Full Coverage: Africa

29.09.2008 Sexual violence and child soldiers continue to be used in continuing conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo, a leading human rights group has warned.

26.09.2008 Renewed combat in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has caused a drastic deterioration in the humanitarian situation and immense suffering for civilians, according to a group of 83 aid agencies and human rights groups.
+ MSF provides emergency care as violence intensifies
+ Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As Peace Process Falters

24.09.2008 Refugees who have been disabled by the war in northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in government-run camps, as well as being under growing pressure to return home, even though they lack the resources to resume a normal life.

24.09.2008 Tunisia promotes itself as a progressive nation that protects human rights, but an international media group says it aggressively silences journalists and others who challenge the policies of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and that journalists are subject to imprisonment, assault, harassment, and censorship.

24.09.2008 Ten years since its establishment - despite major human rights crises in Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe - the landmark African court of human rights has yet to hear a single case, says a new report.

23.09.2008 The World Food Programme appeals for $460 million to feed 9.6 million hungry people affected by drought and high food prices in Ethiopia through to March next year.

22.09.2008 More than 99 per cent of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries, with about 84 per cent concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, says a new report by the UN Children's Fund.

20.09.2008 The United Nations humanitarian relief chief has made a plea for more funding to avoid a famine in the Horn of Africa on the scale witnessed in the 1980s.

17.09.2008 Corruption is a serious threat in humanitarian assistance, Sarah Bailey of Britain’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) told a meeting in London.

16.09.2008 Swaziland's King Mswati III led African calls for the international community to help fund Zimbabwe's economic recovery following the signing of a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition.

15.09.2008 Serious fighting has erupted in North Kivu province in the Congo, with 14,000 United Nations "Blue Helmets" unable to maintain peace, says a leading medical charity.

11.09.2008 Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen - would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, says a leading rights organisation.

10.09.2008 The EU-UN protection mission in eastern Chad is unable to deal with spiralling insecurity leaving 500,000 people vulnerable to attacks and abuse, warns an international development group.

09.09.2008 The Angolan government is threatening to close the Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy, one of the country’s most active human rights organisations.
OneWorld's Angola Guide

03.09.2008 Making more long-term aid commitments has been a sticking point for the US and Japan at a crucial global summit in Ghana on how aid works, according to an international development agency.
+ Poor are ignored in making aid work
+ How do we measure up?

01.09.2008 Poor rains in much of the Horn of Africa in the normally wet March-to-May period, compounded by high food and fuel prices, mean that 14.5 million people in five countries need food assistance, warns the UN.
+ Africa droughts
+ Top UN relief official assesses drought-stricken areas