At first, the children's eyes light up with anticipation.
African Voices catch up with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, Africa's man of letters. A contender for the title of Africa's most widely read novelist, his first work "Things Fall Apart" has been translated into 40 languages.
Fifteen first ladies from African nations will attend a two-day summit in Los Angeles on health, women's issues and HIV/AIDS, organizers said Friday.
He's a billionaire from a humble background who mixes with celebrities and presidents, but his main cause is far from glamorous. Keeping a relatively low profile, he's at the forefront of two revolutions in Africa: first he transformed the continent's mobile phone service, now he's on a mission to promote democracy and reshape Africa's landscape once again.
CNN International's new show, "African Voices," highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera.
A continent best known for its symptoms of morbid decline is doing remarkably well by measure of economic growth and good governance
A new program backed by one of the richest men in the world promises to shake up food aid
Boosting connectivity should do the same to the continent's social and economic health, granting citizens access to crucial online health, education and government services
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
Nowhere is the need for cheaper, renewable energy more apparent than Africa. There, the poorest villagers huddle around candles because even kerosene is too expensive.
At first, the children's eyes light up with anticipation.
African Voices catch up with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, Africa's man of letters. A contender for the title of Africa's most widely read novelist, his first work "Things Fall Apart" has been translated into 40 languages.
Fifteen first ladies from African nations will attend a two-day summit in Los Angeles on health, women's issues and HIV/AIDS, organizers said Friday.
He's a billionaire from a humble background who mixes with celebrities and presidents, but his main cause is far from glamorous. Keeping a relatively low profile, he's at the forefront of two revolutions in Africa: first he transformed the continent's mobile phone service, now he's on a mission to promote democracy and reshape Africa's landscape once again.
CNN International's new show, "African Voices," highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera.
A continent best known for its symptoms of morbid decline is doing remarkably well by measure of economic growth and good governance
A new program backed by one of the richest men in the world promises to shake up food aid
Boosting connectivity should do the same to the continent's social and economic health, granting citizens access to crucial online health, education and government services
I was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.
Nowhere is the need for cheaper, renewable energy more apparent than Africa. There, the poorest villagers huddle around candles because even kerosene is too expensive.
Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests
The abduction of two Austrian tourists has raised concerns about the upsurge in extremist activity in north Africa
It was a woman's raw, bleeding hands that led Jock Brandis to make a promise.
President Bush sought Wednesday to dispel rumors that the U.S. plans to bring "all kinds of military to Africa," saying that is "simply not true."
On his trip, the President highlights his success in fighting AIDS -- but avoids hot spots where his legacy is more vexed
Read the news about civil war in Kenya, unrest in Chad, or genocide in Darfur, and you could conclude that Africa is no place to invest money.
President George W. Bush focused on a low-tech way to save the lives of African children Monday as he and first lady Laura Bush toured a Tanzanian clinic.
The North African country with the fastest growth rate in tourism sent out a clear message that its own private sector will now play a more prominent role in developing its all-important travel industry, indicating that it is ready to use expertise acquired over several decades of steady growth to spearhead new initiatives that would put a large number of unknown sub-Saharan countries on the map.
This week on Inside Africa, we meet some people who are performing good works in Africa - including an African singing legend, an Austrian actor and even the U.S. military.
The E.U. and Africa prepare to talk trade at this weekend's summit, but a key player won't be present -- China, whose emergence has given Africa more leverage than ever in dealing with its former colonizers
The rainy season in Africa has led to the drowning of 10,000 wildebeest, one percent of the animals on the continent
I think I'm slowly getting used to the concept of "Africa time" as it's been explained to me -- i.e. everything's a long way apart and nothing happens quickly. So again, the initial days at work were spent acclimatizing, this time to our new place, car and office.
Millions of us in the developed world live in what many call "throw-away" societies, where the food we waste could in many cases feed entire third world nations.
The continent has been ravaged by months of rain. Is it paying for the sins of rich countries?
They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains.
Da-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah. It's the little riff that plays right before "American Idol" starts.
