Full Coverage: Southern Africa

29.04.2005 Marginalised groups are the most affected by human rights violations. In the impoverished Northern Cape province, an inquiry concludes that the Khomani San community have been subjected to neglect and mistreatment by local authorities.

28.04.2005

27.04.2005 As Robert Mugabe celebrates the 25th anniversary of independence in Zimbabwe, concerns are rising that endorsement of the recent election results by President Mbeki of South Africa may dampen donor support for the entire continent.

19.04.2005 The Media Institute for Southern Africa has re-launched its website and is back online. For more information on media freedom in Southern Africa, please visit MISA.

19.04.2005 It was a big bash in Chipata Town in the Eastern province of Zambia as Organisation Development Community Management Trust (ODCMT) launched the Global Action Week against Poverty. Scores of children and adults who attended the event loudly and energetically chanted the slogan "Make trade Fair" whilst spotting white head bands, in solidarity with the Global Action Campaign against Poverty (G-CAP).

14.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 14 (OneWorld) - AIDS is having a devastating impact on farms, economies, and societies' ability to feed themselves, health and agricultural experts warned Thursday.

13.04.2005 The Organisational Development and Community Management Trust(ODCMT) have launched the global week of poverty in Zambia to trigger massive support for trade justice whilst gathering momentum to the run up of the World Trade Organisation Ministerial trade summit in Hong Kong.

13.04.2005 THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has launched a newspaper, the Advocate, as an additional tool to advocate for media reforms, good governance and human rights in Zambia

12.04.2005 Tesco will announce its annual profits today, results which will doubtless satisfy the shareholders. ActionAid reports that these margins are coming not from those of us at the top of the chain in the supermarkets but from casual women labourers on South African farms whose conditions are being squeezed below poverty thresholds.

12.04.2005 In the aftermath of the controversial Zimbabwean elections held on 31 March 2005, questions abound about what constitutes a free and fair election. The South African government delegation said the election was free but not necessarily fair. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) took a similar view with media and other observers saying the election was neither free nor fair. The African Union has reserved judgment pending further investigation into allegations raised by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of problems with voters’ rolls and more wide-scale vote rigging. It is worth reflecting not only on what constitutes a free and fair election but on what constitutes democracy more broadly.

07.04.2005 The majority of Zambians have been eating maize meal as their staple food for centuries. But the erratic rainfall pattern which makes the population vulnerable to starvation, may force them to look more seriously at cassava.

07.04.2005 The majority of Zambians have been eating maize meal as their staple food for centuries. But the erratic rainfall pattern which makes the population vulnerable to starvation, may force them to look more seriously at cassava.

05.04.2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the peaceful parliamentary voting in Zimbabwe last Thursday, contrasting it with previous elections marred by violence.

04.04.2005 After ruling Zimbabwe for 25 years with an increasingly iron fist, President Robert Mugabe's grip on power just got a whole lot tighter. Last week's elections - endorsed by regional leaders but which critics say was manipulated - emasculated the strongest opposition party in Southern Africa and gave Mr. Mugabe unchecked control over this nation of 12 million.