Full Coverage: North Africa

30.09.2005 As the Interim Legislative Council of southern Sudan, which brings together many former military and political adversaries, was officially inaugurated in Juba, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese were trekking home in a previously unreported migration of displaced people.

30.09.2005 Tunisia's continuing rights abuses make it an unsuitable place to hold this year's United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, concludes the latest report of the Tunisia Monitoring Group.

29.09.2005 Continuing violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur is hindering humanitarian efforts and creating a chaotic situation there, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, warned this week.

28.09.2005 The Janjaweed, a militia group allegedly allied to the Sudanese government, must be disarmed if peace is to return to the country's Darfur region, the U.N.'s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide said Monday.

23.09.2005 Before his death in August, Sudan's first Vice President John Garang issued an ultimatum that come November, Northern Uganda's rebels operating out of southern Sudan would face military action if they failed to disband. With Garang out of the picture, the rebels continue to be active, killing 17 in one recent attack.

21.09.2005 In a further escalation of the conflict in western Sudan, rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army have seized the previously government-controlled town of Shareya, northeast of Nyala, capital of South Darfur State, aid workers reported.

19.09.2005 A nutritional assessment conducted by Action Against Hunger in southern Sudan has found malnutrition "at or above the rates currently observed in Niger." The group is imploring the international community to focus resources on the nutritional crisis, which it says is being overlooked amidst the improving political situation.

19.09.2005 UNESCO will support the organisation of the second World Electronic Media Forum that will be held in Tunis from 15 to 16 November 2005, in connection with the second phase of World Summit on the Information Society.

13.09.2005 Karen Banks, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has recently issued a statement for stakeholders to sign a petetion protesting deterioration of human rights in Tunisia, with the Summit just 2 months away. The statement calls on all governments to "fully recognize the sovereignty of the situation and to bring pressure to bear on the Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations".

08.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 8 (OneWorld) - Hundreds of activists descended on the White House Thursday to protest what they called President George W. Bush's inaction in the year since his administration said that genocide was taking place in Sudan's western Darfur region.

08.09.2005 A year since the Bush Administration declared that genocide was occuring in Darfur, little has been done to stop the violence and protect the people, says Africa Action, and asks you to call President Bush and help stop the genocide that is happening in Darfur.