Full Coverage: Central Africa

19.10.2005 Flores Sukula is a 19-year-old asylum seeker from DRC whose family was one of the first to be made destitute under the UK’s new asylum laws. Read her speech to a meeting in parliament this week.

10.10.2005 As a result of two decades of decreasing economic activities, Cameroon is now in a serious financial crisis that is threatening the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, reports IPS.

07.10.2005 Ninety teachers from Central, Western and Volta Regions of Africa would by the end of the year undergo ICT training to prepare students for the "i2cap"ICT Competition scheduled to take place at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in November and December 2005. The coordinator of the project, Mr. Ebenezer Kye-Mensah said.

05.10.2005 Film-maker Kim Longinotto took it as a challenge when the compere at last year's OneWorld Broadcasting Trust’s media awards ceremony said he hoped that the following year's event would include films with positive images of Africa. “It got me thinking,” recalls Longinotto. “Every film on Africa seemed to be about AIDS or refugees or war. I took it as a direct challenge.” The result of her thoughts can be seen in London on 26 and 28 October.

05.10.2005 A natural dam in the northwest of the country needs urgent attention to prevent erosion that will release a torrent of water and poisonous gas clouds, warned a UN expert.

03.10.2005 Uganda's president has given the Kinshasa government and its UN allies two months to disarm rebels based in Eastern Congo and intent on toppling the Ugandan government. If they do not, Ugandan troops will enter Congolese territory to accomplish the task, he warned, evoking memories of a 1998 invasion that brought six armies into a brutal regional conflict.