Full Coverage: Africa

23.05.2008 As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected.

22.05.2008 A Somali community in Johannesburg has accused South African police of firing live ammunition at its members as more xenophobic attacks were reported and a former Cabinet minister questioned claims of 'third force' involvement in the attacks.

21.05.2008 Up to six million Ethiopian under-5s are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and require urgent preventive health and nutrition interventions for severe malnutrition, the UN children's agency has warned.

20.05.2008 As South African police announced the launch of "specialised units" to combat the deadly xenophobic violence in Gauteng, President Thabo Mbeki's government was today accused of policy failures that "created a tinderbox of unmet expectations which exploded in Alexandra."

19.05.2008 Hollywood actor David Harewood, a star of the film Blood Diamond, is supporting CAFOD's new exhibition which reveals the truth behind the glamour of gold through images and accounts from three continents.

15.05.2008 Governments could save human lives and millions of dollars in crop and income losses for the rural poor through better consideration of the needs of wildlife, according to a new study of conflict between humans and wild elephants in Africa and Asia.

14.05.2008 Peter Armstrong listens to Dr. Ian Goldin on Africa's response to globalisation.

07.05.2008 Erive Community Radio is bringing a change in the lives of young girls in Maganja da Costa. The UNICEF-supported station has led to a rise in enrollment in primary schools through its programmes promoting girls’ education. The station is run in partnership with Mozambique’s Social Communication Institute.

07.05.2008 Zimbabweans are increasingly harnessing new technologies -- notably cell phones and the internet -- to challenge the ever more dictatorial nature of Mugabe's regime.

07.05.2008 NGO representatives in Chad are mourning the killing by bandits of Pascal Marlinge, the country director of Save the Children UK.

06.05.2008 Tighter government monitoring to prevent the continued dumping of toxic e-waste on the developing world is demanded by the world federation of consumer organisations.

05.05.2008 Africa today presents the most promising opportunities and perspectives for the ICT industry. International Telecommunication Union is organising Telecom Africa 2008 which will bring together technologies, topics, leaders, speakers and networking opportunities for growth and investment in the continent.

02.05.2008 Once one of the few Maasai girls able to attend school and now the chairperson of a leading coalition of indigenous peoples' organizations in Africa, Mary Simat embodies the changing gender norms of the Kenyan Maasai community.

01.05.2008 An outreach and education program for youth that have lost their homes and families helps girls like Tryphine Chikabida, 14 years old, overcome the challenges of life in Zimbabwe.