Richard M. Kavuma, from Uganda, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African journalism awards ceremony.
The scandal-ridden departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank doesn't end its crisis. The trouble runs deeper.
Global mobile phone use will top 3.25 billion - equivalent to around half the world's population - in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday.
Her plane is called Bright Star. When I settle into my seat in the back of the 757, I can tell immediately this is going to be different from traveling with the president.
One dollar. It's the cost of a New York Times, less than half a cup of coffee at Starbucks. These days it's a paltry sum. Even less when you consider that right now, a billion people are struggling to survive on less than one dollar a day. This is what defines "extreme poverty."
Development campaigners have criticized a pledge by the leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday to give $60 billion to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa.
Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized nations will end their summit Friday with a pledge to help nations on the world's poorest continent.
Climate change could create a refugee crisis worse than that faced at the end of World War Two with up to one billion people displaced from their homes by the middle of the century, a new report has warned.
Next time you get the urge to splurge on a diamond, be prepared to pay a little bit more.
Radio journalists broadcasting news about Zimbabwe have turned to texting their bulletins via mobile phones.
Lorence Nyaka hacks at the root of a cassava plant, slicing away one fresh tuber after another until he has a small pile, enough to make a midday meal for his wife and three young children.
The number of people who died worldwide from measles has fallen 60 percent since 1999, a decrease being called an incredible achievement in global public health.
Problem: AIDS and hepatitis are spread by reused needles.
I've been covering this continent for a dozen years. There's very little about Africa that I haven't seen, heard, smelled or felt.
In the northern Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi, a young mother grieves.
Clement Kagwa, hands gloved in thick rubber, expertly wields his 7-inch knife, slicing into a fleshy 3-foot-long perch caught by fishermen only hours before. He cuts off one fillet, decapitates the...
Out of Africa, the headline news is usually related to the legendary four horsemen of the Apocalypse - pestilence, war, famine and death. No question, these horsemen run rampant on the continent; but there is another story worth hearing too.
Clement Kagwa, hands gloved in thick rubber, expertly wields his 7-inch knife, slicing into a fleshy 3-foot-long perch caught by fishermen only hours before. He cuts off one fillet, decapitates the fish, then carves out a second fillet. He flicks the fish's head into a bin below his cutting table, then places the gleaming pink fillets onto a conveyor belt. Time elapsed: 52 seconds.
It's a big trip in terms of time, planning, and money -- so before heading into the lion's den, conduct a bit of research.
AIDS invaded our consciousness 25 years ago. A whole generation around the world has now grown up knowing only a world with AIDS.
To get away from the public scrutiny that befits one of the world's most famous showbiz couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decamped to Swakpomund -- a sleepy little town on the southwest coast of Africa.
Some wars go on killing long after they end.
Health officials in Azerbaijan say the deadly H5N1 strain has been found in dead birds from the country's Caspian sea coast.
For Ugandan beachcomber George Bukenya, identifying bird flu is like identifying pornography -- he says he'll know it when he sees it.
African health ministers have declared a tuberculosis emergency to muster greater political commitment to stop one of the continent's top killers, the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
This summer, millions of people -- many of them children -- have struggled to survive a devastating famine in the land-locked, West African nation of Niger.
Four-year-old Aminu Yahaya lay alongside his mother in the makeshift hospital -- exhausted, his skin peeling, alarmingly thin, and fighting to survive.
Protesters clashed with police, smashing car windows and throwing rocks, just hours before the world's eight richest nations were set to open their annual meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Too much aid to Africa without corresponding economic and political reform could cause relief efforts for the continent's poorest countries to fail, the head of the U.S. international aid agency said Sunday.
After the success of Live 8, the largest live concert ever held, politicians said people power could make a difference as Group of Eight (G8) leaders prepared to meet to discuss Africa.
Twenty years ago, dozens of musicians gathered for fund-raising concerts to combat starvation in Africa.
Politics is showbiz, and showbiz is politics.
The new head of the World Bank has praised a historic agreement by Group of Eight finance ministers to cancel up to $55 billion in foreign debt owed by some of the world's poorest nations.
