August 24, 2000
Nigeria: Nigeria: Chronology Of The Struggle For Stability And Democracy
The forty years of independence for Africa's most populous nation have not been easy. Welding such a diverse community into a single nation with a stable political process is still… Read more »
August 23, 2000
Nigeria: Clinton Official Sets Broad Agenda For Nigeria Visit
AllAfrica.com's Charlie Cobb spoke to Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs about President Clinton's imminent visit to Nigeria and Tanzania Read more »
August 09, 2000
South Africa: Ma Mofokeng: An Unsung Heroine For Women's Day
An woman unknown to the vast majority of South Africans has won hearts and been dubbed the mother of the nation after appearing on a national radio show. Read more »
August 08, 2000
Mozambique: Snapshot Of A Nation Rebuilding Its Dreams
The president's motorcade, numbering dozens of cars filled with local, national and foreign dignitaries, takes the detour that leads across a temporary bridge, crossing the mighty… Read more »
August 05, 2000
Cameroon: Floods Kill Three in Douala
Floods affected thirty percent of the houses in Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, on Friday, following three days of severe torrential rains. Read more »
July 28, 2000
Africa: Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act Passes Unanimously
The House unanimously approved the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000 Thursday. The bill allocates $300 million to the Treasury Department over the next two fiscal… Read more »
July 25, 2000
South Africa: Tutu Presses Aid Plan in Washington Visit
The unprecedented international attention being focused on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and the election of a new U.S. Administration could provide the impetus for a major new… Read more »
July 24, 2000
South Africa: Tutu - "Our Country Is a Scintillating Success Waiting to Happen"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the retired South African cleric and Nobel Peace Prize winner, visited Washington Monday to appeal for a Marshall Plan-style aid for his country. In a day… Read more »
July 12, 2000
South Africa: Grass-roots Message for Mbeki: Stop Debating, Start Fighting AIDS
Lucy is South African. She is 17 and HIV positive. Lucy's baby daughter, Pearl, is fifteen months old. Pearl is a product of rape which, like AIDS, is a scourge in South Africa. Read more »
July 06, 2000
South Africa: South Africa's World Cup Dreams Dashed
South Africans are heart-broken, disappointed and angry about losing the 2006 Soccer World Cup bid to Germany. They are learning that the politics of soccer can be cut-throat. Read more »
March 30, 2000
Southern Africa: African Relief Fund Established by African Ambassadors to the U. S.
Because natural disasters, such as the recent flooding in southern Africa and Madagascar pose a "continuous threat," African ambassadors to the United States have formed a… Read more »
March 28, 2000
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Readying for Drought Emergency, Ambassador Says
"In the last couple of years the rainy seasons have failed," says Ethiopian Ambassador Berhane Gebre-Christos, explaining the drought that continues to batter his nation. Read more »
March 19, 2000
Mozambique: U.S. Officials Say Mozambique Flood Response Slowed by Miscalculation
In the wake of cyclones that devastated Mozambique, it appeared for a moment that a storm of another kind was about to sweep across Africa, the United States and Europe. Read more »
March 10, 2000
Africa: African Diasporas In The Old And The New Worlds: Consciousness And Imagination
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March 08, 2000
East Africa: East Africa Drought Hits the Horn, Famine Threatened
An estimated fifteen million people on the Horn of Africa are at risk of severe hunger this year warned USAID Administrator Brady Anderson in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Anderson… Read more »
March 04, 2000
Mozambique: NOAA Modeling African Flooding
- Although another tropical storm seems likely to dump more heavy rainfall into Mozambique on Monday, according to weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Read more »
March 02, 2000
Mozambique: Mozambique Story Edging Into View
After a slow start, U.S. media coverage of catastrophic flooding in Mozambique is picking up. "This is the biggest story in Southern Africa, the worst disaster in the region," says… Read more »
March 01, 2000
Africa: National Summit Announces "Continuation"
Making a fine distinction between the descriptive terms "permanent" and "continuing," the National Summit on Africa has announced it will go on as an organization. "The United… Read more »
February 23, 2000
Angola: UNITA's Savimbi Reported Killed
Government forces have killed Unita leader Jonas Savimbi, the Associated Press and the BBC are reporting citing a joint government-army statement read on state radio and television… Read more »
February 20, 2000
Africa: African Ambassadors Weigh in on Summit Policy Document
The "National Policy Plan of Action for U.S. Africa Relations in the 21st Century," being discussed and debated by delegates at the National Summit on Africa, will "ultimately be… Read more »
Mozambique: Mozambique hardest hit as rains pummel southeastern Africa
Sunshine has returned to the skies of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, after torrential rains that have brought the worst flooding in half a century to the east African nation. But… Read more »
Africa: Delegates Work Late Into the Night on Plan of Action
Delegates to the National Summit on Africa worked late into the night Saturday debating last minute amendments to the "National Policy Plan of Action" and voting up or down -… Read more »
Africa: 'Where do we go from here?' Summit delegates ask
For C. Payne Lucas, the path to take in the aftermath of the National Summit on Africa is clear Asked about the future of a process he was central to initiating, the president of… Read more »
February 18, 2000
Africa: Prospects for Trade Bill Passage Improve
Calling passage of legislation to promote U.S. trade with Africa "a job that needs to be done," President Clinton appealed to delegates attending the National Summit on Africa here… Read more »
Africa: Angolan Journalist Barred from Travel to Washington
Rafael Marques, an Angolan journalist and human rights advocate who spent 41 days in a Luanda prison late last year, was reportedly barred by his government from traveling to… Read more »