Full Coverage: Central Africa

28.02.2008 Violence incited by a taxi strike against high fuel prices in Douala, a major city in Cameroon, is spreading to other parts of the country, including the capital, Yaoundé.

27.02.2008 Two members of the Chadian opposition have been seized by state security services in a government crackdown on political competition following an attempted coup, writes an international human rights monitor.

18.02.2008 Bangladesh success story, Angolan failure - a new "Wealth and Survival Index" names and shames countries by weighing child mortality against national wealth.

14.02.2008 Given the tumultuous security situation in Chad and the Sudanese government's large-scale attack on three towns in West Darfur, the largest U.S. organization working on African affairs is calling for a "sustained, wide-ranging international engagement [in Sudan] at the highest levels."

14.02.2008 A journalist invokes scenes from her recent visit to a rural hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo before delving into the grossly underreported disparities between the American "Health Care World of Plenty" and the DRC's "Health Care World of Want."

12.02.2008 Many aid workers are leaving Chad given the recent escalation of fighting between rebels and the government, but, for now, most of the 500,000 refugees and displaced people in eastern Chad will continue to receive "at least minimal [humanitarian] assistance."

08.02.2008 The International Criminal Court has arrested Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, a high ranking member of a militia group that committed crimes against humanity in northeastern DRC and the third war crimes suspect from this country to be taken into custody in the Hague.
From: Human Rights Watch

05.02.2008 A UN news service details the current situation in Chad and explains how events of the last two years led to this weekend's attempted coup.

05.02.2008 A powerful earthquake hit the border shared by Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this Sunday, killing at least 33 people and injuring approximately 400.

05.02.2008 The announcement of the world's second largest internationally recognised and protected wetlands reserve in the Congo gets a thumbs-up from a leading environmental group "as a clear sign of the world’s increasing interest in the green heart of Africa."