Congo-Kinshasa: Peace Campaigners Turn up Heat on Apple, Intel Over Conflict Minerals

The Enough Project, a leading Washington, DC-based advocacy group focusing on genocide and crimes against humanity, is stepping up efforts to end conflict in the Democratic… Read more »

Sudan: Advocacy Groups Press Obama Administration for Tougher Approach

U.S. advocacy groups concerned about Sudan are calling on President Obama to reverse course on his administration's strategy for dealing with the crisis in the Darfur region and… Read more »

Africa: Continent's Population Reaches One Billion

One billion people now live in Africa, says a new report. The continent's population is growing by about 24 million a year, and will double to nearly two billion by 2050, the… Read more »

Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty

Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »

Africa: Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty

Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »

Africa: Best Aid Monitors Are Those At Grassroots

Africa needs to reinvigorate its traditions, revitalize its academic institutions and move away from aid to infrastructural development and intra-African trade, says Njongonkulu… Read more »

Africa: G8 Offers Nothing New, Say Campaigners

Robert Fox, the executive director of Oxfam Canada, writes on the G8 meetings in Italy: Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Threatens Food Supply, G8 Warned

Sub-Saharan Africa is set to lose U.S. $2 billion a year as the viability of its maize crops declines as a result of changes in global weather patterns. Cash crops such as tea and… Read more »

Somalia: Militant Islamists Try to Draw Kenya Into a Trap

As Somalia's transitional government fights for its existence and the region's governments debate how to respond, guest columnist Daniela Kroslak argues strongly against another… Read more »

Africa: Campaigners Attack Italy, France Over Aid

A global anti-poverty advocacy group attacked Italy and France on Thursday for failing to live up to their promises to help Africans improve their education and fight hunger and… Read more »

Africa: Global Crisis Set to Drive Millions Into Poverty, Predicts Report

The global financial crisis is set to drive millions more people into poverty, to slash radically capital flows to Africa and to deprive sub-Saharan Africa of at least U.S. $50… Read more »

Africa: Climate Change Threatens Instability in 37 Nations, Says Report

Climate change threatens to spark violent conflict in 23 African countries and political instability in another 14, a top-level international review panel says in a report… Read more »

Nigeria: Shell Settles Saro-Wiwa Case

After more than a decade of legal battles, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company has agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement in a case in which it was accused of committing human… Read more »

Africa: Continent's Leaders Should Stand Up For Justice

Next week representatives of the 30 African countries which are parties to the Rome Statute, which set up the International Criminal Court (ICC), will meet in Addis Ababa. Read more »

Africa: Petty Bribery Plagues Continent, Says Study

Africans are among the most likely of the world's citizens to be forced to pay bribes - but they are also the most confident that their governments are trying to stop the practice,… Read more »

Sudan: Darfuri Woman Refugees 'Live in Fear of Rape'

Darfuri women who have fled as refugees to Chad live in fear of being raped and as a result ostracized by their families, says a new study. Read more »

Malawi: Mutharika Leading in Flawed Election

President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi appears set to win re-election in polls marred by what monitoring groups have described as the "unashamed bias" of state radio and television… Read more »

Sudan: Civil Society Cancels Darfur Peace Conference

An ambitious attempt to convene a civil society conference on Darfur with the aim of building what its organizers call "a mandate for peace" has been derailed by the Sudanese… Read more »

Sudan: Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize

The hardliners in power in Khartoum have done it again. Like magicians who divert your attention with a bit of flash while they perform their deceit elsewhere, President Omar… Read more »

Sudan: Civil Society Urges Obama to Adopt New Peace Strategy

Three prominent American civil society advocacy groups have marked President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office by issuing an open letter calling on him to build a coalition… Read more »

Sudan: Members of U.S. Congress Arrested in Darfur Protest

Five members of the United States Congress were among a group of people arrested Monday in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC during a protest against the violence in… Read more »

South Africa: Food Used as Election Weapon, Say Monitors

South African civil society election monitors are expecting largely violence-free polls in the country’s national elections, but say party activists have been using access to… Read more »

Kenya: Annan Scolds Coalition Government

Kenyans are frustrated by infighting in the country's coalition government and by its failure to bring to justice those responsible for last year's post-election violence, former… Read more »

Malawi: Madonna Tries to Adopt Second Child

Madonna is back in Malawi, seeking to adopt another child from the country – despite controversy over her adoption of a child there three years ago. Read more »

Africa: Annan Sounds Alarm on Global Economic Crisis

A high-level panel of African leaders and development experts headed by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a call Friday for reforms of global governance… Read more »