December 2

• Zimbabwe: Education Is Where HIV Care Begins

  When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were... Read more »

• Nigeria: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against Aids

  As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing... Read more »

December 1

• Congo-Kinshasa: Wishing the Rebels Would Remain

  Lined up along a dirt path that meanders its way up into the lush war-torn mountains surrounding the small town of Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of young... Read more »

• Kenya: The Economic Cost of Kenya's Insecurity

  The wave of insecurity that has hit Kenya in the last few months is causing severe damage to the country's recovering economy, local economists have warned. Read more »

• Cote d'Ivoire: Anti-Gay Stigma Hinders Bid to Lower Côte d'Ivoire's HIV Rate

  When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been... Read more »

• Africa: Striving to Increase African Food Productivity

  For decades food security and self-sufficiency in Africa have been seen as a distant dream. The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, however, hopes to make it a... Read more »

November 30

• Africa: Calling for a GMO-Free Continent

  South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety's call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all... Read more »

• Kenya: The Price of Ignoring the Sexuality of Kenya's HIV-Positive Youth

  It all started with a fight, one that would change his life forever. Read more »

November 29

• Kenya: Taking the Knowledge of Doha Back to Kenya's Rural Communities

  The skyscraper Qatari capital city of Doha is a far cry from Cecilia Kibe's home in Turkana district, a remote area in Kenya inhabited by mostly nomadic communities and... Read more »

• Africa: Turning Remittances Into National Profits in LDCS

  Remittances to the world's poorest countries reached a record 27 billions dollars in 2011, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and... Read more »

• Africa: Africans in Bid to Save Kyoto

  African negotiators attending the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Qatar say they are determined to ensure that developed countries do not let the Kyoto Protocol die as... Read more »

November 28

• Angola: Chinese and Brazilian Firms Building the New Angola

  "In Luanda there are no matches." This was the first line of a report written by Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the Angolan capital in 1977. Read more »

• South Sudan: Nation Oiling Up for Self-Reliance

  As South Sudan continues negotiations with Sudan regarding the resumption of oil production and transit, the South Sudanese government says that it is developing its own industry... Read more »

November 27

• Africa: COP18, Another 'Conference of Polluters'? [interview]

  Busani Bafana interviews political economist and also the director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa Professor Patrick Bond Read more »

• Africa: Development Targets Ride on Vitamins

  One hundred and ninety million - that's more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined. It is also the number of children affected by vitamin A deficiency around... Read more »

• Senegal: Developing Urban Agriculture

  Watering cans in hand, men and women move back and forth between the wells and water storage tanks and the crops they're watering: carrots, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, and potatoes,... Read more »

November 26

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting Threatens Children

  Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the... Read more »

November 23

• Africa: Calling for a GMO-Free Continent

  South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety's call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all... Read more »

• Africa: Keeping African Roots Alive in Brazil

  A Nigerian diviner dances and sings next to a Brazilian priest of the Candomblé religion, brought to this South American country by African slaves, that is now being rescued... Read more »

November 22

• Ethiopia: Govt Throttles Rights Groups

  The world received contradictory signals about Ethiopia's human rights record when in the same week it was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a major German... Read more »

• Kenya: Activists Expose Corrupt Politicians

  A new website linking corruption and other scandals to high-ranking Kenyan politicians, created by a team of political provocateurs, has become one of the most-visited web pages in... Read more »

November 21

• Africa: Building BRICS

  Will the BRICS expand into the BRICSIT? Read more »

• Somalia: Tough Foreign Policy Challenges for 'Iron Lady'

  As little-known politician Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan was sworn in as Somalia's first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister on Monday Nov. 19, the stateswoman who hails... Read more »

November 20

• Angola: Did War Help Unify the Country? [interview]

  A visitor to Angola might be surprised at the calm surrounding Angola's accelerated rehabilitation and construction of infrastructure a decade after the end of so many years of... Read more »

November 19

• Africa: Fixing the 'Silent' Sanitation Crisis

  Organisers of this year's World Toilet Day, which falls on Nov. 19, are using the slogan 'I give a shit - do you?' to break the silence around the crucial issue of sanitation and... Read more »