Africa: Genocide Perpetrated By Mother Nature

As the AIDS toll mounted in Africa, health and development agencies around the world began to realize that their metrics for calculating progress needed a drastic overhaul. No… Read more »

Senegal: Some Success Fighting HIV/AIDS But "We Are Living A Tragedy In Africa Now," Says President

In the second part of his interview, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal discusses his nation's highly praised campaign against HIV/AIDS. According to the United Nations, Senegal… Read more »

Senegal: Investigation Into Killing Ordered

President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has been in power for almost one year, since defeating Abdou Diouf in March 2000. Diouf had been president of Senegal for 20 years and was… Read more »

Senegal: Students Force High-Level Response After Shooting

In the wake of a campus shooting, student leaders in Senegal have scheduled a gathering for Thursday at the national university to report to their constituents about their Tuesday… Read more »

Central Africa: A Moment For Peace?

Following visits to Washington and New York by two young leaders -- principal combatants in Africa’s largest conflict, U.S. officials and other specialists say they have guarded… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Global Media and BBC World Service Announce Collaboration

AllAfrica Global Media, which operates the leading Africa site on the World Wide Web, has signed a strategic agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Under the… Read more »

West Africa: Amputees Find Work, Aid in Sierra Leone

Victims of Sierra Leone's rebel terror campaign are being employeed by international agencies to help care for the flood of refugees returning home from camps in the unstable… Read more »

Africa: Black History Month: Book Illustrates Links Between US Movements And Africa

Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Beacon Press Order from Amazon.com Read more »

Africa: Africa Helped Shape Our Consciousness

Toward the end of the 1960s, many of us who had been involved in the southern civil rights movement were looking for ideas. New ideas seemed scarce in America just at the moment we… Read more »

Africa: Saying Africa is 'Undervalued', Senator to Ask Bush for Positive Signal of Interest

Although Africa has been "undervalued and underestimated," U.S. trade relations with the continent should experience a "dramatic increase", a leading Republican Senator told… Read more »

Guinea: Sierra Leone Refugees Face Hard Choices

More than 450,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia face life-and-death choices as conflict in their countries continues to spill across borders. Read more »

Mali: Mali Stumble As Africa Recovers In Meridian Cup

Mali have suffered another heavy defeat at the Under-17 Meridian Cup in Bari, as African teams revive from their nightmarish start against their European counterparts. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Clubs Ordered To Play Behind Closed Doors

The Zimbabwe Football Association has ordered three top clubs to play their first matches of the 2001 season in empty stadiums, following violent clashes that marred their games… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Despite Frustration, Some Hope Among Congo Exiles

The expected visit of Congo president Joseph Kabila to the United States for a prayer breakfast and consultations with White House, State department and United Nations officials,… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila To Visit U.S.

Joseph Kabila, the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will make a two-day visit to the United States the Department of State said Monday. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Refugees From Guinea Being Returned By Boat

Some 850 Sierra Leonean refugees are being assisted in their return home this weekend by two vessels belonging to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The first… Read more »

Guinea: "We Want To Go Home" Refugees Beg UNHCR

"We wan go, we wan go" is the chorus of fear and desperation, in adult and children's voices, that rings around Nyaedou Refugee Camp in southwestern Guinea. The refugees want to… Read more »

Guinea: Border Security Worsens, Refugees Trapped In War Zone

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Senegal: M'bow Of Senegal Among Schomburg Honorees

Professor Amadou Mahtar M'bow, former director of UNESCO, will be one of six persons honored during the 75th anniversary celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black… Read more »

Africa: Kabila Is Dead, Kinshasa Confirms: What Next?

The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have finally announced that President Laurent Désiré Kabila is dead. The long-awaited official declaration was broadcast on… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila's Fate Uncertain As Son Takes Charge

A day after he was apparently shot in his presidential palace there are still conflicting reports on the fate of Congo's President Laurent Kabila. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila Shooting Causes Confusion - Leadership Up For Grabs

The Democratic Republic of Congo - and several other African countries - have been thrown into a tailspin by news that the Congolese leader, Laurent Désiré Kabila, was shot on… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor's First Foreign Visit A Faux Pas?

Has Ghana’s new president put his foot in it, less than a week after he was sworn into office? Judging from reaction back home, his first foreign sortie - a visit across the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Shooting In Kinshasa, Fate Of Kabila Uncertain

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, President Laurent Kabila was reportedly shot during a 30-minute gun battle at the presidential palace. Wire services later reported a… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor's First Week

The people of Ghana are busy assessing the first week in power of President John Agyekum Kufuor who was sworn in on Sunday 7 January and immediately set to work. Read more »