa

When the United Nations declared 2002 the Year of Ecotourism, the world body was recognising what is now a common assumption in many parts of the developing world: that this form… Read more »

Central Africa: Peace at Last in Congo - If UN Plays a Role

For the past six years, the death and violence spawned by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has spread across neighboring Congo, where it triggered a regional war on a scale never before… Read more »

Africa: WSSD in Johannesburg Ends on Uncertain Note

AllAfrica's Akwe Amosu watched on Wednesday in Johannesburg as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the… Read more »

Botswana: Mogae in the Spotlight at AAI Dinner and Congressional Black Caucus

"Perhaps overshadowed" by South Africa, Botswana has been "quietly plugging" away at development and meeting some success, despite being battered by HIV/Aids, says Africa-America… Read more »

Africa: More Water in South African Taps

The World Summit has ended with a new pledge to reduce the number of people without access to sanitation by half before 2015. Meeting in Johannesburg, the world leaders also… Read more »

Africa: Business Leader Says Governments Must Set Framework for Action on Environment, Development

After earning a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, Mark Moody-Stuart joined the Shell oil company, rising to become the chair of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from… Read more »

Africa: Activist Entrepreneur Says World Should Be Set Alight With Concern About Climate Change

British scientist Jeremy Leggett's life has traversed the field of energy from diverse points: as a scholar at the elite Royal School of Mines at the Imperial College of Science,… Read more »