Full Coverage: Southern Africa

25.01.2007 Torrential rains are lashing Angola, Mozambique and Zambia, killing scores of people, leaving thousands homeless and causing severe crop damage. In the Angolan capital, Luanda, floodwaters are still rising and the death toll has exceeded 75 people, with around 50 others reported missing. About 1,200 families have been displaced and aid workers fear that if the rains continue a wider humanitarian crisis could be provoked.

23.01.2007 Tough isolation measures are justified to contain a deadly, highly contagious, drug-resistant mutant strain of tuberculosis and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis," warn experts in South Africa and Canada.
From: Public Library of Science

23.01.2007 Trade unions and labour rights activists will launch a global campaign Tuesday to use soccer to promote "decent work" worldwide, focusing initially on the construction sector, in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

22.01.2007 * Nothing But The Truth is written by and stars John Kani "who changed the face of theatre in South Africa in the last century". It explores the relationship between those who remained in South Africa to lead the anti-apartheid struggle and those who returned victoriously after living in exile; London, from 1 February.

19.01.2007

17.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - Tribal Bushmen began returning to their ancestral lands inside Botswana's largest game reserve this weekend, despite what their supporters describe as a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in relocation camps.

16.01.2007 A group of 40 Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps.

09.01.2007 A group of Kalahari Bushmen will return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve on Friday, following a historic court ruling that their eviction by the Botswana government was "unlawful and unconstitutional" and that they have the right to live on their ancestral land.

05.01.2007 Oprah Winfrey and Gordon Brown - who both recently launched educational initiatives - could do "so much more to improve girls' education", a leading development group said today.