Full Coverage: Africa

31.10.2008 Will the first official sales of ivory in southern Africa for nearly 10 years open the floodgates to illegal poaching?

31.10.2008 ActionAid and Save the Children say they have been forced to suspend operations in Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo because of the surge in violence in recent days.
+ Save the Children has had to begin temporary evacuation of its staff in North Kivu
+ International assistance dwindles as fighting renews in the DRC

31.10.2008 The heavy fighting in the Congolese area of North Kivu has intensified, causing the displacement of tens of thousands of people towards Goma, the provincial capital, says the UN Children's Fund.

30.10.2008 Diamond giant De Beers has given into pressure and says it has stopped operations on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana because those it consulted, including Bushmen living inside the reserve, did not agree with its plan to explore for diamonds near a Bushman community.

27.10.2008 A five-year jail sentence for a notorious elephant poacher could provide a lifeline for wildlife in and around a Cameroonian rainforest that survived the Ice Age, says a leading environmental group.

26.10.2008 A campaign against De Beers has been revived following the discovery that the company has returned to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana.

22.10.2008 Exiled families longing to return to their native islands in the Indian Ocean - from which they were expelled by Britain to make way for a US military base - cannot return home, Britain's highest court has ruled.
+ The Chagossians fate
+ Previous coverage

22.10.2008 Hundreds of people on death row in Nigeria did not have a fair trial and may be innocent, according to a new report, which says the country's criminal justice system is "riddled with corruption, negligence and a nearly criminal lack of resources".

20.10.2008 The award of "the world's largest prize" for African leadership to former Botswana president Festus Mogae comes under fire for his alleged role in overseeing the eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen from their land.
+ Roger Samba wins the $200,000 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership.

20.10.2008 Two aid workers have been killed - in Afghanistan and Somalia.

20.10.2008 The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan has handed over a satellite imagery system to the team tasked with producing a border map, a key element of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that aims to end the long-running north-south civil war.

18.10.2008 Mike Tyson has been beaten in a prize-fight – by four women.

15.10.2008 Christian Aid has released emergency funds to provide seeds for farmers in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province.

13.10.2008 Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai threatened on Sunday to pull out of a fragile power-sharing deal if President Robert Mugabe moved ahead with plans to hand key ministries to his own party.

10.10.2008 The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt from 4.6 million to 6.4 million since June, according to the government and the UN, but cereal rations have been cut by a third because not enough food is reaching the country.

08.10.2008 Violence in Congo's North Kivu province has reached its highest levels in years, while assistance is hardly reaching those most in need, according to an international medical organisation.

04.10.2008 The top United Nations envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has asked for additional peacekeepers beyond the nearly 19,000 uniformed personnel already there to prevent the country from slipping back into "horrendous" conflict.

02.10.2008 A US aid agency move to end contraceptive supplies to one of the world’s leading family planning organisations in several African countries has been described by the group as "purely political and dangerous to the lives of women."

01.10.2008 The UN should impose targetted sanctions on Sudan, including travel bans and assets freezes on senior civilian and military officials, in a bid to stop continuing violence in Darfur and the government's failure to comply with humanitarian law obligations.