Africa

Kenya Crisis Worsens As Second Opposition Lawmaker Is Gunned Down By Police

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kenya, Violence Kenya, Opposition Lawmaker Killed Kenya, Post-Election Violence, David Too, Raila Odinga, Africa, African Union, Politics News

ELDORET, Kenya — A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But ma...

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From the Heart of a Poet: Prayer Day for Kenya January 25th

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Kenya, Poetry, Africa, Living News
Tamsin Rothschild

In Africa / We call it desertifcation / The process whereby the desert devours the vegetation / Yielding wasteland. / Irreversible.

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Edwards, Not Obama, is Mr. Africa

Robert Naiman | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, International Monetary Fund, Dennis Kucinich, Africa, World Bank, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Imf, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Obama Africa, Politics News
Robert Naiman

It seems that unlike his Democratic rivals, Sen. Obama would not commit to $50 billion in new funding in coming years to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria.

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Last-minute holiday gift: Save a life

Jay Winsten | Posted 12.21.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Malaria, Angelina Jolie, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, Quincy Jones, Entertainment News
Jay Winsten

A while ago, MTV produced a remarkable video diary of Angelina Jolie traveling through Africa with economist Jeffrey Sachs to support Sachs' mission ...

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Who Are These People?

Jane Smiley | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fertilizer, Starvation, Farming, Hunger, Africa, Famine, Malawi, World Bank, Free Market, Capitalism, Obesity, Politics News
Jane Smiley

The World Bank opposes fertilizer subsidies in order to -- well, it boggles the mind. In order to what? Get rid of the population? Degrade the soil beyond repair? I cannot think of any other reasons.

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World AIDS Day: Putting a Human Face on the Numbers

Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, Anti-Retroviral, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Aids, Aids Epidemic in Africa, HIV/AIDS Africa, World AIDS Day, Politics News
Josh Ruxin

The real question this World AIDS Day is not, "how did we miscount the infected by 6 million?" but rather, "how did we allow another 2.1 million to perish from a treatable disease?"

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Violence Against Women in the D.R. Congo: The Most Horrible Thing You Will Read Today -- And, Unfortunately, Perhaps The Last You'll Hear Of It For Weeks

Bob Harris | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Violence Against Women, Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Genocide, Femicide, Violence, Media, Media Bias, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo Media Coverage, Politics News
Bob Harris

Many Westerners have heard next to nothing about the violence in the D. R. Congo, despite the fact that its aftermath is still deadlier on a daily basis than all other current wars on earth combined.

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How to Write About Terrible Things: An Interview With Dan Hoyle, Author and Performer of Tings Dey Happen.

Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Tings Dey Happen, Chevron, Playwriting, Off-Broadway, Africa, Creative Community, Writing, Globalization, Theater, Artists, Oil Politics, Peace Corps, Foreign Policy, Art, Dan Hoyle, Theatre, Oil, Political Corruption, Political Correctness, Fulbright, Niger, Escravos, Nigeria, Entertainment News
Justin Hudnall

Thankfully, there are artists like Dan Hoyle, a white guy who went to Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship to make a play about oil politics and globalization.

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How Do You Redeem Sacred Ground?

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Africa Slaves, Trip to Africa, Slaves, Zanzibar, Africa, Living News
Cathleen Falsani

Stone Town, Zanzibar -- It was hard to see the hallowed ground for all the minibuses full of tourists jockeying for position.

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The Sordid History of Human Intelligence Goes On

Peter Sacks | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: James Watson, Nobel Prizes, Africa, Politics News
Peter Sacks

Upon what scientific basis did James Watson, the eminent scientist, make his claim about differences in intelligence between Africans and those of European descent?

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An Ignored Buffett Investment

John Sauer | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Africa Water Shortage, Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Africa Water Crisis, Howard Buffet, Water Crisis, Gates Foundation, Politics News
John Sauer

With last week's news cycles, it's no surprise that there was scant coverage of Howard G. Buffet's $150 million commitment to alleviate the water crisis in East and West Africa and Central America.

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Vasco's Story: Running to Stand Still

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Trip to Africa, AIDS Orphans, Malawi, Children in Africa, Africa, Living News
Cathleen Falsani

After about three weeks of keeping my head and heart in check while traveling through east Africa, I did exactly what they said not to do. I fell in love.

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To Ensure Health and Increase Growth, Bring Population Under Control

Allan Rosenfield and Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Thailand Population Control, Population, Rwanda, Africa Issues, Thailand Family Planning, Catholic Church Rwanda, International Family Planning, Opt-Out Family Planning, Population in Africa, Aids Epidemic in Africa, AIDS Orphans, Thailand, Family Planning in Africa, AIDS in Africa, Catholic Church, Sub-Saharan Africa, Population Control, Africa, Contraception Africa, Paul Kagame, Health in Africa, Politics News
Allan Rosenfield and Josh Ruxin

Best known for the genocide that overwhelmed it 13 years ago, Rwanda may seem an unlikely source of leadership in population growth.

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World Food Day: Weathering The Storm

Josette Sheeran | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Africa, Darfur, United Nations, Food, World Food Programme, World Food Day, Humanitarian Aid, Hunger, Politics News
Josette Sheeran

As we pause on World Food Day there are more than 850 million chronically hungry people worldwide. And the sad reality is that it is about to get worse.

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SCHIP for Africa: Drop the Debt for Kids' Health

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush SCHIP, Jubilee Act, Africa, Debt Cancellation, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Politics News
Robert Naiman

The Jubilee Act of 2007 would cancel the debts of up to 25 additional countries not currently eligible for debt cancellation.

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No Hope, New Hope

Jay Winsten | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Malaria, Africa, Children's Health, Nick Kristoff, Politics News
Jay Winsten

At a cost of $10 each, insecticide-treated bed nets kill or incapacitate malaria-carrying mosquitoes that are active primarily at night.

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Making Hope Happen In South Africa

Angela Larkan | Posted 10.05.2007 | Living

Read More: South Africa, Aids Epidemic in Africa, Africa, Tanda, Make a Difference, Living News
Angela Larkan

I had watched them suffer under apartheid, I had watched them as apartheid fell, and I knew their hope for the future when Mandela was elected. Now this had come.

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Zimbabwe To Introduce New Currency As Record Inflation Continues

Al Jazeera | Posted 10.01.2007 | Home

Read More: Currency, Zimbabwe, Africa, Monetary Policy, Inflation, Home News

Zimbabwe is to introduce a new currency by the end of the year in an attempt to control the country's extreme rate of inflation, the governor of the c...

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Fighting Al Qaeda In Africa

Austin Merrill | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Timbuktu, Africa, Algeria, War on Terror, Mali, Islamic Radicalism, African Politics, Politics News
Austin Merrill

To get an in-depth look at American military activity in the Sahara, I went to Timbuktu, Mali, was embedded with U.S. Special Forces.

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UN Rushes To Contain Outbreak Of Ebola Virus In Central Congo

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home

Read More: Virus, Disease, Outbreak, Africa, Ebola, Congo, Home News

United Nations officials reported an outbreak of Ebola virus in central Congo today and were rushing supplies and doctors into the region to contain t...

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