Africa News Report is a specialist information dossier dedicated to providing news information and analysis from a diplomatic and political perspective. Topics covered include some of the most pressing health, economic, political and social issues. Besides bringing its multi-facetted news, views and analysis to the fore, Africa News Report seeks to highlight the United States’ policies and positions on diverse issues affecting the African continent.
Africa News Report
Somalia: Rebuilding a stateless country’s piracy-driven economy
Maritime piracy costs the global economy between $7 billion and $12 billion annually, and since January 2010 pirates working from ports in Somalia have...
US-Nigeria: ‘Trajectory of bad elections’ should be checked
The top U.S. diplomat to Africa urged Nigerians to demonstrate their ability to hold fair and democratic elections as the country prepares for legislative,...
Mozambique: Brazil and U.S. join in cooperative development program
Mozambique has lots of fertile land and access to the region’s major rivers. Yet the country imports most of its food, much of it...
Clean water for rural Ethiopia
After Lori Pappas first arrived in the Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia three years ago, the first thing she did was conduct a...
Ghana: Pure Home Water for the north
According to the World Health Organization, diseases associated with unsafe water claim the lives of about 2 million people worldwide every year, most of...
Customized inventions for Africa gaining ground
In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS...
Ivory Coast: Both Gbagbo and Ouattarra isolated?
Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters have grown increasingly isolated in Côte d’Ivoire, says the U.S. ambassador to the west African country, Phillip Carter.
There is...
From Negro History Week to Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves in Virginia, realized that the struggles and achievements of Americans of African descent were being ignored...
A remodeled Marshall Plan for Africa?
The Marshall Plan — the world’s most successful aid project — revived post–World War II Europe by fostering entrepreneurs and local businesses. William Duggan,...
Côte d’Ivoire: Laurent and Simone Gbagbo under financial sanctions
The United States has imposed financial sanctions against former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo, his wife, Simone Gbagbo, and three members of his inner...
Millions in Tanzania and Malawi using mobile phone banking
In African countries such as Tanzania and Malawi, mobile telephones are taking a first step into the formal financial system. Almost 1 million active...
African entrepreneurship and private equity gather international interest
“From that very modest beginning, he has had a series of steppingstones where one thing has led to another. Now Austin’s company has revenues...
U.S. Columbia Business School’s focus on Africa
Africa is coming onto the world business stage and, for that reason, it is ultimately up to the private sector and its most important...
African stocks triple on international exchanges
NYSE Euronext Inc. — the home of the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges — has seen a threefold increase in the trading...
Ethiopia and Niger get $84 million agricultural assistance
The development agenda set by the G20 leaders at their meeting in Seoul, South Korea, November 12, calls for members to help countries reduce...
U.S. could remove Sudan from terror list
The United States has conditioned its willingness to accelerate the process of removing Sudan from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism provided that...
African Health Care needs “Paradigm Shift”
A “paradigm shift” is needed in health care in Africa to include greater focus on the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases like diabetes...
Sustainable environmental development in Africa gets international backing
South African researchers are benefitting from a unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe that is sending more than 30 terabytes...
U.S. – Africa flights “tripled in size in three years”
With air traffic between the United States and Africa growing at more than 5 percent annually, the United States air carrier Delta Air Lines...
African penguin gets a new lease of life
The African penguin, a bird native to Namibia and South Africa, is now listed as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act...
Africa to get ready for heavy international investments
Africa is the “last frontier of international investment,” and Africans need to be ready to make choices and take action to take advantage of...
Africa’s high return rate for the “frontier market investor”
Africa is the place to go for the “frontier market investor” who is seeking a new investment venue with a high rate of return,...
Saving Africa’s lands from ever encroaching desert
The United Nations has designated 2010−2020 as the decade to raise public awareness of the threat posed by worsening drought and human mismanagement of...
U.S. “not choosing sides” in Sudan’s “make or break” period
The current period leading up to the January 9, 2011, referendum on Southern Sudanese independence presents “a make-or-break period for Sudan,” U.S. Special Envoy...
Uganda’s new solar ovens
An immigrant from Uganda now residing in Chicago has used the first portion of a $100,000 business competition prize he won in January to...
Hilary Clinton condemns mass rapes in DRC
Reports that between 150 and 200 women and children were raped by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prompted pledges...
Confronting one of the world’s number one killers
The floods in Pakistan and droughts in sub-Saharan Africa are the bookends around the lethal hardships that millions around the globe live with daily:...
Discovering John H. Johnson: An African-American media mogul
In his autobiography, Succeeding Against the Odds, John H. Johnson, an African American who overcame poverty to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in...
Rwanda attracts mixed feelings over progress
Rwanda’s progress since the genocide of 1994 has been remarkable and is a testament to the people in facing and overcoming staggering challenges, a...
African youth urged to challenge their governments
Three U.S. lawmakers have urged more than 100 young activists from Africa to continue to challenge their governments to increase their transparency, accountability and...