Full Coverage: Africa
June 2009
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30.06.2009
The situation in the Niger Delta is a “human rights tragedy,” warns an international rights group, which says that the people of the region have seen their human rights abused by oil companies that their government cannot or will not hold to account.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] Image: © Center for Global Development
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29.06.2009
While the world watches the stand-off between the Iranian government and protesters, the end-game begins in Nigeria between its own angry mob of citizens railing against the establishment. Nicholas Benequista reports.
more...Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Democracy] [Civil society] Image: A young boy fetches water in front of the National Electoral Commission's office in Kano, the capital of Nigeria's second largest state. In 2007, thousands of residents surrounded these offices to express their distrust of the vote counting. Nigeria's National Assembly is currently considering reforms that might help curtail election-rigging. (Photo: Nicholas Benequista)
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29.06.2009
African farmers and fisherfolk are desperate for more reliable weather information. Kofi Annan's organisation aims to make things happen through the infrastructure for mobile phones. Global Humanitarian Forum
more...Related topics/regions: [ICT] [Fisheries] [Agriculture] |
29.06.2009
Oxfam traces the lessons learned from a rare success in progressing legislative action against domestic violence in Africa. From Poverty to Power
more...Related topics/regions: [Malawi] [Law] [Civil society] [Gender] |
29.06.2009
The new UK climate projections published by the Met Office Hadley Centre are a valuable risk management tool for policymakers. But they also speak volumes about the global failure to protect poor countries from climate change.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Culture] [Climate change] [Agriculture] Image: Cricket clubs will have to adapt to climate change © Bill Gunyon
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26.06.2009
Zimbabwe's armed forces are engaging in the forced labour of children and adults, and are torturing and beating local villagers in the country's diamond fields, a rights group said today.
more...Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] Image: Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
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24.06.2009
Women and girls in eastern Congo fear soldiers meant to protect them as much as they do other fighters involved in the conflict, according to a new community-based study.
more...From: World Vision UK Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] Image: Displaced woman in eastern Congo (World Vision)
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23.06.2009
Africa has entered a new stage – of state-making, French academic Gerard Prunier told a meeting in London last week.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Central Africa] [Conflict] [Geopolitics] Image: UN troops in Congo, 2005 © Christophe Boulierac / DPI / United Nations
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21.06.2009
The Jubilee Debt Campaign points out that the cost of bailing out the failed US insurance company, AIG, was more than the entire government debt of Sub-Saharan Africa. Who says we can't afford debt relief? IRIN News
more...Related topics/regions: [United States] [Debt] |
19.06.2009
The British government must give more aid to Zimbabwe to prevent a humanitarian disaster when food runs out for many people in July, says a major development charity.
more...From: ActionAid UK Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [United Kingdom] |
18.06.2009
The human rights situation in Zimbabwe is precarious, and social and economic conditions are desperate, the head of an international rights group said at the end of a six-day visit.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] Image: Irene Khan, Amnesty secretary-general
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10.06.2009
Africa's many low-lying coastal cities face increasing risks as cyclone intensity rises with global warming. IRIN News
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10.06.2009
Owen Barder quotes figures from Ethiopia to add pressure on the US to abandon its policy that food aid should be sourced from its own farmers. Owen Abroad
more...Related topics/regions: [United States] [Ethiopia] [Food] [Aid] |
08.06.2009
Critics of Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid are missing the point. Worse still, by conducting the debate on her territory, they provide fodder for the anti-aid media circus and damage prospects for the Copenhagen climate change negotiations.
more...Related topics/regions: [Rwanda] [Climate change] [Aid] |
02.06.2009
Violence, sexual abuse, harassment, appalling living conditions and a serious lack of access to essential healthcare define the desperate lives of thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa today, warns a new report.
more...From: Médecins sans frontières Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [Zimbabwe] Image: No Refuge, Access Denied: Medical and Humanitarian Needs of Zimbabweans in South Africa (MSF)
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