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A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital Friday to fight a disease that kills 2,000 children a day.
Political scientists define a mature democracy as a country that has had two peaceful transfers of power from one democratically elected head of state to another. By that definition, only a handful of Africa's 54 nations can be classified as full-fledged democracies.
Political scientists use a simple litmus test to determine if a country has a mature democracy: Has it had not just one — but two — successful handovers of power from one legitimately elected leader to another?
Where is Europe's Barack Obama? Not only are droves of Europeans hoping for a victory by the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, many are asking when France, Germany or Britain will get a chance to cast a ballot for a leader from their own burgeoning minorities.
Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."
France's first immigration minister claimed success Thursday for his no-nonsense policy on illegal immigration, saying the number of expulsions increased 80 percent this year while the number of people living illegally went down.
President Bush offered encouragement and help Thursday to lift this shattered country from years of ruinous fighting as he concluded a tour of Africa and turned toward other global problems.
President Bush said Wednesday that talk of the United States building new military bases in Africa to expand its influence is "baloney."
President Bush is betting Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than it does from down the street in Washington.
In a humid rehearsal studio, Liberia's pop queen is practicing her newest single — a song called "Thank you" to be released for President Bush's visit here next week.
Many of the world's poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the U.N. food agency said.
In one of this city's relatively posh neighborhoods, there is a compound full of specialists.
A French journalist and nine Africans have been arrested and charged with multiple crimes, including threatening state security, a prosecutor said Thursday.
A court will hear a case against the former military leader of Ivory Coast's northern rebels and 12 others suspected in connection with an alleged 2003 plot against President Laurent Gbagbo's government, judicial officials said Thursday.
The United Nations proposed Wednesday that nations invest $10 billion a year in supplying clean water and sanitation for the third of the planet's population who lacks them.
Togolese voted Sunday in legislative elections that no opposition members boycotted for the first time in nearly a decade, a hopeful sign for democracy in this West African nation that has been ruled by one family for 40 years.
Bob Denard, a mercenary who staged coups, battled communism and fought for French interests and his own across Africa for more than three decades, has died, his sister said Sunday. He was 78.
Beatles lovers who seek out Penny Lane imagine it as that magical place "in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies." But it has a sinister undertone that still reverberates.
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela achieved its objective at the United Nations by preventing Washington's preferred candidate from winning a seat on the U.N. Security Council.
Over the past 10 years, more than a dozen countries have made it easier to get abortions, and women from Mexico to Ireland have mounted court challenges to get access to the procedure.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in two more Nigerian states, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday, a day after the country reported the first known outbreak of the virus in Africa.
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