Full Coverage: Africa

29.09.2007 Fleeing violence, drought, and unemployment, a growing number of Somali and Ethiopian immigrants are attempting to escape across dangerous waters, often encountering death at the hands of smugglers, the sea, or Yemeni forces, reports the UN.

28.09.2007 Emergency relief and a month's worth of medical supplies have reached a small town in the Rutshuru district of North Kivu where 4,000 displaced people are seeking refuge from ongoing conflict.

28.09.2007 The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently declared war on the Nigerian government and oil companies, demanding that local communities see benefits from the billions of dollars of oil removed from the region.

28.09.2007 Abdelbagi Jibril compares South Africa's economic and trade relations with China and the Arab Gulf states and its defence of the Khartoum regime with its indifference towards the tragedy of the people of Darfur, which, he argues, is tantamount to the genocide of Africans.
From: Pambazuka News

28.09.2007 Ieri, 27 settembre, si è tenuto in tutto il mondo lo "Stop Epa Day", una mobilitazione mondiale nel quinto anniversario dell'avvio dei negoziati tra Unione europea (UE) e Paesi dell'Africa, dei Caraibi e del Pacifico (ACP), per la firma degli Accordi di Partenariato Economico (APE/EPA). A cinque anni di distanza e pochi mesi dalla scadenza fissata per prossimo 31 dicembre 2007, la società civile si è mobilitata per opporsi alla logica degli interessi di espansione degli affari europei che ormai permea questi accordi di liberalizzazione. In Italia la Campagna per la riforma della Banca mondiale (CRBM), Fair e Manitese, hanno chiesto al Parlamento italiano di colmare il deficit di democrazia che caratterizza la conduzione di questi accordi.

27.09.2007 WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Civil society activists from Zimbabwe recently traveled to the United States to lobby for a more just international economic structure and to raise awareness about their country's devastating economic crisis.

26.09.2007 Mauritius tops a new "good governance index" - followed by Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa - and Somalia comes bottom.
From: Mo Ibrahim Foundation

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

26.09.2007 Nine African countries have won the first ever awards given for promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by governments in fulfilling their public service delivery functions, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has announced.

26.09.2007 Zambia’s Justice Minister George Kunda has accused The Post newspaper of working against the government on the Constitution-making process.

26.09.2007 Mauritius on kärkisijalla Mo Ibrahim -säätiön uudessa hyvä hallinto -indeksissä. Perässä luokituksessa tulevat Seychellit, Botswana, Kap Verde ja Etelä-Afrikka. Huonoimman luokituksen sai Somalia.

26.09.2007 Suomalaisten joukkojen lähettämisessä Darfuriin ei ole kysymys siitä, millaista YK-politiikkaa Suomen pitäisi harjoittaa, huomauttaa kansanedustaja Anni Sinnemäki.

26.09.2007 A recent gaggle of licensing decisions in West Africa demonstrate that all is not well with tendering processes in the sub-region. They have left the idea of supposedly independent regulatory decision on the sidelines and have been as transparent as mud. Russell Southwood lays out what went wrong and asks why these processes cannot be more open and fair.

25.09.2007 Many developing nations, especially in Africa, lack the basic infrastructure, technical, and institutional capacity necessary to benefit from international trade, say finance chiefs Pascal Lamy and Donald Kaberuka, explaining how they hope to level the global trading field.

25.09.2007 Euroopan unioni vahvistaa pyrkimyksiään hankkia alueelle ammattitaitoista työvoimaa alueensa ulkopuolelta. Euroopan komission on määrä esitellä lokakuun lopulla uusi hanke, joka helpottaisi työ- ja oleskelulupien myöntämistä ammatti-ihmisille.

25.09.2007 Mosquito elimination techniques, sewing, and pottery making are some of the skills Sudanese refugees, displaced by the ongoing conflict in Darfur, learn from Mercy Corps technicians working in the region.

25.09.2007 Taannoiset tulvat pilasivat jopa satojentuhansien länsiafrikkalaisten juomaveden. Nyt ripulitaudit, kolera ja malaria uhkaavat erityisesti lasten terveyttä, varoittaa Pelastakaa Lapset.

24.09.2007 Kiina on myöntänyt Kongolle viiden miljardin dollarin lainan muun muassa kaivosteollisuuden kunnostamiseen.

23.09.2007 Just as we begin to come to terms with the colonially-sponsored corporate conquest of our oil resources, along comes a new wave of ‘green’ companies turning fertile African lands to Northern ‘gold’, says Trusha Reddy.

21.09.2007 On this year's International Day of Peace the majority of news streams in from Africa, and it is not all bad.