Full Coverage: Central Africa

03.11.2009 Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, according to an international rights group.+ UN peacekeeping chief calls for probe into killings by armed forces

14.10.2009 Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone Chad, and Ethiopia score worst in a Global Hunger Index, which links the problem to gender inequalities.

14.10.2009 The Congolese government’s military operation in eastern Congo, backed by UN peacekeepers and aimed at neutralising the threat from a Rwandan Hutu militia group, has resulted in an unacceptable cost for the civilian population, says an NGO coalition.
+ Congolese government should push companies to be more rigorous

05.10.2009 The International Monetary Fund should withdraw its plan for a multi-million-dollar loan to Angola unless there are "stringent conditions" that require the opening up of the country's oil industry to public scrutiny, an anti-corruption watchdog said ahead of the IMF's annual meeting in Turkey.

30.09.2009 Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new report reveals.

01.09.2009 A community in north-eastern Congo is living in constant fear of attacks from a Ugandan rebel group, the head of the UN Children's Fund warned yesterday.

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.

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.

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.

23.06.2009 Africa has entered a new stage – of state-making, French academic Gerard Prunier told a meeting in London last week.

03.05.2009 Artists, writers, musicians and human rights activists will be showing their solidarity with the people of Congo under the banner of Congo Now! on 7 May at London’s South Bank Centre.

27.04.2009 Atrocities are being committed against villagers in remote areas of Eastern Congo, where fighting between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel group continues, said an international development agency.

07.04.2009 The humanitarian crisis in DR Congo is as severe as it was in late 2008, an international agency said today as it announced that it was scaling up its emergency response to reach an additional 150,000 displaced people.

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.

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.

29.01.2009 Cameroon's government has routinely used killings and torture to repress political dissent, according to a new report.
+ OneWorld Guide to Cameroon

27.01.2009 Mountain gorilla numbers in Congo's Virunga National Park have increased, despite the war in and around the area, according to the first count to take place for over a year.

26.01.2009 Would global poverty feature in the new president's inauguration speech? Yes it did, but let's hope that Barack Obama adopts rather less biblical language when it comes to real policy.

25.01.2009 A 2008 article traces the experience of Lilianne Nyatcha who is fighting oppression on behalf of women journalists in Cameroon