Full Coverage: Africa
January 2008
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31.01.2008
Learning About Living, an innovative program run by OneWorld and local organizations in Nigeria, uses computers and mobile phones to teach teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.
more...From: OneWorld TV Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] Image: Two girls participating in the program. © OneWorld TV
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30.01.2008
Thousands of streetchildren are caught up in Kenya's post-election violence, according to a consortium of British charities who say they are totally overwhelmed by events.
more...From Consortium for streetchildren Related topics/regions: [Kenya] Image: Consortium for Street Children logo
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30.01.2008
News at last of Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye, who is being held in cell 10, block A01 of the secret prison camp, Eiraeiro. And with the sighting comes more details of the prison.
more...OneWorld Guide to Eritrea From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [Eritrea] |
30.01.2008
More...From: no organisation Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Capacity building] [Social exclusion] [Youth] [Health] [AIDS] [Disease] Image: OWTV-Learning about living
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30.01.2008
Chadian President Idriss Deby has affirmed that nearly half of the 180,000 displaced people in Chad will return to their homes by July. Local and UN officials believe this may be possible if security requirements are met.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Chad] Image: Chadian children displaced by violence. © Nicholas Reader / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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30.01.2008
Mozambique could face a massive food crisis later in the year unless action is taken to support farmers hit by the continuing floods, an international anti-poverty charity said today.
more...Related topics/regions: [Mozambique] Image: Children in a temporary camp after Mozambique floods in 2007 © ActionAid UK
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30.01.2008
Statement by women's organisations on the post-election crisis in Kenya.
more...From Pambazuka news Related topics/regions: [Kenya] |
30.01.2008
The Africa Command (Africom) - the US military command headquarters for Africa - infringes on the sovereignty of the continent's states, say Mark P Fancher, Jeffrey L Edison and Ajamu Sankofa.
more...From Pambazuka News Related topics/regions: [United States] |
29.01.2008
After much speculation, the deputy leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, Vincent Otti, is confirmed dead. Observers maintain that Otti's absence will pose a serious obstacle to peace talks launched Monday between the rebel groups and the Ugandan government.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Uganda] Image: Otti at a peace conference in November 2006. © Euan Denholm/IRIN
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29.01.2008
With government-opposition talks organised by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan due to take place in Kenya today, an MP of the Orange Democratic Movement was shot dead and two Kenyan military helicopters opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post.
more...+ Paralysis as roads cut off in fresh violence Related topics/regions: [Kenya] |
29.01.2008
Three staff members of a leading medical charity have been killed in the Somali town of Kismayo.
more...+ Ban Ki-moon deplores killings From: Médecins sans frontières Related topics/regions: [Somalia] |
29.01.2008
Rural women in KwaZulu Natal will be using mobile phones to report on violations of their human rights. The UmNyango Project, which is implementing this initiative, was established by Fahamu, a pan African organisation based in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar and Oxford
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29.01.2008
The Zambian Supreme Court has upheld the 2004 High Court decision not to deport satirical columnist Roy Clarke, a British national permanently resident in Zambia, over a column published in the privately owned Post newspaper on first January 2004, allegedly insulting President Levy Mwanawasa.
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29.01.2008
A World Bank report has applauded Uganda for embracing new technologies in her development process. The report 'Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World' examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s.
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28.01.2008
An initiative "to secure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of around a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean" was unveiled by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury and the UN Development Programme today.
more...From Cadbury Schweppes Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [India] [Ghana] [Caribbean] Image: Cadbury Cocoa Partnership
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27.01.2008
Another 23 Kenyans have been killed in Nakuru, bringing the death toll to 35 since violence erupted in the town two days ago.
more...From The Standard Related topics/regions: [Kenya] |
26.01.2008
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has criticised "gross and systematic human rights abuses" in Kenya and the urged the government to increase security.
more...From The Nation Related topics/regions: [Kenya] Image: Kofi Annan
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26.01.2008
NEW YORK, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people continue to die every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of armed conflict fueled predominantly by the world's thirst for gold and diamonds.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Consumption] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] Image: Congolese children. © UniversalGiving
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25.01.2008
Peace may finally come to the war-weary Democratic Republic of Congo as the government recently reached an agreement with the armed rebels to halt violence after extensive negotiations in the Kivu regions, says the UN.
more...From: United Nations Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] Image: Child soldiers in the DR Congo. © Amnesty International
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25.01.2008
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, calls for all charges against Lesotho journalist Thabo Thakalekoala to be dropped. These charges include High Treason, a charge that carries the death penalty
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