A Security Council draft resolution to impose severe sanctions on Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, and some of his closest allies was just vetoed by Russia and China. Both powers have argued that such measures are not necessary. Rarely do super-powers veto resolutions. However, the fragrant difference of opinion between the “West” and the “East” is [...]

The Carnegie Corporation-funded African Online Journal Archive is the first free-use scholarly content website to contain purely African material. The full-text repository will include journals containing important African research across a number of fields, including medicine, the social sciences and environment.

“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 [...]

Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.
Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate [...]

Imagine working with one of the several NGOs in Africa.
If what you see is an existence devoid of the little goodies of life, but full of anguish, dangerous encounters with wild animals and bandits, and popping dozens of preventive pills weekly.
Then you are way off mark! Expats can afford to eat sushis cooked [...]

June promises to be a good month for Africa, business wise.
The 8th Leon H. Sullivan Summit comes to Tanzania, Arusha (June 2 - 6, 2008). The Leon H. Sullivan Summit is named after the first African-American to sit on the board of a Fortune 500 company - together the world’s political and business leaders, [...]

International volunteer Kathryn Cunningham recruited her local community in Delaware, USA, to help power a local hospital in The Gambia using solar panels. Kathryn: “We started this project in October 2006 - our goal was to raise 300,000 for this project. We have raised 240,000 dollars so far..we will get there!”