The African Union (AU) is reportedly calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to suspend indictments against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is charged with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur. Peter Clottey/VOA
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Africa researcher Emira Woods of Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies has been following the Liberian leader’s efforts to raise conditions for African rulers to achieve power and govern their people through democratic means. She points out that Mrs. Sirleaf is one of a growing number of African voices to speak out for the people of [...]

Economic experts at World Economic Forum held in South Africa in June believes the global food crisis can be solved, and at the same time African countries can prosper, if the world invests in Africa’s agricultural sector. Terry FitzPatrick / VOA reports:
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Podcast: Community leaders in Nigeria’s restive oil-rich Niger Delta have unanimously rejected a government-proposed summit aimed at resolving the military crisis in the region.
Lidum Mitte the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People offers some insight why the summit is rejected: Previous summits had been reduced to mere “talk shops” [...]

A spokesman for Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has rejected criticism of the country’s presidential election, saying those who call the vote illegitimate can ‘go hang’.
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PODCAST: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has been warmly welcomed at a summit of African leaders, despite international concerns about the legitimacy of his re-election. From the summit in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, VOA’s Peter Heinlein reports that in their opening speeches, Mr. Mugabe’s colleagues offered only gentle criticism of the conduct of the election, and none [...]

PODCAST: The chief of the new U.S. military command for Africa [AFRICOM] says he will invite African military officers to serve at his headquarters, once the operation gets up and running. VOA Pentagon Correspondent Al Pessin interviewed the commander, General William Ward.
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