Full Coverage: Africa

31.08.2009 Although driftnets have been banned in the Mediterranean since 2003 a large fleet continues to operate business as usual in Morocco, targeting swordfish for the European market.

31.08.2009 The characteristics of HIV/AIDS and climate change could not be more different. But there are remarkable similarities in the reluctance to change human behaviour that both crises have encountered.

28.08.2009 The credibility of Liberia’s forestry reform programme - one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the tropics - has been brought to the point of collapse, claims an international environmental lobby group.

24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.

24.08.2009 Children as young as five working 12-hour days on Malawi's tobacco farms without protective clothing are being exposed to high levels of nicotine poisoning - the equivalent of 50 cigarettes per day.

23.08.2009 World leaders have gone soft on human rights. Hillary Clinton is put on the spot by a questioner. Aid Watch

23.08.2009 In 2006 Zambia earned just $133m from copper exports estimated to be worth $3bn. Trying to rectify this robbery is a tough job for the government, especially given the volatility of world prices. Zambian Economist

23.08.2009 The Kenyan food crisis provides a reminder of the importance of adequate nutrition in sustaining ARV regimes. IRIN PlusNews

21.08.2009 "Deep concern" at political developments in the run-up to the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland has been voiced by the UK-based team coordinating election observers.

20.08.2009 Shocking new pictures show a massive upsurge in the illegal hunting of lemurs in Madagascar that threatens the survival of many species.

19.08.2009 A gunman has attacked a leading Kenyan women's initiative in northern Kenya, threatening its members and chasing residents out of their homes.

17.08.2009 The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been urged to release human rights activist Golden Misabiko without delay ahead of a court hearing due to take place on Wednesday.

17.08.2009 In rich countries we barely notice the changing seasons in our diet. In Zambia, the time of year makes the difference between sufficiency and hunger. Zambian Economist

17.08.2009 More news of the difficulty in lifting rates of HIV testing and treatment in South Africa. Maternal mortality figures tell the story. IRIN News

17.08.2009 Plans are afoot to extract greater value from the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which grants concessions to African countries for US trade. IRIN News

13.08.2009 Malawi is failing to meet the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation in its urban areas and misleading official statistics are hiding the scale of the problem, according to new research.

10.08.2009 The Kenyan government has identified potential construction sites for a nuclear power plant — potentially the first on the continent outside South Africa.

06.08.2009 Photographer Tim Hetherington’s exploration of Liberia between 2003 and 2007 brings an extraordinary range of characters to life: warlords and presidents, environmental activists and traditional
hunters, political hustlers and democratic visionaries.

04.08.2009 As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins a seven-nation African tour, an international development groups says she needs to focus on the poorest and not just oil-, timber- and gas-exporting countries.

03.08.2009 Conflicts in Afghanistan, China, Chechnya and Nigeria deteriorated in July 2009 and the situation in Guinea-Bissau improved, according to the International Crisis Group.