Full Coverage: North Africa

22.02.2006 Refugees International is not mincing words. President Bush requested $514 million for peacekeeping and other programs in Sudan and they're calling on Congress to put up the bucks...but they need your help to close the deal.

22.02.2006 Public pressure for new action to stop the genocide in Darfur appears to be making inroads with the Bush administration, says Africa Action, but this momentum "has yet to make any difference on the ground."

17.02.2006 Jon Howcroft looks at how GPS and GIS technology are helping to boost farm productivity, while minimizing damage to the environment in eastern Sudan

15.02.2006 Arms are flowing into the conflict-ridden Darfur region from neighbouring Chad, Eritrea and Libya, according to a report by UN experts.

13.02.2006 The odds are stacked against women in Darfur for bringing rape charges, which are often reduced to assault or require a male witness. But hopes are high that the International Criminal Court will be able to change the situation. Christine Butegwa from Femnet reports.

09.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 9 (OneWorld) - United Nations experts are urging Sudan's neighbors to stop arms smuggling into the war-wrecked country. The move comes as advocates press the U.S. government to use its leadership of the UN Security Council to calm the killing fields of Darfur.

09.02.2006 A U.N. panel of sanction experts has urged the authorities in neighboring countries to crack down on unofficial arms shipments to Sudan. Weapons continue to spill into the troubled Darfur region of Western Sudan in direct violation of an arms embargo in place since 2004, and the panel reports that rebel groups are also receiving financial and political support from neighbors.

07.02.2006 Recent activism has forced the U.S. to address the genocide in Darfur, but the newly adopted U.N. statement falls short of a resolution, says Africa Action. The statement, a non-binding contingency plan, does not commit the U.N. to concrete action to stop the violence. Join Africa Action in letting the Bush Administration know that the U.S. must introduce a bold mandate this month!

07.02.2006 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be amending licences as of 20 February to enable Internet service providers (classes A and B) to obtain international bandwidth. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology further said that the Information Technology and Development Agency (ITDA) has granted four licences for e-signatures which would help the local community in boosting e-commerce."

06.02.2006 Militias based in Darfur are launching cross-border raids on villages in Chad on an almost daily basis, killing civilians, burning villages, and stealing cattle in a pattern of attacks that show signs of ethnic bias, an international rights group said yesterday.

03.02.2006 The Sudan Development Association and the Sudanese Council of Churches have abandoned their schools and health centres in the camps in Mershing in south Darfur, following a series of attacks by armed militias.

01.02.2006 In a speech that stressed the need for the U.S. to engage with the world, to reject "isolationism," and to confront "tyranny" and "evil," President Bush failed to mention--for the second year running--the ongoing genocide in Darfur or any action his administration might take to help stop it, said Africa Action Wednesday.