Africa

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Fix PEPFAR Now to Prevent HIV Infections, Save Lives

Scott Swenson | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, HIV/AIDS, Congress, Sen. Jon Kyl, Africa, Global Poverty, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Epidemic in Africa, President Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Pepfar, Politics News

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is moving toward a cloture vote in the Senate, a vote that will determine whether the $50 bil...

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Darfur: Searching for a Peace Process

John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Mediation, Darfur Sudan, Sudan, Africa, United Nations, Genocide, Home News

To anyone tracking the international community's muddled efforts to broker peace in Darfur, last week's decision to appoint a new mediator, Burkina Fa...

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G-8 summit opens with spotlight on aid for Africa

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: G-8 Summit, Group of Eight Nations, Africa, Africa Aid, Politics News

RUSUTSU, Japan — Aid for Africa _ and whether enough was coming from the world's major economic powers _ was in the spotlight Monday as the Grou...

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My Conversation with Naguib Sawiris

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Egypt, Charlie Rose, Africa, Middle East, Mobile, Cellphone, Naguib Sawiris, Asia, Technology, Orascom, Business News

I talked with Egyptian billionaire and telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris recently. He's Chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the biggest ...

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Washington's Hypocrisy Over African Dictatorships

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Zimbabwe, Dictatorship, Equatorial Guinea, Africa, Robert Mugabe, Politics News

Despite claims of support for the advancement of democracy, the United States continues to support other African dictatorships that are as bad as or even worse than that of Zimbabwe.

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Troubling Signs: Can The G8 Be Trusted to Deliver on Their Promises?

Josh Lozman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Development, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, Aids Research, The Giving Life, Africa, Africa Foreign Aid, Development, G8 Nations, Politics News

Despite great progress, there are still nearly 5 million people on the continent that are in need of AIDS treatment in order to stay alive. No wonder the G8 wants to hide from their earlier promises.

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A Triangle of Human Suffering

Mia Farrow | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Russia, Car Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Chad, United Nations, Central African Republic, Darfur, Third World Countries, Lord's Resistance Army, Car, Genocide, Africa, Lra, China, Politics News

As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.

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Gorillas: 20, Humans: $25,000

Josh Ruxin | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Microfinance, Ecotourism, Africa, Science, Gorillas, Business News

The gorilla population in 1978 had dwindled to 262. Today's population is up over 400. That's an extraordinary accomplishment for a slow-reproducing large mammal. How did this happen?

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What Africa Expects from Barack Obama

Rachel Sterne | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, Africa, Home News

The premise of a Barack Obama presidency brings great expectations from Africa. GroundReport Kenyan journalist Fred Obera explores why. "Africa is h...

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The Diamond Empowerment Fund

Russell Simmons | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Diamonds, South Africa, Diamond Empowerment Fund, Russell Simmons, Africa, Meditation, Africa Dimonds, Living News

After being with the Maharishi Institute students in South Africa, practicing transcendental meditation together and speaking with them about their lives and where they want to go, I am more inspired than ever.

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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UN Needs to Lead New Uganda Peace Strategy

John Prendergast | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Uganda, Joaquim Chissano, Joseph Kony, Africa, United Nations, Lord's Resistance Army, Lra, Politics News

The Lord's Resistance Army is creating havoc and abducting children in four countries in central Africa. A new strategy is needed to end the ongoing threat they pose to international peace and security.

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No More Negotiations

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda, Peacekeeping, Joseph Kony, Africa, War Crimes, United Nations, Politics News

Uganda hasn't attracted the attention of any celebrities, but the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army has raped, mutilated, and killed thousands of the nation's citizens.

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Darkening Continent?

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Diamonds, Environment, King Solomon's Mines, Africa, Climate Change, United Nations, Politics News

Though diamonds still excite the most headlines about the political and environmental degradation of Africa, a new atlas illuminates the toll the most recent four decades of exploitation have taken on the continent.

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Africa is No More "Overpopulated" Than Iraq Was a Haven for WOMD: Do the Math

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: United Nations, National Geographic, Africa, Oil, Conservation, Minerals, Congo, Strategic Interests, Depopulation Politics, Green News

Africa is no more the "Dark Continent" and overpopulated than Iraq was a haven for weapons of mass destruction. I just hate it when I am bamboozled...

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Saving Lives Costs Money

Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, Africa AIDS Epidemic, Charity, Aids Medication, Africa AIDS Aid Money, Africa, Politics News

The AIDS pandemic is the greatest public health challenge the world has ever faced -- but the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a public-private partnership, is working.

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

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Liberia's Peace Women: Tribeca 2008 Remembers What the World Overlooked in 2003

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Civil War, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Africa, Liberia, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Harvard, Women Directors, Women in Africa, Politics News

How was it possible that these Liberian women had accomplished such an enormous feat without having been noticed and reported on by the news outlets I had come to know and trust?

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Debunking Africa's Witchcraft Myth

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Marc Kielburger, Africa, Craig Kielburger, Aids, Health, Witchcraft, Home News

Eunice Kimutai doesn't believe in witches. The trouble is, some in her community do. A retired school teacher near Tanzania's western border, Kimut...

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Africa's Iraq

John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Somalia Airstrikes, Ethiopia, Africa, Iraq War, Somalia, Iraq, Politics News

The parallels between Iraq and Somalia are striking. Both countries were invaded on national security grounds and invading power lacked a post-war political strategy.

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Dear Madonna

MacDonald Chuma | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Malawi Workers, Africa, Madonna, Aids, Malawi, Politics News

The best way to end AIDS in Malawi is to give the workers in our country a chance to earn the dignity that a good job should provide.

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Anniversary of a Massacre Foretold

Bryan Mealer | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peacekeepers, Congolese Children, Congo War, Rape, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations, Gold, Minerals, Hema, Lendu, Bunia, Politics News

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the fall of Bunia, a tiny trading town in northeastern Congo where over 500 people were massacred by ethnic militia in a blood spree for gold and plunder.

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Pomegranates Mean Prosperity

Josh Ruxin | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Microfinance, Africa, Business News

With the growing trends in consumption of super foods in their raw and processed form, investment in pomegranates can provide a great return.

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Africa Goes Wireless

Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Mobile Phones Africa, Cell Phones Africa, Cellphone Use Africa, Tony Blair Commission for Africa, Tony Blair, Cellphone Towers Africa, Commission for Africa, Africa, Living News

From Angola to Zambia, cell phone towers are now as much a part of the landscape as acacia trees and zebra herds. In fact, Africa is the world's fastest growing cell phone market.

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Never Again: How Obscenely Disingenuous Those Fine Words Sound Today

Mia Farrow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mia Farrow Darfur, Africa, Darfur, Darfur Olympics, China Darfur, Chad, China, Mia Farrow Africa, China Sudan, Mia Farrow, Politics News

There is now one thing that China holds more dear than it's unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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