October 26

• Africa: Regional Trade Key to African Food Security, World Bank Says

  The World Bank is urging African countries to strengthen regional food trade, suggesting that food security could be greatly enhanced simply by allowing farmers to trade more... Read more »

October 25

• Uganda: Stop Eating Chimps, Conservationists Say

  Conservationists struggling to protect the remaining population of Ugandan chimpanzees have raised concerns that people around wildlife reserves in the west of the country have... Read more »

• Africa: Entrepreneurs and Women - Keys to Growth in Africa

  The international financial crash of the late 2000s created more than a global economic recession: it accentuated popular doubts about the paradigms on which our economies are... Read more »

• Uganda: Nile Powers Uganda Slowly

  Uganda is facing the unwelcome possibility of increased costs for building a projected 600-megawatt hydropower plant at the Karuma Falls, on the Victoria Nile, owing to... Read more »

• Congo-Brazzaville: Schools Still Shattered After Arms Explosion

  Three weeks after the new school year began in Brazzaville, many students in the capital of the Republic of the Congo have yet to attend a single class. The city is still trying to... Read more »

October 24

• Cameroon: Cooperatives Cushion the Blows of Hunger

  "One in eight people goes to sleep hungry every day," according to the 'State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012', a document released annually by the Food and Agriculture... Read more »

October 22

• Africa: The Face of Food Security Is Female

  In a major endorsement for investment in women - the bulk of food growers in the developing world - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food security could not be... Read more »

• Mozambique: Cooperatives Help Women Farmers Tighten Ranks

  It is a tried and tested truth that when women come together in groups they can address their issues more powerfully than they can as individuals. Read more »

October 19

• Somalia: Kenya Pushes Dubiously Against Islamists

  A Kenyan military advance into Somali territory to push back Islamic militants has had some measured military success - but is not without controversy. Read more »

• Africa: Politics of War Crimes Trials Under Spotlight

  Ten years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its doors in The Hague, the United Nations Security Council held its first open discussion on the role of the court,... Read more »

October 18

• Malawi: Govt Debates Europe Trade Deal

  Malawi has opened up negotiations on the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, which have been deadlocked since 2002. Read more »

October 17

• Nigeria: Locals Caught Between Extremists and Army

  Locals in the city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno have intensified their calls for the military to withdraw from the town, the stronghold of the Islamist... Read more »

October 16

• Malawi: Law Fails to Protect Children

  Patrick Martin, 14, and his brother Mayeso, 15, are safely home for the moment with their mother and other siblings in Kasonya village, Phalombe District in southern Malawi, after... Read more »

• Senegal: Village Project Helps Rural Producers in Senegal

  Increased harvests in the northern Senegalese community of Léona provide evidence of the benefits of multifaceted support for agriculture. But as their yields grow, farmers... Read more »

• Cameroon: Giving Women Land, Giving Them a Future

  Clarisse Kimbi barely ekes out a living from a tiny parcel of land in Kom village in the North West Region of Cameroon. Today, the mother of six finds it hard to put food on the... Read more »

• Africa: Claims for UN Security Council Seats Still in Limbo

  After 20 long years of negotiations on a proposed expansion of the Security Council, African countries continue to be left out in the cold - even as African leaders complain that... Read more »

October 15

• Malawi: Heroines of the Floods

  For many women in Malawi's disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding. Read more »

October 14

• Africa: China Wants Peace in Africa

  China could soon expand its involvement in peace and security issues in Africa, according to government officials, researchers and academics from both the Asian giant and... Read more »

October 13

• South Africa: Truckers Lose Despite Wage Agreement

  The signing of a wage agreement between transport workers' unions and employers on Friday, Oct. 12 may have brought a three-week long truck driver's strike to an end but analysts... Read more »

• Swaziland: King Faces People's Power

  Swaziland's King Mswati III is under immense pressure following the constitutional crisis that has resulted from his cabinet's refusal to resign after the House of Assembly passed... Read more »

October 12

• Africa: Reduce Poverty in Africa - Educate a Girl

  While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa's children enrolled in primary schools, with girl's enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a... Read more »

October 11

• Africa: Africa Seeks to Grow More, Buy Less

  Africa can ensure food security by producing wheat. New research presented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week shows that the continent has the potential to be self-sufficient. Read more »

• Africa: Untreated Mental Illness the Invisible Fallout of War and Poverty

  About 50 percent of Afghanis over 15 years of age suffer from mental health problems - depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder. In northern Uganda, nearly every... Read more »

October 8

• Sudan: Op-Ed - Polio Eradication - a Reflection On the Darfur Campaign

  It was early July 2004, and Darfur was looking like a war zone - massive human displacements of an estimated one million people, ongoing skirmishes, inclement weather, a parched... Read more »

• Africa: World Bank Refuses Call to Halt Land Deals

  The World Bank has rejected a call to suspend its involvement in large scale agricultural land acquisition following the release of a major report by the international aid agency... Read more »