Full Coverage: Africa
February 2007
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02/28/2007
A leading development charity says it is delivering relief aid to more than 20,000 people living in one of the worst affected areas of Mozambique where floods have displaced 170,000 people and killed at least 45.
Read moreFrom: ActionAid UK Related: [Mozambique] |
02/28/2007
The International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has presented evidence alleging that a former Sudanese minister and a leader of the Janjaweed militia jointly committed war crimes against the civilian population in Darfur.
Read moreFrom the ICC * Crisis in Darfur Related: [Sudan] |
02/27/2007
Modernin elämän ja perinteen yhteentörmäys on tuonut hiv-tartunnat maasaiden maille. Olenana Pulein mukaan maasai-elämän on pakko muuttua, jotta taudin leviämistä voidaan ehkäistä. Muutosvastarinta on kuitenkin suurta.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Kenya] [HIV/AIDS] [Culture] |
02/26/2007
Ajatusta maakeinottelusta ei tule helposti yhdistäneeksi valtioon, joka on pääosin autiomaata. Länsiafrikkalaisessa Nigerissä keinottelusta on kuitenkin jopa hyötyä aavikoitumisen torjunnassa.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [North Africa] [Niger] [Environment] |
02/25/2007
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently travelled to Washington, DC. One year into her presidency, Sirleaf reflected on her governments achievements, and the many challenges her country must still confront.
Read moreFrom: Center for Global Development Related: [Liberia] Image: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf © Center for Global Development
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02/25/2007
Armed clashes in Mogadisu have increased in frequency and intensity in February, leaving dozens of people dead and many wounded and driving civilians from their homes, the Red Cross has warned.
Read moreFrom: International Committee of the Red Cross Related: [Somalia] |
02/23/2007
A campaign is being organised to pressure British Chancellor Gordon Brown to use his international influence to stop "outrageous and immoral vulture funds", through which companies buy developing countries debt cheaply and then try to reclaim much more money when the country is in better shape.
Read more* Stop the Debt Vultures From: Christian Aid, Jubilee Debt Campaign Related: [United Kingdom] [Zambia] Image: Break the chains of debt © Christian Aid
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02/23/2007
Each time Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Africa, he leaves a bigger Chinese footprint on the continent. This February, Hu made his most visible push yet for settlement of the Darfur crisis.
Read moreFrom: Policy Innovations Related: [China] [Sudan] Image: Chinese President Hu Jintao visiting Kenya (2006)
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02/23/2007
An epidemic of acute watery diarrhoea has caused hundreds of deaths in Ethiopia.
Read moreFrom: African Medical & Research Foundation Related: [Ethiopia] |
02/22/2007
Zimbabwen ammatillinen keskusjärjestö ZCTU on antanut lakkovaroituksen. Jos presidentti Robert Mugaben hallitus ei puutu liiton esiin nostamiin epäkohtiin tämän viikon loppuun mennessä, alkaa yleislakko. Polttavin kysymys ovat julkisen sektorin työntekijöiden palkat.
Read moreFrom: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus Related: [Zimbabwe] [Southern Africa] [Labor] [Politics] [Civil Society] Image: Labour and civil society activists arrested for protest in Harare © Kubatana
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02/22/2007
Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Zimbabwe] [Education] [Poverty] [Health] [Governance] Image: Zimbabwean women marching in Harare with red roses in hand. © The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe
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02/21/2007
As floods continue to displace thousands of people in central Mozambique, Save the Children UK has urged that cash grants should be considered rather than food aid for long term recovery. Paul Harvey comments.
Read moreFrom: Overseas Development Institute Related: [Mozambique] |
02/19/2007
The Democratic Republic of Congo faces disaster if United Nations peacekeepers are withdrawn too soon, an international aid agency has warned.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam International Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] |
02/19/2007
President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed former President Ibrahim Babangida as special envoy at the head of a peace mission to Guinea in an attempt to stem continuing violence there.
Read more+ Video update Related: [Nigeria] [Guinea] |
02/19/2007
Sambiassa odotetaan kohtuullista maissisatoa, vaikka osa maasta kärsii tulvista. On kuitenkin epävarmaa, löytääkö ruoka tiensä kaikkein köyhimpien pöytiin.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Zambia] [Agriculture] [Food] |
02/17/2007
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 16 (OneWorld) - While already finding it hard to get into the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, aid groups say it is becoming increasingly difficult to help displaced people in neighboring Chad as well.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Sudan] [Chad] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Conflict] [Security] [United Nations] Image: Chadians displaced by militia attacks squatting near Goz Beida. © Nicholas Reader / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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02/16/2007
Britain is backing an experiment to change the way aid is delivered in parts of Africa that highlights a growing divide over how Western nations spend hundreds of millions of dollars pledged to the continent.
Read more+ How six-mile trek for grain became a stroll to the cashpoint From: Guardian Unlimited Related: [United Kingdom] Image: Farming © Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
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02/16/2007
Tasa-arvo on tärkeä ja ajankohtainen kysymys Tansaniassa. Haasteita riittää, mutta myös edistystä on saavutettu. Naisten osuus palkkatyössä on häviävän pieni, vain neljä prosenttia. Kiintiöt ovat tuoneet naisia kunnanvaltuustoihin ja parlamenttiin.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Tanzania ] [Gender] |
02/15/2007
The British Governments bid to reverse a High Court ruling in favour of Indian Ocean islanders evicted from their homes 40 years ago to make way for a U.S. nuclear base is in its final day.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [United States] [United Kingdom] [Mauritius] |
02/15/2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 (OneWorld) - Human rights groups spoke out this week, condemning the United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, for claiming the crisis in Darfur no longer constitutes genocide.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Sudan] [United States] [Human Rights] [Geopolitics] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Conflict] [Arms & Military] [Security] Image: Displaced children in Darfur camp. © Derk Segaar / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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