Full Coverage: Africa

29.01.2009 Cameroon's government has routinely used killings and torture to repress political dissent, according to a new report.
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27.01.2009 Thousands of Zimbabwean teachers who have been forced to spend their time scraping together enough to survive are unlikely to return to school as a new term begins, warns an international children's charity.

27.01.2009 Mountain gorilla numbers in Congo's Virunga National Park have increased, despite the war in and around the area, according to the first count to take place for over a year.

26.01.2009 Would global poverty feature in the new president's inauguration speech? Yes it did, but let's hope that Barack Obama adopts rather less biblical language when it comes to real policy.

25.01.2009 A 2008 article traces the experience of Lilianne Nyatcha who is fighting oppression on behalf of women journalists in Cameroon

24.01.2009 The arrest by Rwanda of the leader of a Congolese anti-government militia could lead to the discharge of hundreds of child soldiers, says a children's charity.

23.01.2009 Hordes of caterpillars have appeared in northern Liberia, destroying crops and vegetation, sending villagers fleeing from their homes, and raising the spectre of a food, health and environmental emergency in West Africa, claims the UN.

22.01.2009 Next week's African Union summit in Ethiopia should put concerted political pressure on Robert Mugabe to end Zimbabwe's long-standing political crisis, which has led to an ever-deepening humanitarian emergency and a regional crisis, a leading rights group says in a report today.
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21.01.2009 Children in rural Niger who received ready-to-use food in addition to their normal diet were nearly 60 per cent less likely to progress to the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, than children whose diets were not supplemented, according to a new study.

18.01.2009 A leading development group is stepping up its cholera prevention campaign in Zimbabwe after finding that shortages of basic supplies such as salt, sugar and bleach are hampering the fight against the disease.

16.01.2009 The incoming Obama administration must act swiftly to help alleviate suffering and end the violence in Darfur, said the Save Darfur organisation as it welcomed Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton's promise to end the conflict.

14.01.2009 Zimbabwe government policies that have led to the collapse of the country's health system are tantamount to a massacre and demand an international response, says the organisation Physicians for Human Rights.

14.01.2009 A court in the Gabonese capital has released five human rights and environmental activists who have been detained since the end of December, but the charges have not been dropped.

13.01.2009 Hundreds of destitute Zimbabweans who have sought sanctuary in the UK today asked Gordon Brown for permission to work, pay taxes and gain the skills to help them rebuild Zimbabwe at a demonstration and delegation to Downing Street.

13.01.2009 Key medicinal plants used for cancer, malaria and other remedies are being over-exploited — potentially putting the health of millions at risk, warns an international conservation group.

13.01.2009 A new surge in fighting in the Galgaduud region of central Somalia has led to many casualties and forced thousands to flee, says an international medical charity.

13.01.2009 Destitute Zimbabweans who have sought sanctuary in Britain will today ask Prime Minister Gordon Brown for permission to work, pay taxes and gain the skills to help them rebuild Zimbabwe.

12.01.2009 After Ghana's outgoing President, John Kufuor, commuted all death sentences, a leading international rights group has urged his successor, John Atta Mills, to abolish the death penalty in law.

12.01.2009 South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned a judge's ruling dismissing graft charges against ANC leader Jacob Zuma, opening the way for fresh corruption charges against him.

10.01.2009 One in every three Kenyans is in danger of starvation due to crop failure and the Government plans to declare the food shortage a national emergency.