Chad: President Deby Turns On Oil Pipeline - and a Path to Riches

Landlocked, poor and underdeveloped, Chad joined Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other leading global oil-producing countries Friday, when President Idriss Deby formally inaugurated the… Read more »

Africa: Nigeria, Still Attracted by Gold

With five new gold medals obtained this weekend, two of which were won in the men's and women's 100 meter, Nigeria has advanced a giant step in the standings of the 8th All African… Read more »

Liberia: Lift Sanctions On Liberia, Says Interim Foreign Minister

Economic sanctions could undermine the peace effort Liberian foreign minister Lewis Brown has told United Nations Secretary general Kofi Annan. "They serve no useful purpose" now,… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya is Safe and a Gateway to Africa, Kibaki Tells Business Group

Expanded trade, investment and tourism is what Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki hopes will result from his two-day official visit to Washington this week. "Let us make this a… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyans Leave U.S. Bemused at Continued Travel Warning

At White House State dinners, toasts are usually fluffy words of undying friendship before a convivial and elegant meal; but Kenya President Mwai Kibaki spoke bluntly Monday night,… Read more »

Kenya: Kibaki Fails to Persuade Bush to Lift Warning Against Kenya Travel

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was warmly welcomed at the White House by President George W. Bush Monday morning but at the end of the Oval office discussion that lasted almost an… Read more »

Kenya: US Will Help Improve Anti-Terror Defences, Bush Promises

Although Kenyans are anxious to see U.S. government warnings against travel to their country lifted, "at the moment, Kenya is a place where [U.S.] citizens should be wary of… Read more »

Liberia: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Just Doesn't Care About Liberia, Charges Congressman Payne

In an angry outburst, startling because it came from mild-mannered Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ), the New Jersey Democrat said that U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld,… Read more »

Mali: 'Japan Should Have a Security Council Seat,' Says President Toure

More than twenty African leaders gathered this week in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, for the third conference in ten years on development cooperation and partnership between Japan… Read more »

Africa: Panel Begins 'Bold' Examination of U. S. Policy Options

A 15-member panel drawn from government, nongovernmental and private sector institutions has began a review of U. S. policy towards Africa with the aim of making bold… Read more »

Africa: Kansteiner To Leave Top Africa Post, Key Embassies in Transition

Walter Kansteiner, the Bush administration's senior African policy official, is preparing to leave his post at the State Department after just over two years as assistant secretary… Read more »

Africa: Closing Address by Yoshiro Mori, Chairperson of Ticad III

Ladies and gentlemen, Read more »

South Africa: Japan a Vital Partner for Africa, Says Pretoria's Foreign Minister

South Africa is often cited - inside and outside the continent - as Africa's leading economy, as well as a major player in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad). Read more »

Ethiopia: Meles Defends Demand for New Ruling on Border With Eritrea

The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki are two of many African leaders who attended the opening ceremony in Japan of the third Tokyo… Read more »

Africa: Japan Pledges $1bn to Africa at Ticad 'Without Strings'

Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, opened a major conference Monday in Tokyo on development in Africa, with a billion dollar pledge in grant aid for the poorest continent… Read more »

Nigeria: Economic Reform is On Course, Says Obasanjo

Nigeria may be the giant of Africa and the world's sixth biggest exporter of crude oil but news on its economy is rarely reassuring. In recent years, daily reports have lamented… Read more »

West Africa: Nigeria Will Hand Over Charles Taylor, Predicts War Crimes Prosecutor

The ambitions of the now-exiled Liberian President Charles Taylor fueled Sierra Leone's long conflict, says David Crane, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations-created Special… Read more »

Africa: Plain Speaking from Ghana's Education Minister on Future of Africa’s Academia

How to improve tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa, and find ways to make it work, is the theme of a three-day conference being held in Accra, Ghana. Questions raised in the… Read more »

Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference

Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »

Africa: Ex-President Rawlings Challenges "Behavior" of African Men

Speaking at a Washington, D.C., dinner Friday night, former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said a significant part of the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa required targeting… Read more »

Africa: Cancun - Destined for Failure

When Kenyan and Ugandan delegations walked out of the World Trade Organisation's meeting on Sunday afternoon and Kenya's delegate George Odour Ong'wen declared to reporters that… Read more »

Africa: Protecting Communities to Protect the Planet

Delegates from over 170 countries are meeting this week in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the guiding principles of conservation and Protected Area management at the fifth World… Read more »

Africa: Africans Head for WTO With Low Expectations

African trade ministers and officials are approaching the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial talks that begin in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, with low expectations. Read more »

East Africa: Sudan Government, Rebels Still At Odds Over "Framework Document"

Speaking to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, representatives of the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army… Read more »

Liberia: Coalition Advocates U.S. Support for Liberian Peace and Reconstruction

The following letter, sent to President George W. Bush on August 14, has been released by Liberia Watch, a non-partisan, diverse coalition of civil society, including NGOs, private… Read more »