Full Coverage: Central Africa

28.09.2007 Emergency relief and a month's worth of medical supplies have reached a small town in the Rutshuru district of North Kivu where 4,000 displaced people are seeking refuge from ongoing conflict.

21.09.2007 On this year's International Day of Peace the majority of news streams in from Africa, and it is not all bad.

20.09.2007 A double amputee bomb victim who heads an Angolan disability organisation was thrown off a Portuguese airlines flight to London, it was disclosed this week.

13.09.2007 Police brutality has been a consistent problem in Angola since members of the military were recruited into law enforcement ranks during the 27-year-long civil war, says a human rights group urging an end to the impunity.

12.09.2007 Rich Stazinski argues that, in endemic and high conflict regions like Darfur, “lasting peace demands [justice], and victims deserve nothing less.”

11.09.2007 Chief technology officer from the South African State Information Technology Agency (Sita), announced the launch of the government-wide free and open source programme.

11.09.2007 For all the difficulties in Eastern Congo, the DRC has seen a number of recent developments that will form the beginning of a backbone development plan for the country. Canadian NGO Alternatives launched its extremely detailed feasibility study for a backbone plan and the Government has begun to look at some of the issues that will need to be addressed if it is to be implemented.

05.09.2007 Despite the official end of the country's civil war and last year's historic national elections, the far eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to be plagued by violence, and the number of displaced people is now growing at a terrifying rate.