Full Coverage: Africa
November 2009
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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.
more...From: Greenpeace International Related topics/regions: [Liberia] [Conflict] [Law] [Forests] [Corporations] Image: Global Witness
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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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Western Sahara] [Spain] [Morocco] [Human rights] |
18.11.2009
Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study.
more...From: SciDev.Net Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Water/sanitation] |
15.11.2009
Kenyans must embrace and own the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, argues Dr Godfrey Musila.
more...Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Justice and crime] [Politics] |
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."
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Information & media] Image: London African Film Festival
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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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [Politics] |
12.11.2009
"You couldn’t have clearer evidence of the racism towards Bushmen in Botswana than this incident."
more...Related topics/regions: [Botswana] [Race Politics] [Indigenous rights] Image: 'Botswana's persecution of the Bushmen has continued under President Khama' (© Survival)
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12.11.2009
About 200 million under-fives in developing countries suffer from stunted growth, says a UN report.
more...From: United Nations Children's Fund Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Asia and the Pacific] [Nutrition/malnutrition] [Children] |
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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Ethiopia] [Food] [Agriculture] |
10.11.2009
Kenya hopes to eliminate malaria by 2017, a malaria conference heard last week.
more...From: SciDev.Net Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Science] [Malaria] Image: Malaria poster, Kenya © Peter Armstrong
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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.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Corporations] [Energy] |
09.11.2009
Journalists from Azerbaijan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia will be presented with International Press Freedom Awards this month.
more...Related topics/regions: [Azerbaijan] [Somalia] [Sri Lanka] [Tunisia] [Freedom of expression] |
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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Uganda] [AIDS] Image: World AIDS Day
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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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Land] [Agriculture] |
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.
more...Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [United Nations] [Indigenous rights] [Forests] |
05.11.2009
African environmentalists - Marc Ona Essangui , Wangari Maathai, Fatima Jibrell, Kofi Annan, Ken Saro-Wiwa
more...Related topics/regions: [Environmental activism] Image: Marc Ona Essangui (Goldman Environmental Prize)
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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
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