Full Coverage: Africa

31.05.2007 Despite pledging new money to fight AIDS worldwide, U.S. President George W. Bush continues to insist on funding programs discredited by the Institute of Medicine, the Government Accountability Office, and numerous independent research studies, global health advocates said Wednesday.

31.05.2007 None of the 48 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries linked through an aid agreement to the European Union have selected HIV as a key area in their funding priorities, an analysis shows.

31.05.2007 As outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a farewell five-day tour of Africa ahead of the G8 summit, a report shows that Africa is still waiting for billions of dollars of aid promised at the Gleneagles summit in 2005.

30.05.2007 With the deployment of UN peacekeeping troops held up, U.S. President George W. Bush’s beefed-up sanctions are not enough to protect the citizens of Darfur, said African Action Tuesday.

29.05.2007 JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (IPS) - About one million people in need of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS are yet to receive it in four southern African states, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a global nongovernmental organisation specialising in medical services.

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

29.05.2007 Slavery isn’t dead, says Robtel Neajai Pailey: its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation.
From Red Pepper

29.05.2007 British Prime Minister Tony Blair today begins a five-day trip to Libya, Sierra Leone and South Africa that he says "is all about showing that we need to keep re-engaging on Africa as a whole".
From: ePolitix.com

28.05.2007 The Bantwana Inititive will care for vulnerable children in their own communities, providing the educational, social, economical, and psychological supports necessary for their healthy development.

27.05.2007 The world's 30 million or so displaced people often have little choice but to cut and collect wood for shelters, lighting, cooking, and to make room for cultivating crops. In East Africa, refugees and their host communities will soon plant more than 2.6 million trees in and around their camps.

25.05.2007 UNITED NATIONS, May 25 (OneWorld) - The news that a major investment firm has drastically reduced its business interests with those close to the Sudanese government has emboldened pressure groups involved in the global campaign to stop attacks in Darfur.

24.05.2007 Severe shortages of health staff are compromising the quality and availability of HIV/AIDS care across southern Africa, a leading international medical charity has warned.

24.05.2007 Leading UK aid charities launched an emergency appeal today to save lives in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic.

24.05.2007 There are gruesome stories that surpass anything you can imagine - stories that have left scars and given rise to feelings of revenge.

23.05.2007 BRUSSELS, May 23 (IPS) - Mobile phone banking is expanding across the region from South Africa to Kenya and is putting the poor directly in control of their own finances like never before.

23.05.2007 In response to a BBC report that Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the UN said today that an investigation that began last year is still underway.

23.05.2007 The UK Chagos Support Association has welcomed today's court ruling against the British government's "secret and illegal" attempt to banish Chagossians to make way for a U.S. nuclear base and urged London not to waste yet more taxpayers' money on another appeal.
+ Chagos Islanders win right to return-British court rules in their favour
+ Diego Garcia backgrounder

23.05.2007 On the eve of the 16th anniversary of Eritrea’s independence tomorrow, the European Union has been urged to rethink its policy towards "one of the world’s most repressive regimes" and adopt targeted sanctions against President Issaias Afeworki.

23.05.2007 Human rights groups accuse Ethiopian security forces of committing grave abuses within their own borders, but the country's prime minister remains a favorite of the United States, which sees him as a crucial ally in it's so-called "war on terror." Zoe Alsop and Nick Wadhams report from the region.

22.05.2007 Bushman leader Roy Sesana will meet British MPs at the House of Commons on Wednesday to seek support for his people’s 10-year struggle to return to their land in the Kalahari desert in Botswana.
* Tribal peoples group launched in UK parliament