Full Coverage: North Africa

26.07.2006 The United States, with its unique power and leverage with the government of Sudan, could advance the goal of deploying a UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

25.07.2006 NEW YORK, Jul 24 (OneWorld) - A leading U.S.-based humanitarian group is urging the George W. Bush administration to engage all rebel groups in the Darfur peace process as the U.S. president prepares to talk with the leader of just one particular faction.

20.07.2006 Only international intervention will stop the genocide in Darfur, says Africa Action.
+ Pump up the power to protect

19.07.2006 “What was written in the Darfur Peace Agreement is just paperwork,” says a local leader of the Masalit tribe in Gereida, south Darfur. “After the signing, attacks have increased.” An international humanitarian organisation demands action, as Donors pledge to boost African force.

19.07.2006 As Sudanese refugees and internally displaced people return home by the thousands, humanitarian needs remain massive. Lars Schwed Nygaard describes attenpts to crope at a ruined hospital in the town of Bor.

18.07.2006 A call for urgent action to end the violence and suffering in Darfur was made today by a group of leading aid agencies, which warned that the African Union Force there was chronically underfunded and unable to do its job.
+ Pledging conference must commit to increasing protection of civilians in Darfur

14.07.2006 Aid worker Peter Biro, who has just returned from Darfur, shares his impressions of the situation for refugees, who suffer attacks and poor living conditions, as the crisis continues.

10.07.2006 Beatings, electric shocks and the forced ingestion of dirty water, urine and chemicals are among the methods that continue to be used by Algeria's security forces with systematic impunity, Amnesty International said in a report published today.

04.07.2006 Sudan's president has agreed to a reinforcement of the poorly funded African Union peacekeeping effort in Darfur, but he still opposes the deployment of UN peacekeepers within the strife-torn region.

04.07.2006 From Sudan to Kosovo and Liberia, Mercy Corps shows how soccer can be used to bring people together, spark community reinvestment, and teach young people about HIV/AIDS.