October 30, 2006
Ethiopia: New Film on the Plights of Ethiopian Coffee Growers is Creating a Buzz
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October 26, 2006
Africa: Leadership Prize for Liberian President Is a Challenge to End Hunger
When she walked up the podium on Saturday evening, October 21, 2006 to receive the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of… Read more »
Africa: Record-Breaking Governance Prize Launched
After a professional career spent proving that investing in Africa can be profitable, telecommunications entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim has embarked on a new task: to improve the quality… Read more »
Africa: Governance Index Is a Work in Progress, Rotberg Says
Dr. Robert Rotberg, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, told AllAfrica about the index he is working on that will be used, among other purposes, to guide the… Read more »
Africa: Celtel Founder Explains Reasons for Leadership Prize
Celtel founder Mo Ibrahim told AllAfrica about his groundbreaking $5 million prize for African leadership, the largest award in the world. Excerpts: Read more »
October 22, 2006
Mozambique: Visitors are Discovering Country's Charms, Says Tourism Minister
Fernando Sumbana Jr, who has been Mozambique's minister of tourism since the department was created in 2000, believes his country has the assets required to attract tourism… Read more »
October 19, 2006
Africa: Calls for African Empowerment as Clinton Accepts Africare Award
Former U.S. president William J. Clinton on Wednesday night joined Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Colin L. Powell, and Graca Machel as recent recipients of the 2006 Africare Bishop… Read more »
October 18, 2006
Africa: Speech of William Jefferson Clinton Accepting the 2006 Africare Humanitarian Award
The following is a transcript of William Jefferson Clinton's Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Africare Humanitarian Award. Read more »
Liberia: A Conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
At a breakfast fundraiser in Washington DC for the Liberian Education Trust, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discussed the nation's prospects for development and peace with… Read more »
October 17, 2006
Liberia: President Calls for Faster Aid Flows: Speech at Georgetown University
The following is the text of a speech given by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at Georgetown University. Read more »
Liberia: Liberian Education Trust Aims to Get Children Back to School
Fourteen years of war destroyed most of Liberia's schools and forced tens of thousands of children to become soldiers or sex slaves – or, in the case of many girls, both.… Read more »
October 16, 2006
Uganda: The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland Read more »
October 11, 2006
South Africa: Women's Empowerment May Take Two
This week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released two long-awaited reports on human rights issues affecting billions of people worldwide: the Study on Violence Against Women and… Read more »
Africa: Violence Against Women Inherently Linked to HIV, Advocate Says
In August, the Global Aids Alliance released a report, Zero Tolerance, that outlines the impact of violence against women and girls on the fight against HIV/Aids. AllAfrica's… Read more »
October 06, 2006
Africa: 'New News' from Africa - Looking Beyond Death, Disease, Disaster and Despair
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the best-known and most award-winning journalists in the United States, has focused her recent career on covering Africa. After nearly two decades as… Read more »
October 05, 2006
Cape Verde: Well-Governed African Nations Merit Attention, Says Prime Minister
"In African countries at-large there is not close attention being given to countries that have good government," Cape Verde Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves said Thursday… Read more »
October 04, 2006
Cape Verde: Is Good Governance Rewarded?
At Independence in 1975, Cape Verde was one of the world's poorest countries whose index of economic vulnerability was one of the highest in the world. Yet today, many outsiders… Read more »
Sudan: Crisis in Sudan
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October 03, 2006
Sudan: We Saved Europeans. Why Not Africans?
With Darfur set to be hit by a second wave of genocide, world leaders are shifting into diplomatic high gear. The government of Sudan flatly rejects deployment of a 22,000-strong… Read more »
September 29, 2006
Africa: UN Trade Agency Aims to Bring the Poor into the Process
The Geneva-based International Trade Center (ITC) and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation are hosting a forum in Berlin, focusing on how exports can reduce poverty in the… Read more »
Africa: The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources Read more »
September 27, 2006
Africa: 'Heritage Trail' to Link African, Caribbean, U.S. Tourist Effort
Hundreds of participants are expected at a 5-day 'African Diaspora Heritage Trail' (ADHT) conference opening today in Hamilton, Bermuda. Read more »
Africa: International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier
International Migration has become a hot issue, especially among Africans in the wake of the problems West Africans have been having in the Canary Islands and Spain. A new book… Read more »
September 22, 2006
Liberia: President Johnson Sirleaf Honored with Freedom Award
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was honored Thursday night in Washington with the 2006 Freedom Award, a distinction she shared with U.S. First Lady Laura Bush. Read more »
September 20, 2006
Uganda: Uganda and Museveni's Leadership
The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, says the promise of peace will allow all Ugandans to benefit from the social, economic and political progress his government has fostered… Read more »
