African Leaders Agree To Create An Emergency Military Force

A pan-continental force is to be set up to tackle rebellions and coups d'etat in Africa. Picture: UN/Reuters African Leaders Create Emer...

Africa's Energy Demands Are Starting To Skyrocket

Africa's Energy Consumption Growing Fastest In World -- Christian Science Monitor Africa's energy demands are skyrocketing, but with...

No African Leader Deemed Worthy Of Leadership Award This Year

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance gives each African country a score for overall governance based on various categories No African Lea...

Growing Unrest In West Africa

Summer Of Siege For West Africa As Discontent Boils Into Street -- New York Times DAKAR, Senegal — Tear gas fired on hundreds of demonstrato...

Religion and Climate Change Fuel Chaos in Sahel

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Africa's Belt of Misery: Religion and Climate Change Fuel Chaos in Sahel -- Spiegel Online Bloody conflicts ...

Hope In Africa

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Africa’s Hopeful Economies: The Sun Shines Bright -- The Economist The continent’s impressive growth looks likel...

Is Africa Selling The Farm?

Hunger And Food Security: Is Africa Selling The Farm? Foreign investors see Africa as a breadbasket. Done well, investment could help with A...

Will Higher Education Transform Africa

Transforming Africa Through Higher Education -- New York Times DOHA, QATAR — When Patrick Awuah left his native Ghana in 1985 to study abroa...

The Story Of A Brutal African War Lord Who Now Wants Redemption

War and peace: Former African warlord Pator Joshua Milton Blahyi chats to Edna Fernandes Face To Face With General Butt Naked - 'The Mos...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Warns Of War Over Control Of The River Nile

Image from Elias Kifle Ethiopia PM Warns Of Nile War -- Al Jazeera Meles Zenawi said Egypt could not win a war over the Nile river, and accu...

African Union Now Focusing On Terror Groups

Al Shabab Terror Attacks Dominate African Union Summit -- Christian Science Monitor The African Union summit got underway Sunday in Kampala,...

The Growth Of Al Qaeda In Africa

In Attack, al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group Expands Reach -- Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—In claiming responsibility for Sunday's deadly b...

50 Years Of African Independence Has Brought Civil War, Famine, Dictatorship, Ethnic And Tribal Strife, Genocide, And Failed States

Click Image to Enlarge African States Weigh 50 Bittersweet Years of Independence -- New York Times DAKAR, Senegal — In a fancy resort on the...

Counterterrorism Training In Africa

A Malian soldier stood with US military personnel during an Operation Flintlock ceremony May 3. African, European, and North American partic...

U.S. Military Strategy For Africa Stresses Partnership Not Intervention

Photo: Major General William Garrett, commander of U.S. Army Africa ( Wikipedia ) From War Is Boring: The emerging U.S. military strategy f...

Al Qaeda In North Africa Is Becoming A Permanent Fact

Photo supplied by the Gerardmer-Tidarmene association shows Pierre Camatte (R) posing with an unidentified man. Photo AFP Terror Threat in N...

How The West's Financial System Assists Corrupt African Despots

Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon until his death last year, was said to have brought $1m to the US in shrink-wrapped $100 notes. His daugh...

How African Land Disputes Lead To War

Land scarcity is at the root of conflicts in Darfur. Reuters/FILE Africa's Continental Divide: Land Disputes -- Christian Science Monito...

AU Summit Begins IN The Ethiopian Capital Of Addis Ab

African Summit Hears World Ignoring Somalia Crisis -- Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The worsening crisis in Somalia is as big a threat to ...

A Roadmap To Properly Train An Army In Africa? (And Maybe Afghanistan's)

Liberian fighting force prepared to find thrust from the people they servered. Army base. Gbarnga, Bong County, Liberia. (Photo form Flickr ...