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News from Africa

HEALTH Glaxo offers free malaria research, vaccine nears GlaxoSmithKline PLC hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental malaria vaccine and said on Wednesday it would seek only a small profit and ensure it is widely available in hard-hit countries. AFRICA:... Read More

4 New Beneficiaries for All for Africa

Barry Segal, founder of the Segal Family foundation, has joined our board.  With generous support from his foundation, we are pleased to announce 4 new All For Africa beneficiaries; MacDella Cooper Foundation (Liberia), Nibakure Children’s Village (Rwanda),... Read More

News From the Continent

HEALTH HIV infections and deaths fall as drugs have impact Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the past five years, latest figures show.  READ MORE LESOTHO: Mountain clinics bring HIV services... Read More

Youth Action International’s Womens Empowerment Center

Message from All For Africa beneficiary Youth Action International. ” We are proud to announce that this year’s cohort of women have completed their program.  Each of the women has been trained in a skill of their choice.  They have now been placed... Read More

Role Reversal Turns Elderly into Providers for AIDS Orphans

Ahmed Kasawala doesn’t know the warmth of his mother’s embrace; she died before he turned two, leaving him to the frail arms of his grandmother. “I pray to Allah everyday to forgive us. Miriam was a good girl. I think she got it from the blood they gave her... Read More

Interview with All for Africa Board Member Jeffrey Wright

All for Africa Board Member and Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright talks about his involvement with All for Africa. His notable film work includes roles in W, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Basquiat, Ride with the Devil, Boycott, Lackawanna Blues, Manchurian... Read More

Under the Baobab Tree

Coins of golden sunlight dance on the pale blue waters of Lake Malawi as palm fringe shadows reach over the sandy beach, sheltering the children from the intense heat. The idyllic bay makes it hard to focus on the fact that we are on a fact-finding mission at the... Read More

I bring What I Love film premiere

Photos by Misengabo E. Kapuadi Steve Wasira and Busie Matsiko of All for Africa introducing the film ‘Youssou N’Dour: I bring what I Love’ before the screening at the premiere on June 12, 2009 at the Paris Theater in New York. All For Africa works with communities... Read More

Southern Sudan Basketball Project

Christian Solidarity International (CSI), along with Talkers Magazine and its political editor Ellen Ratner, took a trip to Southern Sudan and the border of southern Darfur in March 2008. Six broadcasters came on the trip and helped to deliver survival kits (“Sacks... Read More

Overcoming HIV/AIDS is a key to African development

by Djibril Diallo, PhD.Lon. Senior Advisor to the Executive Director UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) Africa faces the greatest challenges in trying to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), agreed on by all 192 countries that are... Read More

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