Month: April 2006

Washington, 21 April, 2006— Top policymakers for Africa gathered at the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) April 20 to observe the swearing in of Katherine J. Almquist as mission director for […]

Washington, 22 April, 2006— Although corruption continues to be a factor in Kenya, a growing culture of political accountability slowly is taking hold, making it harder for politicians to “buy” elections, says that country’s former […]

Washinton, 18 April, 2006— A four-year-old U.S. program that leverages official foreign aid with private sector resources is bringing an increasing amount of investment and expertise to developing countries, says a top official of the […]

Washington, 18 April, 2006— The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has approved a two-year, $24.3 million Threshold Program with Zambia to fight corruption and improve government effectiveness, the corporation’s board of directors announced April 17. The […]

In his prophetic pre-coup (or pre-1966) novel titled “A Man of the People,” Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe observed perspicuously that the African politicians who replaced the British colonialists in Africa’s most populous country were hardly ever […]

Kinshasa, 13 April, 2006— Like other government institutions that were neglected during years of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the justice system is in dire need of reform. Since 2002, the […]

Johannesburg, 13 April, 2006— South Africa’s health minister is holding the media responsible for publicising former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s testimony in his rape trial, saying it might reverse gains made in HIV/AIDS awareness. A […]

Ndjamena, 14 April, 2006— Chad President Idriss Deby on Friday threatened to expel 200,000 Sudanese refugees sheltering in the east of the country after repeating accusations that Sudan supports rebels who launched a new offensive […]