March 27, 2001
Africa: World Bank Abandoning Structural Adjustment Approach
In a new report called "Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies," the World Bank says imposing conditions to "coerce" African nations to reform in exchange for aid… Read more »
March 23, 2001
Sudan: Bipartisan Effort to End War and Slavery Promised
Bipartisan Congressional voices denounced Sudan's government at a press conference in Washington D.C., Thursday, and called for sanctions against the north-east African nation… Read more »
South Africa: White Anxiety About Zimbabwe Reveals Race Prejudice, Says Mbeki
In a toughly-worded letter published Friday in the African National Congress online journal, ANC Today, South African President Thabo Mbeki blasted whites agitated by the land… Read more »
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Images, March 2000
As a photographer, I was asked to go to Ethiopia in March 2000 by Food for the Hungry, an established non-profit NGO that has been involved in relief and development projects… Read more »
March 21, 2001
Africa: 'In 25 Years, Half the World Will Be Short of Water'
The World Resources Institute in Washington DC has warned that the world's freshwater systems are in peril. It predicts that "by 2025, at least 3.5 billion people or nearly 50… Read more »
Africa: Africa News From The U.S. Congress
The key legislation among the almost one dozen bills concerning Africa introduced in Congress since the beginning of the year target the conflict over intellectual and property… Read more »
March 20, 2001
Nigeria: NNPC Boss Calls for Indigenous Firms' Involvement in Marginal Fields
Indigenous oil firms should be allowed to participate actively in the development of marginal oil fields, Jackson Gaius-Obaseki, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National… Read more »
March 19, 2001
Equatorial Guinea: President in Washington DC to Win US Embassy
On a week long "personal" visit to the United States, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is telling everyone who will listen that his nation needs a US… Read more »
West Africa: Ambassadors Expelled from Liberia, Gbagbo and Ouattara Meet
The ambassadors of Guinea and Sierra Leone have been ordered out of Liberia by Charles Taylor as border hostilities continue. Read more »
Nigeria: Deepwater Oil Production in Sight as Companies Intensify Activities
The announcement Thursday by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company that it had signed contracts for the development of its Bonga oil field signifies the intensity of… Read more »
March 15, 2001
South Africa: Drug Company Makes Key Concession in Generic Drug Dispute
As part of what it calls an "accelerated program to fight HIV/Aids in Africa," the international pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has decided not to fight the manufacture… Read more »
March 14, 2001
West Africa: 'Charles Taylor is a Regional Danger' Say Legislators
Testifying before a crowded Congressional hearing, Senator Russ Feingold (D - WI) placed the Liberian regime of Charles Taylor "at the heart" of a "deeply disturbing trend"… Read more »
March 13, 2001
Nigeria: First Phase of Privatisation to be Completed Next Week
Processes involved in the first phase of Nigerias privatisation will be completed next week, with the allotment of shares in the companies involved, the Director General of the… Read more »
March 09, 2001
Nigeria: Views Differ On Planned Deregulation Policy
Different viewpoints met head on Friday as Nigeria's Senate began public hearings on the planned deregulation of petroleum products pricing. Read more »
Africa: Powell Selects Kansteiner for Africa Post
Secretary of State Colin Powell has tapped Walter H. Kansteiner III, who served on the former Bush foreign policy team, for the department's senior Africa post. Read more »
March 08, 2001
South Africa: How to Rock the Boat Without Tipping it Over - The Challenge for Women
On the occasion of International Women's Day, South Africa's ambassador to Washington D.C., Sheila Sisulu, granted allAfrica.com an interview about the progress - or otherwise - of… Read more »
Africa: World Bank, IMF Strike Optomistic Tone On Economic Progess
Africa is positioned for significant economic and social progress as leaders on the continent step forward to shoulder responsibility for improving conditions, said World Bank and… Read more »
March 07, 2001
Nigeria: Bullish Market Defies High Interest Rate Offered by the Central Bank
Expectations of high returns on stocks and investor confidence in some sectors have buoyed the Nigerian capital market, despite efforts by the countrys central bank to mop up… Read more »
March 06, 2001
South Africa: Drug Companies Refused to Talk to Us, Says Ambassador
According to Sheila Sisulu, South African Ambassador to the United States, her government has always been willing to talk with pharmaceutical companies opposed to 1997 legislation… Read more »
March 05, 2001
Africa: AllAfrica Global Media and Afcom International Agree to an Alliance
AllAfrica Global Media, the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide, has signed a strategic agreement with Afcom International, a Fairfax, VA based… Read more »
South Africa: Marchers Protest International Pharmaceutical Giants As Drug Companies Go To Court
As several thousand AIDS activists took to the streets of Pretoria carrying signs that said "Lives before profits," global drug giants went to court seeking to prevent the South… Read more »
March 04, 2001
Africa: Coveted Fespaco Prize Goes to Moroccan Director
The moving and gut-wrenching tale of survival among a group of grubby, smelly street children in Casablanca, Morocco - who beg, sell cigarettes and homemade shell necklaces, sniff… Read more »
March 03, 2001
Africa: Tensions Cloud Last Days of Film Festival
The 17th edition of Fespaco, the pan African festival of film and television in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - and the largest such event on the continent -- is coming to the end… Read more »
March 02, 2001
Nigeria: Workers Threaten Renewed Conflict Over Fuel Price Hikes
The Nigerian authorities may clash yet again with workers over a planned deregulation of the oil industry, seen now by ordinary Nigerians as just another name for price increases… Read more »
Nigeria: "Significant" Progress Against Drug Traffickers, Says State Department Official
Although Nigeria remains a "worldwide hub" of narcotics trafficking and money-laundering, last year "it made a significant step forward," in the international war against… Read more »
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