Full Coverage: Africa

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.

31.01.2008 "Terveysministeriö varoittaa, että tupakoijaa uhkaa kuolema nuorella iällä", lukee savukeaskissa Afrikan runsasväkisimmässä valtiossa Nigeriassa. Teksti ei kuitenkaan paljoa auta, jos nuoriso ei sitä osaa lukea.

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.
From Consortium for streetchildren

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.
OneWorld Guide to Eritrea

30.01.2008

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.

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.

30.01.2008 Afrikan unionin valtiojohtajat aloittavat huomenna torstaina huippukokouksensa Etiopian pääkaupungissa Addis Abebassa, ja päivänpolttavaa keskustelua hallinnee Kenian kriisi. Tutkijan mukaan kokouskulisseissa pitäisi kuitenkin pohtia myös sitä, mistä afrikkalaisessa demokratiassa todella on kysymys.

30.01.2008 Statement by women's organisations on the post-election crisis in Kenya.
From Pambazuka news

30.01.2008 Esimerkiksi Kenian turismisektori saattaa menettää yli 100 000 työpaikkaa, virallinen sektori jopa 500 000 työpaikkaa tämän vuoden ensimmäisen puolikkaan aikana. Kaikkiaan taloudellisen menetyksen hinnaksi on arvioitu jopa 260 miljardia Kenian shillinkiä eli 3,6 miljardia Yhdysvaltain dollaria.

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.
From Pambazuka News

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.

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.
+ Paralysis as roads cut off in fresh violence

29.01.2008 Three staff members of a leading medical charity have been killed in the Somali town of Kismayo.
+ Ban Ki-moon deplores killings

29.01.2008 Afrikkaa mainitaan tukin koskaan, kun puhutaan kansainvälisestä kaupasta. "Seuraavaksi on Afrikan vuoro", sanoo kuitenkin Anneli Virtanen, Suomen vientiä edistävän Finpron Etelä-Afrikan toimiston johtaja.

29.01.2008 Levottomuuksien riski kasvaa vilpillisten vaalien jälkeen, varoittaa Lovemore Madhuku. Hän johtaa Zimbabwen oppositiovoimien valistuskampanjaa maaliskuun vaalien alla.

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

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.

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.

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.
From Cadbury Schweppes