Burundi: Poor Prospects For Signing Of Full Burundi Accord In Tanzania

Although former South African President Nelson Mandela just may pull a rabbit out of a hat, no one in the Clinton administration expects that agreement on a Burundi peace accord… Read more »

Nigeria: Diary Of A Summit - How Can We Help The West To 'Get It' About Africa?

Marie Nelson, head of the Rainbow Push Coalition's Washington DC bureau, is travelling with President Clinton's entourage. Read more »

Nigeria: Clinton Welcome Ceremony Curtailed By Security

President Bill Clinton arrived in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, this morning for a two-day visit, accompanied by his daughter Chelsea and a large delegation of administration… Read more »

Nigeria: A Mountain Of Expectations Awaits Clinton

In Pyakasa village, residents are anxiously awaiting the arrival of United States President, Bill Clinton with a long list of demands. Read more »

Nigeria: Why Is This Man Here?

In Nigeria, where debate is a favorite national pastime, President Clinton is topic of the day. Read more »

Nigeria: Clinton Off To Nigeria, Tanzania This Weekend

On the first day of his short but tightly- packed visit to Nigeria, aside from airport ceremonies that will include receiving a key to the city of Abuja, President Clinton will… Read more »

Nigeria: US Policy on Nigeria Dominated By Self-Interest, Critics Say

The US has four policies on Nigeria, said African Affairs analyst Michael Fleshman this week: "Oil, oil, oil - and peacekeeping". Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Economy Ripe For Investment

President Bill Clinton's three-day state visit to Nigeria promises to be a new tonic in reviving a relationship that went sour a few years ago. Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: African Diasporas In The Old And The New Worlds: Consciousness And Imagination

When: 26-27-28 October 2000 Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »