Full Coverage: Central Africa

29.04.2008 The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May.

24.04.2008 The Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups must enforce a January peace treaty meant to conclude 10 years of conflict, urged 63 local and international non-governmental organizations.
From: Human Rights Watch

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

21.04.2008 Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an $80bn hydropower project on the Congo river which supporters say could double the amount of electricity available on the continent.

08.04.2008 Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers.