Full Coverage: Africa

30.06.2006 Progress on fulfilling last year's G8 pledges on aid, debt and HIV/AIDS is "painfully slow" and leaders have fallen backwards on trade, says the lobby group set up to monitor the Summit's pledges.

28.06.2006 Peace agreements, post-conflict reconstruction, and governance do better when women are involved, according to research in Sudan, Congo and Uganda by the International Crisis Group.

28.06.2006 Despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people will remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS, the World Food Programme has warned.

28.06.2006 Save the Children has raised concern about the increase in the re-recruitment of children into armed groups in Democratic Republic of Congo following the abduction of six children by "heavily armed and aggressive" soldiers.

28.06.2006 African Union leaders meeting in Banjul must press their G8 counterparts to keep last year's promises on Africa, four leading African and international NGOs said yesterday.
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28.06.2006 The same social and economic conditions that underpin the AIDS pandemic in Africa threaten to spread "bird flu", a leading African lobby group warns G8 leaders ahead of their Summit in Moscow.

28.06.2006 Rwanda has been announced the winner of the United Nations global competition on public service on the African continent.

28.06.2006 A new report from the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) demonstrates how a powerful television serial drama about young adults living in a rural South African town impacted by HIV/AIDS led to improved attitudes about HIV/AIDS, stigma, living openly and positively with HIV and faithfulness among its viewers.

27.06.2006 The Sudanese government has lifted the restrictions it imposed on June 26th on United Nations relief operations across the western region of Darfur.

27.06.2006 The Sudanese government has lifted the restrictions it imposed on Monday on UN relief operations across the western region of Darfur.

27.06.2006 A leading medical journal says the Botswana government's eviction of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has led to a dramatic deterioration in their health.

27.06.2006 Josep Prior, Medecins sans frontieres' head of mission in Somalia, describes how the coming to power of the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu, after 15 years of control by warlords, has affected civilians and MSF's projects.

27.06.2006 United Nations officials were yesterday trying to break a diplomatic impasse after the Sudanese government suspended their operations in the western region of Darfur.

27.06.2006 Desertification may force over 60 million people to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to northern Africa and Europe by 2020. The "merciless" transformation of habitable land to desert has considerable economic, environmental and social implications for nearby populations.

27.06.2006 The mining sector in Tanzania has once again come under intense scrutiny with signs that government officials are beginning to yield to public pressure for a fresh look at mining contracts.

26.06.2006 The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), Africa’s largest water diversion scheme, was funded on the condition that that poor people in the region would not be made poorer as a result. A decade later, more than 20,000 farmers have been displaced by the two dams completed so far.

26.06.2006 Kaukaiselta tuntuva nälänhätä koettiin läheisesti YK:n Maailman elintarvikeohjelman Lontoon toimistossa kun katastrofialueelta saapui tekstiviesti. "Nimeni on Mohammed Sokor, kirjoitan teille Dagahaleyn pakolaisleiriltä Dadaabissa. Hyvä herra, tilanne täällä on hälyttävä. Ihmisille ei anneta tarpeeksi ruokaa. Teidän täytyy auttaa."

26.06.2006 Teologian tohtori Kati Kemppaisen Afrikka-kuvaan kuuluu sekä aurinkoa että varjoa, mistä hänen kesäkuussa julkaistu kirjansakin kertoo. Auringon varjot –kirjassaan hän kuvailee lähetystyöntekijän arkea Tansaniassa yksityiskohtaisesti ja pohdiskelevasti päiväkirjanomaisissa tarinoissaan.

26.06.2006 "My name is Mohammed Sokor, writing to you from Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. Dear sir, there is an alarming issue here. People are given too few kilogrammes of food. You must help." The UN World Food Programme receives a direct appeal from a disaster zone in the Horn of Africa.
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26.06.2006 The average Zimbabwean family requires $524 a month just to cover the basics, but the average worker only earns about $200 a month. How, then, do people cope? Many Zimbabweans have turned into entrepreneurs, finding alternative ways of surviving in their poverty-stricken country.