Africa: U.S. Plans No New Bases on Continent, Says Official

The United States' new African military command structure – Africom – will neither base nor deploy U.S. forces on the African continent, Deputy Assistant Secretary… Read more »

Africa: From Atlanta to East Africa

In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000,  journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with… Read more »

Ethiopia: UN Report Warns of Food Crisis in Ogaden

Parts of eastern Ethiopia could face a major food crisis if the shortage in the region is not immediately addressed, an inter-agency United Nations report released Wednesday… Read more »

Sudan: Group Calls for Armed Protection of Darfur Civilians

Human Rights Watch has urged the African Union and the United Nations to give their joint Darfur peacekeeping force "rapid response" capabilities, with enough attack… Read more »

Africa: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations

In the second of AllAfrica's series of excerpts from No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the former United Nations… Read more »

Africa: U.S., China Can Reconcile Policies, Say Experts

The "divergent" interests of the United States and China "can be reconciled to Africa's benefit," according to representatives from Africa, China and the… Read more »

Africa: Why Worry about Africa?

The first of allAfrica's excerpts from the new book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, is a letter in which Alphaeus… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Backs SADC Talks

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative to promote a negotiated political solution in Zimbabwe offers the only realistic way out of the current crisis, and the… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Opposition Takes Power

Sierra Leone's opposition All People's Congress (APC) has taken power by winning both presidential and parliamentary elections. Read more »

Uganda: Medical Aid Dispute 'Misunderstanding.' Says NGO

The Ugandan mission of the aid organization, Médecins Sans Frontières-Spain, has described reports that it is administering HIV/AIDS and TB drugs that are not yet… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Koroma Looks Ahead to Election Win

Ernest Bai Koroma has strengthened his claim to become the next president of Sierra Leone. Read more »

Ethiopia: Ogaden Leaders Accuse Govt of 'Genocide'

Leaders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (OLNF), a rebel group fighting against the Ethiopian government, have accused the Ethiopian army of committing crimes… Read more »

Liberia: Bush Extends Stay for Liberians in U.S.

Thousands of Liberians facing deportation from the United States were granted an 18-month extension by a presidential order published by the White House on Wednesday. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Opposition Holds Lead in Elections

With nearly a million votes counted in Sierra Leone's presidential election, opposition challenger Ernest Koroma remains in the lead, according to the National Electoral… Read more »

South Africa: What Steve Biko Means for SA Today

Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region

In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Opposition Pulls Ahead in Election

Early polling results announced by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), give opposition candidate Ernest Koroma an early lead in the country's presidential… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Fierce Mugabe Critic Resigns Over Scandal

Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, the fierce critic of the Mugabe government who faces court action over an allegation that he had an affair with a married woman, has resigned his… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Voters Await Results After Tense Election

Sierra Leoneans are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the second round of a presidential election which could see the ruling party deposed from office, agencies report. Read more »

Africa: Violence in Developing Countries

As violence and war grip societies all over the world, social scientists, economists and scholars are rushing to answer the question "why?" Several explanations of the… Read more »

Africa: Resistance to Modernization in Africa

The effectiveness of aid and development policies in Africa is almost always measured by scholars and policymakers. Similarly, support of or resistance to such policies is usually… Read more »

Morocco: Elections May Mark Islamist Revival

A moderate Islamist group that had the third-highest number of seats in Morocco's lower chamber of Parliament expects to be the biggest beneficiary in the country's… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Hopes to Light Continent

The World Bank hopes to bring affordable and environmentally-friendly lighting products to up to 250 million Africans by the year 2030. Read more »

Somalia: Crisis Among World's Worst, Says Rights Expert

The scale of human rights abuses and the displacement of people in Somalia has made it among the world's worst situations of its kind, a rights expert has told a meeting in… Read more »

Somalia: Another Journalist Threatened

The organising secretary of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Ali Moallim Isak, received threatening phone calls after two gunmen arrived at his office only to find that he… Read more »