Full Coverage: Africa

30.04.2008 Refugees account for over half of those that will need food aid this year due to increased food prices, writes an international refugee agency, noting that violent reactions to the crisis may also force more people to flee their homes.

30.04.2008 Zimbabwean groups have asked the international community not to turn away from their country at this key moment. Human rights advocates in Washington have picked up the mantle, urging their African counterparts to press Robert Mugabe on key issues of democracy and human rights.

29.04.2008 The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May.

28.04.2008 Kenyans talk about how they feel they are denied basic human rights - views that are particularly revealing given the violence that followed the country's disputed election results.

28.04.2008 Despite an arrest warrant issued a year ago by the International Criminal Court, a Sudanese minister accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur is free and is a "fugitive," the body's prosecutor said.

27.04.2008 Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers' movement, gives a reminder that the structures of apartheid are still thriving in South Africa.

25.04.2008 Over 3,000 Nigerian women die each year due to complications resulting from unsafe abortions, says a new study from a sexual and reproductive health institute.

25.04.2008 A photoessay reveals the toll 17 years of conflict, political instability, droughts, floods, and an international community struggling to provide aid has taken on Somalia.

25.04.2008 Freelance journalist Frank Chikowore was on April 21, 2008 finally charged with public violence, appearing in court almost a week after his arrest together with six other accused persons among them the opposition MDC's director of information and publicity, Luke Tamborinyoka.

25.04.2008 Today, on World Malaria Day, 3,000 children will die of malaria. This year, it will kill more than one million people. When faced with such disastrous statistics, it can be easy for us to feel overwhelmed – to see malaria as another problem that is too big and too complex. The reality is different: malaria is 100 per cent preventable. But action must be taken before the mosquito bites.

25.04.2008 “If the world is serious about achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015, ICT must figure prominently in the effort. Everyone – governments, civil society and private sector businesses – has a vital stake in fostering digital opportunity and putting ICT at the service of development.”

Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General, United Nations

24.04.2008 Churches in Zimbabwe are opening their doors to give refuge to people fleeing violence following the elections held almost a month ago.

24.04.2008 A World Food Programme driver has been shot dead while delivering vital food relief to Darfur, the second such killing in two months.

24.04.2008 The Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups must enforce a January peace treaty meant to conclude 10 years of conflict, urged 63 local and international non-governmental organizations.
From: Human Rights Watch

23.04.2008 Whatever happens to the Chinese arms shipment destined for Zimbabwe, the case highlights the urgent need for the UN to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty at a meeting in New York later this month, says a leading development group.

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

23.04.2008 Up to 300,000 people are estimated to have died in Darfur since early 2003, when rebels began fighting Government forces and allied militiamen, according to John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

22.04.2008 Mugabe's ZANU-PF party is "using a network of informal detention centers to beat, torture, and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans," reports a human rights monitor.
From: Human Rights Watch