Articles by ANA

Luanda, 4 September, 2008— Last-minute radio jingles have been trying to persuade people like Almerindo Malessu to vote on Friday but, like many other Angolans, the jobless father of two thinks the parliamentary elections – […]

Nairobi, 3 September, 2008— Rubbish is everywhere in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, just a few kilometres from the centre of Nairobi. It lies not just between the ramshackle dwellings, but often underneath them, rendering them […]

Dakar, 3 September, 2008— Experts say many of the right conditions are in place across West Africa to make cash distributions work in the current global food price crisis. Michael O’Donnell, head of hunger reduction […]

Karat, 3 September, 2008— The crowd that filled Konso Mekane Yesus primary school in Karat town, 600km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were not pupils, but hundreds of mothers and children forced by […]

Cotonou, 3 September, 2008— The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 500,000 people are at risk of additional flooding in Benin. WHO says expected storms, the number of people living in and near recently-flooded areas, coupled […]

Kufuor Discredits the Danquah-Busia Tradition By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. He started out on an auspicious note, after a longsuffering Ghanaian electorate, largely fed-up with the extortionate maladministration of the so-called Provisional National Democratic Congress […]

Lusaha, 3 July, 2008— The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive – denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital – and described South African President Thabo Mbeki’s minute […]

Harare, 27 June, 2008— Voting started at a slow pace on Friday in the capital, Harare, as Zimbabweans cast their ballots in a presidential run-off election boycotted by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). […]