Alex Kellogg

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — It is no secret that the old Organization of African Unity’s (OAU) annual summits often provided an excuse to give a face-lift to the cities that hosted them. And though the group was reincarnated here last week as the African Union (AU) — a move intended to herald the organization’s transformation […]

NAIROBI, KENYA — The streets were nearly deserted in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi last Friday evening. After voting in the country’s most important presidential and parliamentary elections in nearly a quarter-century, most people retreated to their homes. The brave went to their local bars to watch the results come in on national television. A […]

ASMARA, ERITREA — When U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld concluded a whirlwind tour of the horn of Africa and the Persian Gulf last week, he left in his wake more than just a handful of new allies in America’s war on terrorism lined up behind him — most of them countries that prior to […]

Chances are that August 17, 2002 won’t go down in history as a particularly pivotal day for the pro-reparations movement. Not only did the Millions for Reparations Rally — held on a small patch of the Mall immediately in front of the nation’s capital for seven hours — fall well short of a million participants. […]