Full Coverage: Africa

26.02.2009 The UN has intervened in two African political controversies, with Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon calling for the release of Zimbabwean detainees and a United Nations independent human rights expert calling on Kenya to end “systematic, widespread and carefully planned” police killings.
+ Police killings cannot be ignored
+ Vendors fear selling book on Githongo over libel suits

24.02.2009 Appalling conditions in Guinean jails are highlighted in a new report by an international medical charity.

24.02.2009 An appeal is to be heard next week over a groundbreaking judgment in which the Johannesburg High Court declared pre-paid water meters unconstitutional and ordered the city administration to provide an increase in free basic water allocation.

17.02.2009 Zimbabwe's "massive medical emergency is spiralling out of control," warns a leading medical charity.
+ Mugabe's Daughter in Eye of Student Storm

16.02.2009 Mobile phone manufacturers must audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict and atrocities in eastern Congo, say activists as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona.

14.02.2009 The British supermarket chain Asda came under fire today over claims that workers earn a living wage supplying Valentine’s flowers on sale in its stores for £2 a dozen.
+ Defending the rights of Kenya's flower workers
+ Valentine Day South African wine shame
+ How many more will be raped?
+ Bail for WOZA protesters

13.02.2009 Lovers buying wine for Valentine’s Day are warned that South African workers face poverty wages supplying British supermarkets.

10.02.2009 Over 40 people have been killed and more than 350 wounded during anti-government demonstrations in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo, according to hospital sources.

09.02.2009 In the same week, OneWorld UK gave presentations at the World Economic Forum in Davos and in the state of Bauchi in northern Nigeria. Pioneering applications of mobile phone technology are the common factor.

07.02.2009 Support for Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe's neighbours is inexplicable. Kumi Naidoo and other civil society leaders have resorted to a hunger protest in desperation. from OneWorld US

07.02.2009 Protecting civilians must be a top priority of the joint Congolese and Rwandan military operation in eastern Congo, a coalition of 100 humanitarian and human rights organisations said as a top UN official arrived in Goma, the North Kivu capital.

04.02.2009 Médecins Sans Frontières denounces UN peacekeepers for inaction in protecting the population of an area of northern Congo against the violence of the Lord's Resistance Army.

04.02.2009 The top UN human rights official has voiced her alarm at reports of the worsening conditions for civilians in the south Darfur town of Muhajeria, where fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels has led to at least 30 deaths and uprooted some 30,000 people.

02.02.2009 We're seeing a lot of headlines about global unemployment. But is it really "global" or just a measure of problems for the richer countries?

02.02.2009 A development agency has been chosen to coordinate a team of election observers from four continents in the forthcoming presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland.

01.02.2009 Beautifully written explanation of the contribution of post War history to the structural faultlines that impede development in northern Ghana. Pambazuka News