Full Coverage: Africa

31.07.2009 The ineffective UN force in Darfur must be strengthened if the international community is to fulfill its obligations, say an influential group of NGOs.

29.07.2009 Nigerian troops are hunting for the remnants of Boko Haram, an Islamist group that has been on a killing spree in the country's north.

23.07.2009 The South African government will crack down on violent protests which erupted this week over delivery of basic services, it said today.

21.07.2009 European and Asian companies have been buying minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo that are funding armed groups and fuelling conflict, says a report published today.

20.07.2009 A Rwandan group is praised for recognising people who went out of their way to save Tutsis fleeing for their lives during the 1994 genocide.
+ Rwanda's Commonwealth hopes dented by human rights criticism

20.07.2009 Disruptions in the supply of anti-retroviral drugs and other essential medical items in at least six African countries are putting HIV patients’ lives at risk, warns an international medical charity.

19.07.2009 An unusual Twitter campaign to persuade the Nigerian government to remedy the lack of electricity. Global Dashboard

19.07.2009 I've been confused by the enthusiasm for male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy. Here's confirmation that it doesn't offer any benefits to women. Kaiser Family Foundation

13.07.2009 A new transparency law in Liberia covering natural resource industries sets an impressive benchmark for global efforts to fight the natural resource curse and should be emulated by other countries, says an international which campaigns to prevent natural resourced-related conflict and corruption.

11.07.2009 Acquisition of farmland in developing countries by food-conscious foreigners could be structured to benefit all concerned. Vox

11.07.2009 Media professionals in developing countries are poorly equipped to communicate about climate change. IRIN News

09.07.2009 Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns, according to new research.

08.07.2009 G8 leaders failed the credibility test on Africa – with unimpressive action, warned a global development agency in response to the Summit announcements.
+ A crisis of credibility

08.07.2009 Food security is a myth, Paul Pollack, founder of an organisation which develops practical solutions to use the market to tackle poverty, told a FARM-Africa meeting in London this week.

06.07.2009 The new sliding roof over the Wimbledon Centre Court represents an extreme and expensive example of adapting to climate uncertainties. Low cost index insurance is a valuable tool for poor farmers but can it work if climate becomes even less predictable?

05.07.2009 Sandra Laing was black, born to white parents in apartheid South Africa. She is raised as white but while at school she was reclassified as "Coloured" and expelled. Her shocked father fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. He wins and Sandra is reclassified white. That’s a good start to a story. But there’s more to come in Skin.

05.07.2009 Adrian is a triage nurse, British of Zimbabwean descent, who finds himself drawn into a drama of ethics and loyalty when he encounters an African baby whom he suspects has been brought into the country illegally.

02.07.2009 Minorities in Africa are at greater risk than ever before from the war against terrorism as well as from repressive governments, says the latest annual Peoples under Threat ranking.

02.07.2009 More than 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their homes this year as a result of significant increasing violence in DR Congo, Sudan and Somalia, an international development agency said as heads of state met at the African Union summit in Libya to discuss peace and security across the continent.