May 21

• NGOs Push for More Budget On Maternal Health

  Daily News

  SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. Read more »

• Letter to President Obama Regarding the Invitation of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the G-8 Summit [document]

  HRW

  Dear President Obama, Read more »

May 20

• TY Danjuma Commissions Mitosah Centre in Jos

  Leadership

  General TY Danjuma has commissioned the multi-million naira office complex of the Mission to Save the Helpless Centre (MITOSAH), a non-governmental organisation, in the fight to... Read more »

• Financial Crisis - Operators Seek Effective Regulation

  This Day

  Business Recovery Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) involved in advocacy for insolvency law, has advocated for the... Read more »

May 19

• G8 Food Security Alliance Answers Question Hungry People Have Not Asked [press release]

  Oxfam

  International agency Oxfam warned that today's announcement of the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" focuses too heavily on the role of the private sector to tackle... Read more »

May 18

• Repression Intensifies After Border Violence - Human Rights Watch

  HRW

  Sudan has stepped up harassment of journalists, censorship, and arrests of political opponents in the wake of recent fighting with South Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more »

• Long-Term Future of World Health Organization At Risk From Financial Crisis [press release]

  Oxfam

  Ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place in Geneva next week, International agency Oxfam has warned that the fundamental role of the World Health Organization... Read more »

• Oxfam Announces Baaba Maal As Its New Global Ambassador [press release]

  Oxfam

  The Senegalese singer calls on the world to act in West Africa Read more »

• Mission to Eradicate River Blindness From Communities

  This Day

  Danjuma being conducted round the magnificent MITOSATH Centre Read more »

• Chinese Should Respect Local Labour Laws [press release]

  MDC

  The Labour based MDC Party continues to fight for a broad based upliftment of the people by ensuring that everyone has decent shelter, food, education, health care facilities and... Read more »

May 17

• End Discrimination Against LGBTI On International Day Against Homophobia [press release]

  AI London

  Discrimination and persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in South Africa and Cameroon must be halted, Amnesty International said as... Read more »

• UN Security Council - Press Country On Impunity [press release]

  HRW

  Members of the United Nations Security Council should condemn attempts by the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) to prevent accountability for serious and ongoing crimes... Read more »

• Business Leaders Join Forces to Meet Global Health Goals

  SciDev.Net

  Business leaders from India, Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States have joined forces to tackle a wide range of global health issues in the developing world and accelerate the... Read more »

• Nation Faces Transparency Test in Pursuing Oil-Backed Financing [analysis]

  Global Witness

  South Sudan must exercise caution and total transparency in pursuing oil-backed financing, said Global Witness today. The detailed publication of any loan agreement will be... Read more »

• Pickets Protest At King's Visit

  Swazi Media

  Photos are beginning to come through from the picket in London to protest that King Mswati III of Swaziland has been invited to take part in the Jubilee celebrations of the UK's... Read more »

• Valuable Kitui Land Sold Cheap, Says NGO

  The Star

  An NGO has expressed concern over the indiscriminate sale of land in areas rich in coal, limestone and other minerals in Kitui county. An official of Olive Leaf Foundation Brain... Read more »

• Secretary Clinton At Civil Society 2012 Summit [document]

  State Department

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Participates In the Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society 2012 Summit: Read more »

• Clinton Hosts Global Civil Society Summit

  State Department

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. government is working to better support civil society leaders around the world as they work to improve democracies, protect... Read more »

• Literacy NGO Empowers Parents to Support Children

  Observer

  When Rufina Acan, 54, a resident of Gulu was growing up, education wasn't a priority for girls, which explains why she dropped out of school in primary three to help her blind... Read more »

• Civil Society Education Manifesto 2012 Launched in Accra - Tim Hinchliffe

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  Child's Rights International (CRI), in partnership with the Action for Rural Education (ARE), launched the Civil Society Education Manifesto 2012 in Accra yesterday. Read more »

• Group Supports Subsidy Report Protest

  Daily Trust

  The International Institute for Humanitarian and Environmental Law has expressed support to the planned protest by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) over the implementation of the fuel... Read more »

• CACOL Wants Police Promotion Reviewed

  Daily Trust

  A non-governmental organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), said the recent promotion exercise in the Nigeria Police Force should be reviewed in order to give room... Read more »

May 16

• Marching is for Everyone [analysis]

  iMaverick

  If you can avoid the rocks, marching is an essential pastime for all South Africans, writes musical comedian DEEP FRIED MAN, who is not averse to the occasional toyi-toyi himself. Read more »

• DA Versus Cosatu - Any Victors? [analysis]

  iMaverick

  Now that the dust has settled in Braamfontein and the blue tide has retreated back over the bridge, we wonder what exactly the point of all of that was. Who won? The DA's march to... Read more »

• Cosatu Hostility 'Justified'

  SAPA

  The hostility displayed by Cosatu members during a DA march in the Johannesburg city centre on Tuesday was justified, the trade federation said. Read more »