Full Coverage: Southern Africa

28.07.2005 After several southern African countries rejected food aid with genetically modified grain in 2002-2003, a heated debate was launched over biotechnology--with the public left uncertain about the truth. In response, IFPRI has brought together experts to discuss the political and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology and the future of Africa's food security.

20.07.2005 Survival International has rebutted allegations by the De Beers corporation in their continuing war of words over claims that diamonds are at the heart of human rights abuses against the Bushmen in the Kalahari.

20.07.2005 South Africa is taking a tough stance on Zimbabwe, announcing on Tuesday that it will impose stringent political and economic conditions on a loan request from its cash-strapped neighbor. Zimbabwe is facing expulsion from the IMF for failing to make debt payments, and strong condemnation from the U.N. for its notorious urban clean-up campaign, Operation Restore Order.

14.07.2005 JOHANNESBURG, Jul 14 (IPS) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela and United States First Lady Laura Bush campaigned in two South African cities this week against the spread of AIDS.

14.07.2005 British supermodel Lily Cole, the current face of diamond corporation De Beers, says she will never again work for the company, over claims that Bushmen were evicted to make way for diamond mining in Botswana.

08.07.2005 Hewlett-Packard's Mogalakwena i-community programme aims to develop the Limpopo Province in South Africa into a self-sustaining economy by providing access to ICTs for improving livelihoods opportunities of the population by raising literacy rates, creating income, providing access to government services, education and health care, and opening new markets.

07.07.2005 G8 and African leaders meeting today to discuss ways of fighting poverty in Africa should urge Zimbabwe’s government to end its campaign of forced evictions, which has destroyed the homes and livelihoods of thousands of Zimbabweans, Human Rights Watch said today.

07.07.2005 Do educators who learn online feel part of a community? Is online teacher professional development intellectually rigorous, relevant and cost-effective?

05.07.2005 The Nepad e-Schools Initiative is one of the priority projects of the Nepad e-Africa Commission. It aims to equip African schools with appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to enable them participate in the information society and bring the continent closer to meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

05.07.2005 Kalahari Bushmen will demonstrate outside the celebrity opening of the 'Diamonds' exhibition at London's Natural History Museum on Wednesday evening, claiming that they were evicted from their land to make way for future diamond mining by the De Beers corporation.

05.07.2005 The Global Networked Readiness in Education survey seeks to aid school leaders and policymakers by helping them to examine the role and effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into formal learning.

05.07.2005 The key topics of this year's G8 meeting--trade, aid, and debt--affect the daily lives of African women. Responsible for providing food, water, and aid to the sick, women bear the brunt of poverty. To ensure the futures of African women and their families, MADRE calls on the G8 to end the aid-trade-debt cycle.

04.07.2005 Lismas Julius, an IT Trainer at the Sengerema Community Multimedia Centre in Tanzania, one of the CMCs supported by UNESCO is giving communities in developing countries access to information and communication services.