Full Coverage: Africa

31.01.2006 The Sudanese refugees remaining in detention in Cairo will not be deported, an Egyptian official has said. They were detained shortly before the New Year after police violently evicted them from the protest camp they had erected in a Cairo neighborhood to support their demands for resettlement to a third country.

31.01.2006 Topical tickets: Dr Karma Nabulsi talks about Palestine and The Politics of Democratic Change at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Kirsten Sellars discusses Trying Saddam and Other Dictators: the limits of justice at the London School of Economics this week; and with the Kenya government embroiled in a corruption scandal, the country's former anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, is talking at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 15 February.

31.01.2006 A reputable organization is seeking an Educational Content Coordinator to be based in Lusaka, Zambia. The incumbent will report to the Programme Manager. The Educational Content Coordinator will be responsible for managing the Educational Support Network (ESNET) project designed to supplement educational teaching materials with identified secondary schools in Zambia.

31.01.2006 International agency Oxfam has said that rich countries must change their attitude to world trade negotiations and show leadership to deliver reforms that lift people out of poverty. It wants the EU and US to stop making excuses for not reforming agricultural trade rules and to end their unreasonable demands for developing countries to open industry and services markets.

31.01.2006 The U.S. has the perfect opportunity to stop the genocide in Darfur when it takes over the presidency of the U.N Security Council this February. A massive call-in campaign will target the U.S. mission to the U.N. Wednesday and a rally for Darfur will take place at the White House Thursday.

31.01.2006 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the UK of "meanness of spirit" in a letter to Gordon Brown asking him to return £1.7bn that the UK will receive from Nigeria as its share of a deal by rich countries to write off much of Nigeria's debts.

31.01.2006 Ordinary cotton-growers and other farmers have voted against introducing genetically-modified crops in a "citizens' jury" in Mali and instead proposed a package of recommendations to strengthen traditional agriculture and support for local farmers.

30.01.2006 Patrick Vieira's life story, from humble beginnings in Senegal to triumph with France, shows that football is the world's most globalised industry, says Simon Kuper.

28.01.2006 The UN Security Council must stop the deluge of weapons into Africa's Great Lakes region - particularly northern Uganda and Congo - and protect civilians from attacks by armed groups, a leading charity urged.
* Security Council reviews proposed peacebuilding in Africa’s Great Lakes region

27.01.2006 The groundwork has been laid to bring Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, but complacency and corruption may leave millions waiting for justice. Others believe prosecution would do little to ease the suffering of the country's embittered citizens, anyway.

27.01.2006 Mr Jim Ovia, the newly appointed chairman of the National Information Technology Advisory Committee (NITAC) , has identified ICT as the “cement” that holds the future of mankind together. He vowed to ensure the development of ICT in Nigeria.

27.01.2006 Mr. Kan-Dapaah Minister of Communications of Ghana announced that Ghana's telecommunication sector has witnessed a dramatic improvement in telecommunications infrastructure in the year 2005 in response to the innovative policies and growing confidence in the management of the sector. Ghana's tele-density now stands at fifteen per cent.

27.01.2006 About 400 UN staff members in Ivory Coast have been evacuated to Gambia and Senegal in the wake of attacks on the UN offices.

27.01.2006 Campaigners say the UK Treasury will pocket a £1.7 billion windfall – almost twice the entire aid budget for Africa – from a deal to cancel part of Nigeria's debt and accuse the government of effectively raiding the aid budget to help balance the UK's finances.

26.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 26 (OneWorld) - The UN Security Council has condemned an attack that killed eight Guatemalan UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid a new wave of violence sweeping the former Zaire and its neighbors in Africa's Great Lakes region.

26.01.2006 Sudanese refugees are again fleeing Darfur for camps in neighbouring Chad, and the UN refugee chief, António Guterres, has warned the UN Security Council of a "much greater calamity" in the region unless bold measures are taken soon.

26.01.2006 "I heard this evening that the UN are going to launch an emergency appeal for the area on 10 February. If donors don’t respond generously and immediately, what I’m seeing now will pale in comparison with what will come." Brendan Cox reports from Wajir, Kenya.

26.01.2006 Africa is gradually slipping down the agenda of the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Switzerland, with China and India the centre of attention,according to a South African newspaper report.

25.01.2006 As the first leg of this year's World Social Forum drew to a close in West Africa Monday, participants noted the decidedly "Afrocentric" focus of the event. Despite minor administrative glitches, participants discussed issues ranging from women's rights to the conflict in the Sudan, and shuttled between more than 800 events and activities.

25.01.2006 A $200m undersea cable promising a massive improvement in the quality and cost of African telecommunications will go live only by the end of next year, or a year later than hoped.