Sudan: South African Minister Confident on Darfur Helicopters

South Africa's defence minister said today he was confident that countries outside Africa would provide the helicopters and other military equipment needed by UNAMID, the hybrid… Read more »

Kenya: Research Points to Election Fraud

Karuti Kanyinga, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Nairobi, explains in these excerpts from an AllAfrica interview why analysts… Read more »

Kenya: Rights Activist Pinpoints Reforms to Resolve Crisis

L. Muthoni Wanyeki, executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, recently spoke to AllAfrica about a wide range of aspects of the crisis that erupted over Kenya’s… Read more »

Kenya: Rights Activist Pushes for UN Action

The chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Maina Kiai, has been one of the country's leading independent voices since the beginning of the crisis sparked by… Read more »

Sudan: Darfur Crisis Spills Into Chad

Thousands of refugees on the border between Sudan and Chad are becoming the victims of conflict within Sudan and a dispute between the governments of Chad and Sudan. Read more »

Liberia: New Army Urged to Aid Development

The new army of Liberia commemorated the centennial anniversary of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) on Monday with a big parade through downtown Monrovia. Read more »

Chad: Rebels Pull Out of Capital

Rebel forces pulled out of Chad's captital, N'Djamena, after heavy fighting at the weekend, news agencies report. Read more »

Chad: Rebels Enter Capital

Rebel forces entered N'Djamena on Saturday and fighting was reported around the presidential palace, but government representatives denied the capital had fallen. Read more »

Kenya: U.S. Govt Sends Mixed Messages on Crisis

The United States' top diplomat on Africa described the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley as "ethnic cleansing" on Wednesday, but hours later the State Department spokesman… Read more »

Kenya: Moi is Not Our Saviour

Kenyan blogger Daudi Were reflects on events in Nairobi. Read more »

Kenya: Dark Cloud Reveals Its Silver Lining

Kenyan blogger Daudi Were reflects on events in Parliament in Nairobi on Tuesday. Read more »

Liberia: Cross-Examination of Sherif Continues

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Liberia: Emotions Run High As TRC Hearings Begin

The dust is finally settling after the brutality that characterized the 14 years of civil upheaval that overtook Liberia in the 1990s. The war took the lives of about 500,000… Read more »

Liberia: Market Women Help Revive Economy

To the untutored eye of a visitor from elsewhere, the markets in Liberia and many other African countries seem chaotic, noisy, smelly, dirty and often dangerous. Traders and… Read more »

Liberia: Diamond Industry Expert Called as First Prosecution Witness

The following entry is reprinted from CharlesTaylorTrial.org, a site covering the war crimes trial of former president Charles Taylor. Read more »

Kenya: U.S. Sends Top Diplomat to Help Resolve Crisis

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is sending her top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, to Kenya to talk to both opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai… Read more »

Kenya: Tutu Joins Church Efforts to Resolve Polls Crisis

Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has flown to Kenya to "assist" in resolving the conflict sparked by President Mwai Kibaki's controversial re-election on… Read more »

Africa: 'Elders' Condemn Human Rights Abuses

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined leading international figures in appealing to the global community to fight human rights abuses in countries including Sudan, Zimbabwe and Chad. Read more »

Liberia: New Study Spotlights Sexual Violence

Preliminary findings of a new study by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Columbia University may have given relief workers the evidence they say they need to focus… Read more »

Africa: UN Chief Calls for Arrests of War Crimes Suspects

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to do more to help arrest leaders indicted on war crimes charges. Six Sudanese and Ugandan… Read more »

Sudan: Darfur Peace Efforts Must Embrace New Reality

Darfur has dropped out of Western headlines again for the moment, eclipsed by events in Pakistan, the Middle East and Iraq. But while the erratic attention of the international… Read more »

Sudan: Rights Group Criticizes Firms Over Darfur

An anti-genocide group has strongly criticized major international companies sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their silence on the ongoing crisis in the… Read more »

Sudan: Lobby Warns of New Darfur Insurgency

An international lobby group today called for the Darfur peace talks to be widened to include groups such as women and Arab tribal groups, in order to avoid more fragmentation… Read more »

Algeria: Romantic Drama is a Tale of Suspense and Intrigue

'The Other World'' directed by Merzak Allouache, is dramatic adaptation of a tale about a young French-Algerian woman searching for her missing fiancé. The movie… Read more »

Chad: Film Tells of One Boy's Struggle for Revenge and Honor

A movie full of action and suspense.   A movie full of violence and entertainment.   A very well put together sequence of action and emotion.   This is what comes to… Read more »