Full Coverage: Central Africa

31.05.2005 Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa proposes a strategy for the development of ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa.

23.05.2005 Three brothers who suffered horrifying experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo found themselves the subject of inconsistent treatment at the hands of the UK immigration authorities. A painstaking campaign has succeeded in obtaining a decision which gives them the right to stay together.

20.05.2005 With the beginnings of peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 8,500 people from the Aero Refugee Camp in the Ituri region have voluntarily returned home--but many still remain. Elizabeth, mother of four, explains what life is like in the camp and how difficult the decision is to stay or to go.

09.05.2005 After a week of fighting that displaced tens of thousands and may or may not have involved Rwandan troops,Congolese dissident leaders agreed to a ceasefire Tuesday. The UN mission to the country immediately announced that peacekeepers and humanitarian aid would be sent to the region.

06.05.2005 A civic rights group from Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province says oil has been a "curse" for the region and has called on American giant ChevronTexaco and others to recognise the dire humanitarian conditions of the people who live there. "Oil is a veritable curse for the population of Cabinda - a source of problems and not solutions," said Raul Danda, who heads the Mpalabanda rights group, the most influential in the northern enclave.

05.05.2005 Azur Developpment will hold a symposium on 16-18th May 2005, in Congo-Brazaville, themed "Linking Information Communication Technology(ICT) research to development". The symposium aims to analyze current barriers and challenges to the increase of research on ICT's in universities and high schools, the impact of research on ICT's on the development of communities, the role of research on ICT's in the Information Society.