Full Coverage: North Africa

30.04.2008 Refugees account for over half of those that will need food aid this year due to increased food prices, writes an international refugee agency, noting that violent reactions to the crisis may also force more people to flee their homes.

28.04.2008 Despite an arrest warrant issued a year ago by the International Criminal Court, a Sudanese minister accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur is free and is a "fugitive," the body's prosecutor said.

24.04.2008 A World Food Programme driver has been shot dead while delivering vital food relief to Darfur, the second such killing in two months.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

23.04.2008 Up to 300,000 people are estimated to have died in Darfur since early 2003, when rebels began fighting Government forces and allied militiamen, according to John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

18.04.2008 The World Food Programme says it will have to halve rations to Sudan's Darfur region because attacks on its trucks are preventing vital relief supplies from getting through.
+ Secret police seize copies of six daily newspapers
+ Southern Sudan: Giving birth is deadly

15.04.2008 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

09.04.2008 U.S. intelligence ties with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's state security agency -- part of the global 'war on terror' -- undercut international action to protect Darfur, says a new report from African rights advocates.

08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

07.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

03.04.2008 Without international pressure the victims of Darfur will never see justice and will face even more abuses, says Lotte Leicht.
From New Statesman

02.04.2008 A solution to the Darfur crisis requires a much more comprehensive approach by the international community, including a single, empowered mediator and greater attention to the local context, write two Darfur advocacy groups.
From: ENOUGH Project