Full Coverage: Africa

30.12.2008 A series of massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army has been reported by the confederation of Catholic charities.

27.12.2008 Acute child malnutrition in parts of Zimbabwe has increased by almost two-thirds compared with last year, according to Save the Children.

27.12.2008 The UN peacekeeping mission in Congo has rushed a company of government troops to the north-east following reliable reports that elements of the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had massacred at least 15 villagers.

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

21.12.2008 All boys and men in Uganda will be mobilised for free circumcision beginning next year to help slow the spread of HIV, the assistant commissioner for national disease control, Dr. Alex Opio, announced.

18.12.2008 Sixteen thousand children in seven African countries are due to undergo final-stage tests of a potential malaria vaccine early next year after research showed it halves the risk of malaria among infants and children in Kenya and Tanzania.

17.12.2008 A regional political solution be found for the conflict in eastern Congo following the release of a UN report which has presented conclusive evidence that the Rwandan and Congolese governments are supporting illegal armed groups there, says a prominent development charity.

15.12.2008 Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo yesterday jointly attacked the rebel Uganda movement, the Lord's Resistance Army, in eastern Congo's Garamaba forest.

12.12.2008 Zimbabwe's cholera crisis is still out of control, says Save the Children country director Rachel Pounds as a Zimbabwean government spokesperson explained that the President's claims that doctors had halted the disease were intended to point out that cholera is no reason for an invasion.

11.12.2008 Liberia’s largest-ever cultural festival will take place over three days in the capital Monrovia from 11 December, featuring performers from across Liberia and surrounding countries and expecting to attract over 30,000 people.

11.12.2008 Botswana government approval of a diamond mine on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen on condition that Gem Diamonds does not provide the Bushmen with water is slammed as "scandalous".

09.12.2008 Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has crippled the nation, according to Bishop Levee Kadenge, who described his country as "under siege and full of distress".

09.12.2008 The man convicted of leading the death squad in Mozambique that murdered investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso in November 2000 was arrested on Monday evening on the road to Namaacha.

08.12.2008 Scientists and NGOs have launched a petition calling for the reinstatement of a respected South African water expert who has been suspended from his job at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

05.12.2008 Hundreds of pregnant women in Zimbabwe face death because of a near-total collapse of health services, a leading children's charity warns.
+ Cholera impact in Zimbabwe

04.12.2008 European member states are turning their backs on the suffering of the people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a leading development charity.

02.12.2008 An anthrax outbreak has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, an international children's charity has warned.