Full Coverage: Africa

30.03.2007 Zimbabwe's powerful religious elites have stepped in where African leaders failed to act this week, reprimanding the country's leadership for its oppressive tactics and warning that only "a new people-driven Constitution" can avert a mass uprising.

30.03.2007 Vice Chancellors and other high level representatives of Universities in Afghanistan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, have come together with major regional and European organisations to launch the Himalayan University Consortium as an alliance for knowledge networking, policy advocacy, and for promoting the concept and practice of sustainable mountain development.

29.03.2007 Attempting to crush a rebel movement, the Central African Republic's army has been burning civilian houses in violation of humanitarian law, charges a refugee support group. Approximately 250,000 Central Africans have been displaced in successive waves of violence since 2003.

29.03.2007 As instability worsens in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, Mercy Corps has expanded its commitment to families in need. One critical component of its programs in Darfur is access to clean water.

29.03.2007 Ugandan suurlähettiläs Joseph Tomusange epäilee kiinalaisten hakevan Afrikasta vain uusia markkinoita. Kestävästä kehityksestä ei juuri puhuta.

29.03.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (OneWorld) - There can be no durable peace in the Sudanese region of Darfur unless major world powers take swift and effective measures to protect civilians and punish those responsible for committing crimes against humanity, say foreign policy experts in a new study released Tuesday.

28.03.2007 The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition was arrested Wednesday as the country's president prepared to attend a regional summit meeting that will address Zimbabwe's crisis. Human rights lawyers have not yet been able to access the detainees.

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28.03.2007 A deal to name a key rebel leader to a power-sharing government could help end a dangerous political stalemate that has divided Cote d'Ivoire since 2002.

27.03.2007 Some argue that Africa is trapped by its poverty, and that aid is necessary if Africa is to escape. International aid expert Nancy Birdsall suggests an alternative theory: Africa is caught in an institutional trap and needs a stronger middle class.

27.03.2007 After years of inaction, leaders from 14 Southern African nations will hold crisis talks later this week to try to halt Zimbabwe's slide into "full-scale humanitarian, social, and political crisis."

27.03.2007 In his second dispatch from Harare, Ontibile Kababongwe says that police are closely monitoring University of Zimbabwe students for fear that they might demonstrate in solidarity with arrested civil society leaders.

26.03.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 (OneWorld) - Cautiously optimistic about the prospects for peace in northern Uganda, leading international aid groups are welcoming the United Nations' efforts to bring the warring parties in that country to the negotiating table.

26.03.2007 Luonnonkatastrofien koettelema maa selvisi maaliskuun pyörremyrskystä aiempaa paremmin ja pienemmillä vahingoilla. Kiitos kuuluu hallitukselle ja yhteistyökumppaneille, jotka ovat parantaneet maan katastrofivalmiutta ja opastaneet ihmisille oikeita toimitatapoja muun muassa tulvien sattuessa.

25.03.2007 Mary Riddell reveals how Bob Geldof pushed for a united cultural front to help end the massacres in Darfur.

23.03.2007 An annual commemoration day is to be held to recall Britain's role in the slave trade, and the fight against it, says deputy prime minister John Prescott.

23.03.2007 As the World Health Organisation reported that the Global tuberculosis epidemic is levelling off, a leading African medical group urged regional coordination to prevent emerging strains of drug-resistant TB from developing into an African and possibly a global crisis.
+ The World Tuberculosis Day (24 March) slogan is “TB anywhere is TB everywhere”

23.03.2007 Maailman elintarvikeohjelma WFP on huolissaan heikentyvästä elintarviketilanteesta eteläisessä Afrikassa. Ruokapula uhkaa miljoonia ihmisiä.

22.03.2007 The Rwandan government has announced a new national family planning program, but aid organizations warn this program must be voluntary, and should not offer any incentives or disincentives when it comes to childbearing.

22.03.2007 NAIROBI, Mar 22 (IPS) - Kenya's capital, Nairobi, takes its name from a Maasai word meaning "place of cool waters". In parts of the city, however, this term is less descriptive than ironic -- as demand for water is outstripping supply.