Full Coverage: Africa

27.02.2007 A leading development charity says it is delivering relief aid to more than 20,000 people living in one of the worst affected areas of Mozambique where floods have displaced 170,000 people and killed at least 45.

27.02.2007 The International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has presented evidence alleging that a former Sudanese minister and a leader of the Janjaweed militia jointly committed war crimes against the civilian population in Darfur.
From the ICC
* Crisis in Darfur

27.02.2007 Modernin elämän ja perinteen yhteentörmäys on tuonut hiv-tartunnat maasaiden maille. Olenana Pulein mukaan maasai-elämän on pakko muuttua, jotta taudin leviämistä voidaan ehkäistä. Muutosvastarinta on kuitenkin suurta.

26.02.2007 Ajatusta maakeinottelusta ei tule helposti yhdistäneeksi valtioon, joka on pääosin autiomaata. Länsiafrikkalaisessa Nigerissä keinottelusta on kuitenkin jopa hyötyä aavikoitumisen torjunnassa.

25.02.2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently travelled to Washington, DC. One year into her presidency, Sirleaf reflected on her government’s achievements, and the many challenges her country must still confront.

25.02.2007 Armed clashes in Mogadisu have increased in frequency and intensity in February, leaving dozens of people dead and many wounded and driving civilians from their homes, the Red Cross has warned.

23.02.2007 A campaign is being organised to pressure British Chancellor Gordon Brown to use his international influence to stop "outrageous and immoral vulture funds", through which companies buy developing countries’ debt cheaply and then try to reclaim much more money when the country is in better shape.
* Stop the Debt Vultures

23.02.2007 Each time Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Africa, he leaves a bigger Chinese footprint on the continent. This February, Hu made his most visible push yet for settlement of the Darfur crisis.

22.02.2007 An epidemic of acute watery diarrhoea has caused hundreds of deaths in Ethiopia.

22.02.2007 Zimbabwen ammatillinen keskusjärjestö ZCTU on antanut lakkovaroituksen. Jos presidentti Robert Mugaben hallitus ei puutu liiton esiin nostamiin epäkohtiin tämän viikon loppuun mennessä, alkaa yleislakko. Polttavin kysymys ovat julkisen sektorin työntekijöiden palkat.

22.02.2007 Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.

20.02.2007 As floods continue to displace thousands of people in central Mozambique, Save the Children UK has urged that cash grants should be considered rather than food aid for long term recovery. Paul Harvey comments.

19.02.2007 The Democratic Republic of Congo faces disaster if United Nations peacekeepers are withdrawn too soon, an international aid agency has warned.

19.02.2007 President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed former President Ibrahim Babangida as special envoy at the head of a peace mission to Guinea in an attempt to stem continuing violence there.
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19.02.2007 Sambiassa odotetaan kohtuullista maissisatoa, vaikka osa maasta kärsii tulvista. On kuitenkin epävarmaa, löytääkö ruoka tiensä kaikkein köyhimpien pöytiin.

16.02.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 16 (OneWorld) - While already finding it hard to get into the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, aid groups say it is becoming increasingly difficult to help displaced people in neighboring Chad as well.

16.02.2007 Britain is backing an experiment to change the way aid is delivered in parts of Africa that highlights a growing divide over how Western nations spend hundreds of millions of dollars pledged to the continent.
+ How six-mile trek for grain became a stroll to the cashpoint

16.02.2007 Tasa-arvo on tärkeä ja ajankohtainen kysymys Tansaniassa. Haasteita riittää, mutta myös edistystä on saavutettu. Naisten osuus palkkatyössä on häviävän pieni, vain neljä prosenttia. Kiintiöt ovat tuoneet naisia kunnanvaltuustoihin ja parlamenttiin.

15.02.2007 The British Government’s bid to reverse a High Court ruling in favour of Indian Ocean islanders evicted from their homes 40 years ago to make way for a U.S. nuclear base is in its final day.

15.02.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 (OneWorld) - Human rights groups spoke out this week, condemning the United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, for claiming the crisis in Darfur no longer constitutes genocide.