Full Coverage: Africa

30.11.2008 Set in the Ugandan capital, Divizionz is a low-budget feature film about four friends from different parts of the country who are trying to make it as hop hop performers in Kampala.

30.11.2008 Thousands of people with HIV and AIDS are being forced further into misery in Zimbabwe, as food shortages and spiralling prices make it difficult to follow antiretroviral treatment regimes, report NGOs.
+ Economic crisis 'threatens to re-ignite Aids epidemic'
+ Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, December 3-7

28.11.2008 The first meeting of signatories to the Gorilla Agreement is expected to come up with practical proposals to further conservation of the animal in Africa.

26.11.2008 Zimbabwe should declare the current cholera epidemic a national health emergency so that national and international aid can be mobilised to address the outbreak, according to an international aid agency.

25.11.2008 Congolese security forces have killed an estimated 500 people and detained and tortured hundreds more in the two years since elections that were meant to bring democracy, an international rights group said in a report released today.

25.11.2008 A San Francisco jury begins deliberations today in a precedent-setting civil case that seeks to hold oil giant Chevron liable in the US for human rights abuses in Nigeria.
+ OneWorld's Nigeria Guide

23.11.2008 Many displaced Congolese are returning to their villages rather than risk starvation in the refugee camps, says a development group.

21.11.2008 The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has presented evidence against three rebel commanders for their role in last year’s deadly attack against peacekeepers in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

21.11.2008 Agreement to send more UN troops and police to Congo must be supplemented by the immediate despatch of European troops, says an international development charity.

20.11.2008 Some of Africa's lowest income nations such as Kenya and Malawi are more child-friendly than many richer nations such as Equatorial Guinea, Libya and Nigeria, according to a new index ranking 52 governments using 40 policy indicators on health, education, child law and child policies.

20.11.2008 A total of 91 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers' rights last year, with Colombia and Guinea the worst offenders.

19.11.2008 Judges of the International Criminal Court are re-evaluating cases against leading members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army to determine whether they are still viable and whether Uganda’s proposed special court could be used for some of the prosecutions.
+ OneWorld Guide to Uganda

18.11.2008 Up to 1.4 million Zimbabweans will be at risk if a cholera outbreak - dubbed "the biggest ever in Harare" by the Health Ministry - continues to spread, an international medical charity warns.

18.11.2008 Several key African countries have done "very little" to invest in health research since pledging to do so at a world meeting of health and science ministers in Mexico four years ago, say critics.

14.11.2008 Hundreds of women dressed in black will gather in the Congo today to demand peace and protection in the war-torn region.

13.11.2008 Kalahari Bushmen evicted from their land by the government of former Botswana president Festus Mogae today condemned African billionaire Mo Ibrahim and his foundation for giving Mogae their "Achievement In Africa Leadership Award", to be presented at a ceremony in Egypt on Saturday.

12.11.2008 Huge numbers of people are still being displaced in Congo, with 60,000 arriving in one camp in the last week alone, putting huge strain on the humanitarian response, a development charity warned today.

12.11.2008 An impoverished Kenyan indigenous community, evicted from their land to make way for a world-famous nature reserve, is launching a special appeal on World Responsible Tourism Day, to lay claim to a slice of lucrative tourism revenue.

08.11.2008 The European Union - whose foreign ministers are to meet in Brussels on 10 November - should send immediate reinforcements to the beleaguered UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo which has been unable to halt abuses against civilians, according to a coalition of NGOs.

07.11.2008 African countries rich in oil and gas have no excuse for providing poor access to energy for most of their citizens, the International Energy Agency said as it predicted the price of oil would soon rise above $100 a barrel and then double again by 2030.