British singer Damon Albarn has criticized the predominance of white stars on the bill of Live 8 and attacked the concert series for portraying Africa as a distant "failing" place.
Aid agencies and media in Britain criticized the $674 million aid pledged to Africa by President George W. Bush as inadequate.
The Bush administration will announce plans to spend $674 million for "humanitarian emergencies" in Africa during a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a U.S. official.
Twenty years after Live Aid raised $100 million for famine relief, singer/activist Sir Bob Geldof announced plans on Tuesday for concerts to help bring awareness to poverty in Africa.
Twenty years after he staged Live Aid to help save the starving in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof has announced plans for new concerts to fight poverty in Africa.
CNN.com asked users to share their thoughts about the political, spiritual, economic and other global issues the next pope will face. Here is a sampling from thousands of responses, some of which have been edited:
When John Paul II emerged as the new pope at the 1978 conclave, the Soviet Union held a grip on Eastern Europe, AIDS was not yet discovered, and the imposing towers of World Trade Center adorned New York City's skyline.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rock star Bono joined forces Thursday in Davos an attempt to focus the world spotlight on the plight of Africa.
A sharp increase in the demand for a potent anti-malaria drug has raised concerns of a supply shortage, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Concern is mounting in Africa over the growing number of well-educated and much-needed nurses who are leaving the continent for better salaries and working conditions in Britain.
Searching for a land of freedom and opportunity, thousands of former slaves left the United States in the 19th century and sailed across the Atlantic to a continent their ancestors had unwillingly left.
Tina Dunkley has spent decades trying to discover her roots.
A total eclipse of the moon will occur on Tuesday, May 4, which is the third such event in less than a year's time.
The recent controversy over an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea has focused attention on a rapidly growing oil sector and the jinx that seems to accompany Africa's mineral wealth.
Scientists have accused international health agencies of supporting cheap, ineffective and outdated drugs to fight malaria in poor countries in a report published this week.
First Carter and Castro do Cuba, then NATO extends a junior partnership offer to Russia. Now Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill are on a fact-finding tour of Africa. (The Times dubbed the duo...
Hear the word "safari," and you might have visions of trekking through the bush in the heart of Africa, thousands of miles away from any sign of civilization, exhausted and grimy from several days'...
At a trade show in Botswana, one of the most prosperous countries in Africa, a well-dressed crowd gathers to celebrate. The party, hosted by the De Beers-Botswana diamond monopoly, has attracted th...
Barely one in 5,000 Africans has access to the Internet, often through services such as the one advertised at left, in Kampala, Uganda. But a project is under way to encircle the continent with 32,...
If Bill Clinton fails to coax American business into investing in Africa, it won't be for lack of trying. Clinton's recent safari was surely one of the most remarkable exercises in salesmanship by ...
If you ever think that currency movements aren't important, consider the plight of Clifford Mpare and Justin Beckett, co-managers of the Calvert New Africa fund. Since we last spoke with them in ou...
"Only one digs the well, but many will come drink out of it," says an African proverb. New Africa Advisers, an investment firm in Durham, North Carolina, is breaking new ground with its Calvert New...
WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History ((offers)) a lesson in political correctness . . . There, in bold letters on a museum sign next to an exhibit of African hartebeests, ((are))...
While chaos reigns in Rwanda and Nigeria, global capital is taking its chances in such African countries as Ghana, Morocco, and those in the continent's southern tier. Says Michel ZhuParris, portfo...
While most of the industrialized world rouses from recent economic slumber, many developing nations are long awake and working overtime.
The best guitar sounds from Zaire, township rhythms from South Africa, and different musical styles from dozens of other African countries continue to land on U.S. shores. Music imports from that c...
AIDS is solvable before the end of the century. We have the cause in hand and we have a science base that is good enough to meet this challenge. If we get a vaccine for AIDS -- by 1991 or 1992 we s...
Striking changes have taken place across sub-Saharan Africa over the past couple of years, changes that are making many African countries surprisingly attractive for investment by U.S. companies. T...
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