Full Coverage: North Africa

18.11.2009 Aminatou Haidar, winner of two US human rights awards, is on hunger strike in support of her demand that the Spanish and Moroccan authorities allow her back to Western Sahara.

09.11.2009 Journalists from Azerbaijan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia will be presented with International Press Freedom Awards this month.

30.09.2009 Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new report reveals.

07.09.2009 Serious questions about whether Sudan's oil revenues are being shared fairly could jeopardise the peace agreement which bought an end to the conflict between one of Africa’s longest-running wars, says a new report.

04.09.2009 As a Sudanese court prepared to resume its trial of journalist Lubna Hussein for wearing trousers, a rights group called on the government to withdraw the charges and repeal the law used to justify the flogging of women for wearing "indecent" clothing.

31.08.2009 Although driftnets have been banned in the Mediterranean since 2003 a large fleet continues to operate business as usual in Morocco, targeting swordfish for the European market.

31.07.2009 The ineffective UN force in Darfur must be strengthened if the international community is to fulfill its obligations, say an influential group of NGOs.

06.05.2009 Following recent outbreaks of violence between rival ethnic groups in Jonglei State, southern Sudan, an international medical charity medical is treating wounded from both sides, assisting those who fled their villages, and treating malnutrition and cholera.

16.04.2009 Oxfam has formally submitted an appeal against its expulsion from northern Sudan and warned that the humanitarian situation in Darfur is worsening following the expulsion of NGOs, with people facing shortages of water and other aid.

14.04.2009 Sudan has executed nine people who may have been innocent, a leading rights group said today in reaction to the killing of nine men convicted of murder after they were tortured to confess.

13.04.2009 The joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region reported that the security situation is now relatively calm despite continuing banditry and carjacking.

20.03.2009 Moroccan needs to act urgently on human rights, Amnesty chief Irene Khan said during a visit to Rabat.

11.03.2009 Human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa still face persecution and repression, more than 10 years after the UN called on all states to support the work of people defending human rights.

05.03.2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to Sudan to urgently reconsider its decision, taken after an international court’s indictment of the country’s president, to expel 13 groups aiding some 4.7 million people in Darfur.
+ MSF Protests Expulsions
+ Oxfam GB pulls back international staff to Khartoum
+ Save the Children UK's statement
+ International Criminal Court 'working to protect African victims'

04.02.2009 The top UN human rights official has voiced her alarm at reports of the worsening conditions for civilians in the south Darfur town of Muhajeria, where fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels has led to at least 30 deaths and uprooted some 30,000 people.

16.01.2009 The incoming Obama administration must act swiftly to help alleviate suffering and end the violence in Darfur, said the Save Darfur organisation as it welcomed Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton's promise to end the conflict.

09.01.2009 Civilians in all regions of Sudan face a serious risk of renewed violence and conflict if the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement fails, says a new report.

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

15.12.2008 Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo yesterday jointly attacked the rebel Uganda movement, the Lord's Resistance Army, in eastern Congo's Garamaba forest.

21.11.2008 The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has presented evidence against three rebel commanders for their role in last year’s deadly attack against peacekeepers in the Sudanese region of Darfur.