Full Coverage: Africa

31.07.2008 Lawyers at the International Criminal Court are concerned over the absence of protection for so-called intermediaries who communicate between victims in Darfur and the Congo and lawyers in The Hague.

28.07.2008 The British water company Biwater has failed in its bid to claim up to $20 million in damages from the Tanzanian government following the collapse of a controversial water privatisation contract in 2005.

25.07.2008 Attacks on aid workers on the ground and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia are jeopardising the lives of millions who now need urgent food assistance, warns the World Food Programme.

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

25.07.2008 An area of the Democratic Republic of Congo containing the largest body of fresh water in Africa has been added to the Ramsar Convention’s list of Wetlands of International Importance, making it the largest region ever to be designated as such.

24.07.2008 Computer billionaire Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have linked up in a $500 million campaign to cut cigarette sales in developing countries.

24.07.2008 Millions of people in East Africa are facing a humanitarian crisis driven by drought, conflict, and rising global food prices, says an international charity as it launches a fund-raising appeal.

23.07.2008 President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, recently accused by an International Criminal Court prosecutor of genocide in Darfur, is on a two-day visit to the province.

21.07.2008 Attacks on aid workers and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia are jeopardising the lives of millions who need urgent food assistance, the World Food Programme warns.
+ Humanitarian crisis deepens amid growing insecurity

16.07.2008 Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have been given the go-ahead to make a single sale of a total of 108 tons of government-owned ivory.
+ China gets green light to buy ivory
+ How ivory from 11,000 elephants has disappeared into China's black market

14.07.2008 South Africa’s Housing Minister Dr Lindiwe Sisulu and Jockin Arputham, founder of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation, call on aid agencies and development banks to support an innovative way of tackling problems in the world's slums and squatter settlements, which a billion people call home.

09.07.2008 An attack on the joint United Nations-African Union force in Darfur has killed seven peacekeepers and wounded 22, seven of them critically.
+ Latest killing of food convoy driver marks fourth loss for UN agency this year

09.07.2008 Three years after it was first proposed, preparations for an African 'wall of trees' to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting underway.

09.07.2008 A truck driver delivering aid for the UN World Food Programme was gunned down in southern Somalia, the fourth such loss for the agency this year.

07.07.2008 Smallholder farmers who provide the backbone of African food production may be ignored once again, a development group warned ahead of today's meeting between G8 leaders and African heads of state.
+ Rich countries' response to food crisis inadequate
+ No more empty words

03.07.2008 The number of doctors required and those available globally by 2015 will be roughly in balance, but huge disparities in distribution will mean most African countries will face shortages, according to a new study.

02.07.2008 Zimabwe's President Robert Mugabe may now be setting his sights on new political opponents - this time within his own ZANU-PF party.

01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.