Text of the Sixth Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture Presented by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf:
Our revered President Mandela, our sister Graça Machel, distinguished ladies and gentlemen:
What an honor it is to be standing before His Excellency, Nelson Mandela, to deliver the 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture here at Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto. [...]

As everyone knows, news from China is not really being broadcasted around the world in real time.
From a direct source from Beijing I found out something rather…surprising. Since the Beijing Olympic Games are about to start, the local government decided to organize police raids to arrest the drug dealers selling cocaine and heroin in [...]

Fast Company has a six-part series on China’s incursion into Africa. Excerpt:
While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China’s leadership isn’t taking any chances. In just a [...]

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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In October the International Peace Operations Association, IPOA, the trade association that lobbies for mercenaries, will meet in Washington DC for their 2008 Annual Convention. The theme of their annual conference is: Engaging AFRICOM
In Dogs of War: Back to Africa, David Isenberg asks:
Where does the future lie for the private military industry? (When) Iraq, [...]

Africa is emerging as a new landscape that no-one could have predicted a decade ago: Telephony has assumed power politics dimensions.

“I want to hold the G8 countries to their promise. When you sign a contract, you absolutely must stick to it.” - Angelique Kidjo.
The Group of Eight (G8) aid to Africa will fall $40 billion short of the Gleneagles pledge under current plans, according to a report last month by an Africa Progress Panel, which [...]