Full Coverage: Africa

18.11.2009 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime.

18.11.2009 Aminatou Haidar, winner of two US human rights awards, is on hunger strike in support of her demand that the Spanish and Moroccan authorities allow her back to Western Sahara.

18.11.2009 Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study.

15.11.2009 Kenyans must embrace and own the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, argues Dr Godfrey Musila.

14.11.2009 New currents in narrative forms are the special focus of the London African Film Festival 2009: "We are showcasing debuts by a wide range of dynamic, young film-making talent and the most creative of TV/film practitioners to celebrate the energy that young Africans from all corners of the continent have brought to drama as they embrace the digital age."

12.11.2009 A season of fear has returned to Zimbabwe, following Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to 'disengage' from the country's dysfunctional Government of National Unity, writes Mary Ndlovu.

12.11.2009 "You couldn’t have clearer evidence of the racism towards Bushmen in Botswana than this incident."

12.11.2009 About 200 million under-fives in developing countries suffer from stunted growth, says a UN report.

10.11.2009 While Ethiopia endures a devastating famine, Meles Zenawi's regime has been downplaying and double-talking around the crisis, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam.

10.11.2009 Kenya hopes to eliminate malaria by 2017, a malaria conference heard last week.

10.11.2009 A catastrophe is unfolding in the Niger Delta. Entire communities are devastated. The land they have lived on for generations is poisoned. Behind this catastrophe is a UK company – Shell. But they’re hiding behind a smokescreen of denials and excuses. It’s time this stopped – it’s time Shell was called to account.

09.11.2009 Journalists from Azerbaijan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia will be presented with International Press Freedom Awards this month.

07.11.2009 A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organisations and individuals says in a new report.

06.11.2009 The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources, writes Joan Baxter.

06.11.2009 Campaigners have appealed to the UN to intervene to halt the evictions of thousands of families from their ancestral home in a Kenyan forest.

05.11.2009 African environmentalists - Marc Ona Essangui , Wangari Maathai, Fatima Jibrell, Kofi Annan, Ken Saro-Wiwa

03.11.2009 Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, according to an international rights group.+ UN peacekeeping chief calls for probe into killings by armed forces