Full Coverage: North Africa

29.04.2007 As the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, Julian Borger in Chad investigates the origins and contradictions of what he describes as the first climate change war.

20.04.2007 "I saw a child in our feeding centre whose mother carried with her two pieces of wood. What for, I asked. Well, my translator explained, when she was born, there were three. Now she is the only one. So her mother cut two pieces of wood and said, These, these are your brothers. How long will she keep them, I asked. Forever, he said."
Sudan, the crisis continues.

18.04.2007 The Sudanese government should open up the country to the foreign press and the international media should not neglect the "forgotten actors" of the crisis, says a report on the country's press and civil society.

18.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, April 18 (OneWorld) - Though satisfied with the Sudanese decision to allow United Nations forces into Darfur, international civil society groups engaged in humanitarian efforts in the violence-wracked region say they wonder if Khartoum will keep its promises of cooperation with the world body.

16.04.2007 A £5m appeal to sustain work in Darfur and Chad - "the world's greatest humanitarian crisis" - was launched by Oxfam today.

08.04.2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for investigations into widespread sexual violence during attacks by Sudanese Government forces and allied militia in Darfur as well as the disappearance of over a dozen men allegedly at the hands of rebels there.

08.04.2007 Testifying at a Massachusetts State House hearing, faith leader Charlie Clements urged the state legislature to prohibit state pension funds from being invested in companies doing business in Sudan.

05.04.2007 Britain's Court of Appeal has ruled that three Darfuris should be granted asylum on the grounds that it would be unduly harsh to remove them to "terrible conditions" in refugee squatter camps around Khartoum.
From Aegis Trust

02.04.2007 Southern Sudan has paid the highest price among countries affected by a meningitis epidemic this year, and now cholera cases have been on the rise. One Southern clinic has seen over 1,000 patients in less than one month.