Full Coverage: Africa

30.06.2008 South Africa should stop deporting Zimbabweans, said an international humanitarian group.

27.06.2008 Somalia is no longer on the verge of a catastrophe - the disaster is happening now, the operations director of a leading medical charity has warned.
+ Malnutrition increases drastically as assistance dwindles

24.06.2008 Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase.

24.06.2008 Kenya has approved a controversial biofuel project that environmentalists say could destroy some of the country's most pristine wetlands.

20.06.2008 Remember Saro-Wiwa is a day of contemporary African films and documentaries at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 28 June, in support of the "Africa at the Pictures" festival at the Rich Mix cinema.

19.06.2008 A call for increased assistance for the thousands of Somalia and Eritrean refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants has been made on the eve of World Refugee Day (20 June) by a leading medical charity.
+ Refugee protection more challenging, says Guterres

19.06.2008 The exploitative practices of European trawlers in west African waters are set to be locked in by trade agreements with the European Union, warns a new report.

18.06.2008 An immediate increase in assistance is needed for the people of Mount Elgon in western Kenya and an end to the indiscriminate violence they have been enduring for almost two years, says a leading international medical group.

16.06.2008 European leaders have been urged to do more to bring lasting peace in eastern Congo as EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels to review the EU's military and police reform missions there.

13.06.2008 In its battle against rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Ethiopia's army has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a leading rights organisation.

13.06.2008 Washington has urged the United Nations Security Council to take up immediate consideration of the situation in Zimbabwe after reports of "state-sponsored violence" and political arrests there.

10.06.2008 Individual Africans consume less on average than residents of any other continent, but rising population is bringing Africa close to its ecological limits, according to the first detailed assessment of Africa’s ecological footprint.

06.06.2008 Darfuri refugees as young as nine are being trafficked as child soldiers by armed groups operating in eastern Chad, says an NGO.

06.06.2008 Accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek new indictments next month against senior Khartoum officials.

05.06.2008 Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have agreed to jointly fight Lord's Resistance Army rebels if peace talks with its elusive leader, Joseph Kony, fail, according to a Ugandan military official.