Full Coverage: Central Africa

24.05.2007 Leading UK aid charities launched an emergency appeal today to save lives in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic.

24.05.2007 There are gruesome stories that surpass anything you can imagine - stories that have left scars and given rise to feelings of revenge.

23.05.2007 In response to a BBC report that Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the UN said today that an investigation that began last year is still underway.

21.05.2007 DENVER, May 21 (OneWorld) - Thousands of children in the African nations of Chad and the Central African Republic could be turning from the battlefield to the blackboard as a result of international negotiations over the past two weeks.

21.05.2007 In the economic boom since the end of Angola's civil war in 2002, the Angolan government has forcibly evicted thousands of poor residents of the capital Luanda, usually with violence and almost always without compensation, says a new report.
From: Human Rights Watch

21.05.2007 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has criticised the appalling conditions in prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while also suggesting the authorities compile an inventory of earlier serious human rights violations.

16.05.2007 Kerry Smith is in eastern Chad assessing the human rights situation and reflecting on what needs to be done to ensure the crisis ends.

11.05.2007 Chad and the UN Children's Fund signed up for the demobilization of child soldiers throughout the country.

09.05.2007 The Red Cross has raised its appeal for funds to deal with 120,000 displaced people in Chad - largely as a result of continuing conflict in Darfur - to $22 million.

06.05.2007 International donors, particularly Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain and Australia, have been accused of an inadequate or non-existent response to the UN humanitarian appeal for Chad.