Full Coverage: Central Africa

21.07.2005 Wracked by years of conflict, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo recently requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate atrocities committed in the region. ICC action could advance long-term stability and provide the international community with a new strategy for building global peace and security, reports Citizens for Global Solutions.

18.07.2005 Blaming E.U. and U.S. cotton subsidies, many of Africa's cotton farmers are joining the global movement for fair trade. The global depression in cotton prices is devastating millions of Africans and hampering African development, reports Oxfam America.

13.07.2005 Community radio practitioners gather today from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Niger to attend a week-long training that forms the basis of UNESCO’s “Science of HIV and AIDS” media training programme.

05.07.2005 Large quantities of weapons and ammunition from the Balkans and eastern Europe are flowing into Africa's conflict-ridden Great Lakes region, despite evidence of their use in gross human rights violations, according to new research

03.07.2005 Ongoing fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) eastern mine area threatens the fragile peace and adds daily to the 3.3 million death toll.