Full Coverage: Africa
December 2007
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12/31/2007
The UN-African Union Mission in Darfur -- set to become the world's largest peacekeeping operation -- is poised to take over on Monday from the African Union force that has been working to quell the violence in western Sudan.
Read moreFrom: United Nations Related: [Sudan] |
12/31/2007
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on Sunday for a second and final term as riots and protests erupted in parts of the country over the election results.
Read moreFrom Daily Nation * OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] Image: President Mwai Kibaki © UN Millennium Project
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12/30/2007
Kenya's Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the 2007 polls and he was immediately sworn in at State House gardens to serve a second term.
Read moreFrom The Standard + OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] Image: President Mwai Kibaki © UN Millennium Project
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12/30/2007
Desperation, mutual suspicion, mistrust and anxiety provoked by a delay in announcing the winner of Kenya's presidential vote puts the country on the threshold of crisis.
Read moreFrom The Standard * OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] |
12/28/2007
Sudanin levotonta Darfurin aluetta tyynnyttämään aiotut 26 000 hengen kansainväliset rauhanturvajoukot ovat myöhässä. Konfliktin osapuolet syyttelevät viivytyksistä toisiaan.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Sudan] [Conflict] |
12/28/2007
The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.
Read moreRelated: [Eritrea] [Ethiopia] |
12/27/2007
Afrikan maiden ay-aktiivit pelkäävät, että ilman heidän mukanaoloaan EPA-sopimukset heikentävät työntekijöiden asemaa.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Labor] [Trade] Image: © World Bank
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12/27/2007
The UN Secretary-Generals Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders.
Read moreFrom UN News From: United Nations Related: [Somalia] |
12/27/2007
Polkupyörä voi tuoda tuntuvaa helpotusta afrikkalaisnaisten elämään, Etelä-Afrikassa käynnistynyt kampanja esittää. Naisten pyöräilyä jarruttavat kuitenkin monet esteet asenteista turvallisuusongelmiin.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [South Africa] [Transport] |
12/27/2007
Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
Read moreFrom Earth Times Related: [France] [Chad] |
12/27/2007
The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.
Read moreFrom: Actionaid International Nigeria Related: [Ethiopia] Image: Daniel Bekele, ActionAid
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12/24/2007
Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.
Read moreFrom: ActionAid International USA Related: [Ethiopia] Image: Daniel Bekele, ActionAid
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12/21/2007
Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning
Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Kenya] [Social Exclusion] [Gender] [Politics] [Democracy] [Justice and Crime] Image: © Internews Network, Inc.
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12/21/2007
A seguito di una recente visita in Rwanda per partecipare allassemblea paritetica Ue-Paesi dellarea Africa-Caraibi-Pacifico (Acp), per discutere di rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Acp, leuroparlamentare Vittorio Agnoletto ci ha inviato la seguente riflessione che volentieri pubblichiamo. Leuroparlamentare affronta tre nodi rilevanti nellattuale vicenda sociale ruandese: listituzione dal 2005 dei tribunali Gacaca a cui spetta il compito di rivelare la verità sul genocidio, sradicare la cultura dellimpunità, rinforzare lunità e la riconciliazione dei ruandesi. Per quanto riguarda la lotta allAids, il sistema ruandese, grazie ai contributi stanziati dal Fondo Globale e attraverso il servizio sanitario con ambulatori nei villaggi riesce a fornire farmaci antiretrovirali per il 50% di coloro che ne avrebbero necessità. Ma gli attuali accordi che lUnione Europea intende imporre ai Paesi Acp delineano una catastrofe: in un solo anno si stima che il Rwanda perderà oltre 17 milioni di dollari. di Vittorio Agnoletto
Read moreRelated: [Rwanda] [Development] [Trade] [HIV/AIDS] [Human Rights] [Civil Society] [Conflict Resolution] |
12/21/2007
Three Somali women working at an international emergency relief organization in this eastern African country reflect on gender equality and education in the Horn of Africa.
Read moreFrom: Mercy Corps Related: [Somalia] |
12/21/2007
New European Union market access regulations for developing countries may devastate livelihoods and undermine growth, warns an international charity.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam International Related: [Asia and the Pacific] [Europe] |
12/21/2007
Pohjois-Ugandaa uhkaa nälänhätä, varoittavat asiantuntijat paikallisen New Vision -lehden mukaan. Ruoan puute johtuu tulvista ja pian uhkaavasta kuivuudesta.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [Uganda] [Food] Image: © New Internationalist
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12/20/2007
As UN member states voted overwhelmingly for a moratorium on the death penalty, an influential rights watchdog has challenged Nigeria's claim that no one has been executed in its prisons for several years.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Nigeria] [Human Rights] [Ethics & Value Systems] [Justice and Crime] [Law] [United Nations] Image: Death penalty © Fundación Chandra
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