Full Coverage: Africa

28.08.2008 As the latest round of UN climate talks closes, Greenpeace has urged governments to pick up the pace of the negotiations which, in just over a year, must deliver a global deal to save the climate.

28.08.2008 Fertilizer applied in small doses at the right place and at the right time is triggering the much-awaited Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa.

28.08.2008 The Kenyan government has failed to support vital peace-making efforts aimed at healing ethnic divisions in the country, following the country’s worst outbreak of violence since independence, says an international human rights organisation.

26.08.2008 Forty-nine patients suffering from gunshot wounds were transferred to hospital from Kalma Camp in the Sudanese region of Darfur after shooting early in the morning.

21.08.2008 A trip in a chartered jet by King Mswati's wives to the Middle East has angered Swaziland women, who took to the streets of Mbabane protesting against the extravagant lifestyle of the royal family.

20.08.2008 Almost 100 people held as slaves in the DR Congo have been released, thanks to the work of activists.

19.08.2008 Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate soared to 11,2-million percent in June, state media reported on Tuesday, quoting figures from the central statistical agency.

18.08.2008 Pastoralists in the East Africa region are well placed to adapt to climate, with investment in appropriate policies, a leading development charity said today.

12.08.2008 Senegal is accused of "waging war" on private media organisations and independent journalists and trying to stifle press freedom.

11.08.2008 Time is running out for the Horn of Africa, hit by the combined impact of failed harvests and global increases in the price of food, according to a development group.

07.08.2008 An emergency appeal to support the millions of people going hungry across Africa in the face of escalating food prices has been made by a leading international charity.

06.08.2008 With reports that up to five million people may be at risk of chronic food insecurity by the beginning of 2009, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is today appealing for $26.6 million to assist 260,100 vulnerable people.

04.08.2008 A shortage of health care workers is having a deadly impact on AIDS treatment and care in southern Africa, warns an international medical charity.

01.08.2008 Major logging companies in the Congo basin are increasingly destroying one of the most ecologically important forest areas on the planet while dodging taxes and robbing impoverished Congolese people of revenue, a new report claims.
+ Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry