Full Coverage: Africa

30.03.2009 The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here's a selection of what African leaders have to say.

29.03.2009 A tough-talking but constructive assessment of the economic crisis facing Africa. Speech by the president of Tanzania at the IMF-Africa High Level meeting in Dar es Salaam. allAfrica.com

27.03.2009 Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees will face a humanitarian emergency this year unless urgent steps are taken to deal with a serious public health crisis unfolding in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, an international agency has warned.
+ War without limits: Somalia's humanitarian catastrophe
+ Somalia's humanitarian catastrophe

25.03.2009 Mining companies routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to combat poverty, a new report claims today.

23.03.2009 Anger is brewing amongst African governments as their economies are undermined by a crisis for which they are not responsible. They lack the monetary tools available to countries attending the G20 London Summit.

22.03.2009 Not many countries are bothering with MDG progress reports. Here's a rare example for 2008, even rarer for its clear graphics and concise explanations of the challenge posed by the targets. pdf file from UNDP

20.03.2009 Moroccan needs to act urgently on human rights, Amnesty chief Irene Khan said during a visit to Rabat.

18.03.2009 Up to 1,000 Gambians have been kidnapped from their villages by "witch doctors", taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctions, says an international rights group.

14.03.2009 Tanzania is often described as a development success story in Africa. It doesn't look that way if you study the facts of life for the poor.

14.03.2009 Although this paper addresses Tanzania, it doubles up as a really clear exposition of the complex issues that frame this important subject. (pdf file) USAID

14.03.2009 Tanzania's prime minister explains the difficult issues faced in a country which has hosted more than its fair share of refugees. UN Refugee Agency

13.03.2009 Lesbians in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will "cure" them of their sexual orientation, says a leading development group.

11.03.2009 Human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa still face persecution and repression, more than 10 years after the UN called on all states to support the work of people defending human rights.

11.03.2009 Graft seems to be getting out of hand in Kenya and Kenyans are blaming the government for tolerating the vice, according to a new report.

05.03.2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to Sudan to urgently reconsider its decision, taken after an international court’s indictment of the country’s president, to expel 13 groups aiding some 4.7 million people in Darfur.
+ MSF Protests Expulsions
+ Oxfam GB pulls back international staff to Khartoum
+ Save the Children UK's statement
+ International Criminal Court 'working to protect African victims'

04.03.2009 The global financial crisis is hitting poor countries hard, including those in sub-Saharan Africa, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund warned as he called for quick and generous action to avoid the potentially devastating effects of this crisis on the most vulnerable countries.

04.03.2009 A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story.