February 02, 2006
Zambia: Cause for Optimism in Malaria Battle
As the rainy season descends in Zambia, hospital beds around the country will increasingly fill with patients suffering from malaria. The disease is Zambia's number one killer,… Read more »
January 31, 2006
Central Africa: Tension Increases in Ongoing Land Dispute Along Burundi-Rwanda Border
A land dispute that resulted from a river changing its course due to heavy rains some 50 years ago continues to vex neighbouring agricultural communities along the Burundi-Rwanda… Read more »
January 24, 2006
Zimbabwe: Govt Takes Radio Station Board Members to Court
The government has begun negotiating with the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) to replace the controversial government-appointed Media and Information Commission (MIC), but… Read more »
January 04, 2006
Eswatini: 13 Charged With High Treason Over Bombings
If found guilty, 13 members of a banned political party may face the death penalty after being charged with high treason in connection with a string of fire bombings against… Read more »
December 16, 2005
Zimbabwe: Police Raid Independent Radio Station
A police raid on a private radio station in Zimbabwe has been condemned as an attack on media freedom. Read more »
December 07, 2005
West Africa: Climate Change Impacting Hard On Semi-Arid Sahel Nations
Three decades of increasingly patchy rains and drought are taking a heavy toll on the people of the Sahel nations, the semi-arid countries strung along the southern fringes of the… Read more »
November 30, 2005
Gabon: Landslide Win for Africa's Longest Serving President
Omar Bongo, president of Gabon since 1967, has won a landslide victory at the polls, securing a further seven years at the helm of the small oil-producing nation. Read more »
November 17, 2005
Angola: Country Emerges Stronger After Marburg Fever Outbreak
The deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbeak in Angola has finally been consigned to history after claiming 227 lives, but the country handled the crisis "very well" and… Read more »
November 15, 2005
Chad: Mystery Armed Groups Attack Military Camp in Capital
Chadian authorities on Tuesday insisted they had the situation under control a day after attacks on military camps in and outside the capital, N'djamena, that left at least two of… Read more »
November 10, 2005
Nigeria: Problems Persist in Oil-Rich Delta 10 Years After Activist's Death
Ten years after the execution in Nigeria of writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his non-violent campaign has been replaced by an armed protest against oil companies… Read more »
October 31, 2005
Chad: Deby Dissolves Presidential Guard Following Wave of Desertions
Chadian President Idriss Deby has dismissed the 5,000-strong military unit acting as his presidential guard, days after the government failed to reel in scores of defecting… Read more »
September 13, 2005
Namibia: Pressure Builds Over Slow Pace of Land Redistribution
Fifteen years after independence Namibians are still grappling with the issue of sustainable and effective land reform in the arid Southern African country. Read more »
August 08, 2005
South Africa: Govt to Consider Routine HIV Testing
The South African government is considering whether to make HIV tests routinely available at public health facilities. Read more »
July 25, 2005
Zimbabwe: Evictions Continue Despite International Condemnation
Ignoring a call by the United Nations to halt evictions of people living in unauthorised housing, Zimbabwean police on Friday ordered residents out of Porta Farm, one of… Read more »
July 12, 2005
Djibouti: Women Fight Mutilation
For thousands of years, girls in the area that is now the tiny African country of Djibouti, have been subjected to pharaonic circumcision. Read more »
June 01, 2005
Nigeria: Obasanjo Appoints Independent Mediators to Reconcile Shell And Local Ogoni Community
The Nigerian government has appointed independent mediators to end a dispute between transnational Royal Dutch/Shell and the local Ogoni community, which forced the oil giant to… Read more »
May 25, 2005
Sudan: Living With the Trauma of FGM
Omnia was nine years old the day she was forced onto a cold metal table by her mother and grandmother and circumcised by a stranger. Now 22, she has never forgotten the incident. Read more »
May 24, 2005
Angola: Poor Still Waiting for Peace Dividend to Trickle Down
Angola needs up to $30 billion to rebuild its war-shattered infrastructure over the next decade, according to a World Bank official, but analysts are warning the basic needs of the… Read more »
May 20, 2005
South Africa: New Ways of Combating HIV/Aids Bear Fruit
One in five young South Africans is HIV positive Read more »
April 15, 2005
Equatorial Guinea: Prisoners Face Death By Starvation, Says Amnesty
At least 70 prisoners being held in Equatorial Guinea's notorious Black Beach prison outside the capital Malabo are facing death by starvation, Amnesty International said in a… Read more »
January 19, 2005
Botswana: Court Case On San Rights Resumes
The right to live and hunt as their forefathers did in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) is the crux of an application by 243 San Bushmen to overturn their relocation… Read more »
November 22, 2004
Senegal: Remnant Mines Continue Senseless Deaths in Casamance
After 22 years of a now-fading conflict, the sentries that never sleep still kill and maim civilians in Casamance, the fertile southern area of Senegal enclaved between The Gambia… Read more »
October 29, 2004
Malawi: Girls Clubs Spearhead Gender Equality
When 20-year-old Maureen Kumwenda formed an all-girls club in the local township of Area 18 in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, she faced a lot of resistance from her community. Read more »
August 18, 2004
Sierra Leone: Lack of Aids Surveys Create Confusion
The lack of nation-wide surveys to ascertain the extent of HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone has created confusion over numbers, experts have said. Read more »
July 19, 2004
Mauritania: Mauritania: Mauritania Government Appeals for Aid to Spray Locust Swarms
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