Full Coverage: Africa

30.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 30 (OneWorld) - Africans and Americans support United Nations-authorized military intervention to quell serious human rights abuses and violence in Sudan's Darfur and other conflict-wracked regions, said a pair of new polls.

30.06.2005 On grounds that he promoted hatred, genocide, and crimes against humanity, a Canadian court voted unanimously to expel Leon Mugesera, forcing him to stand trial in Rwanda. Jean de Dieu Mucyo, Rwanda's chief prosecutor, said the decision was a major step in efforts to deport others implicated in the genocide that killed nearly a million people.

30.06.2005 U.S. religious leaders have found a common cause: ending global poverty. With their rallying point next week’s G-8 summit, Evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic leaders are pressing President Bush and Congress to boost American leadership and financial commitment to the global campaign to make poverty history--and they are telling their congregations to do the same.

30.06.2005 G8 leaders are urged to give top priority to the needs of African consumers - and that means practical support and fair trade for farmers, not technological fixes.

30.06.2005 "Migliaia di bambini del Niger presto moriranno di fame se le nazioni ricche del mondo non invieranno il cibo necessario a fermare una crisi alimentare divenuta disastrosa". L'allarme arriva dal capo missione di Medici senza frontiere (Msf) nel Paese africano. "Nessuno si preoccupa di uno scenario che i grandi Paesi donatori sembrano avere accettato" - ha detto Johanne Sekkenes. E i dati che giungono dai centri di assistenza alimentare di Msf sottolineano la portata di una tragedia che si sta compiendo sotto gli occhi della comunità internazionale: nonostante i magazzini siano pieni, il miglio è ancora inaccessibile per le persone più colpite dalla mancanza di cibo. Lontano dall’essere una catastrofe naturale, questa grave crisi alimentare era prevedibile. Sebbene il sistema di sicurezza alimentare, co-gestito dal governo e i paesi donatori, si sia impegnato, sulla carta, a fornire assistenza a queste popolazioni, si rivela oggi incapace di rispondere all'emergenza

29.06.2005 Varie Ong internazionali hanno reso pubblico un rapporto dal titolo “Africa; Up in Smoke?” in cui si chiede ai leader dei paesi del G8 di prendere iniziative immediate per le energie rinnovabili contrastando i cambiamenti climatici, altrimenti gli sforzi per eliminare la povertà nel continente africano si riveleranno vani. “Amici della Terra” sta promuovendo una virtual action che si terrà simbolicamente il 7 luglio alle 13.45. Intanto oggi a Londra e all’Aja, in occasione delle riunioni annuali degli azionisti della Shell si è tenuta una protesta di numerosi gli esponenti delle comunità impattate dai devastanti progetti della multinazionale petrolifera. Sul caso della Nigeria è partita una denuncia la scorsa settimana con l’intento di far cessare la pratica del "gas flaring", ovvero la combustione in torcia del gas che fuoriesce dai pozzi petroliferi.

29.06.2005 The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) has teamed up with Italian NGO L'Umana Dimora Onlus to add years of practical EU experience to its Training for Young Environmental Leaders programme. The programme provides advanced training in organisational development, project management and environmental topics in a stimulating international atmosphere.

29.06.2005 In most African societies, children are supposed to be seen not heard. On Friday, June 24, at Eroet Primary School grounds, Soroti district, Eastern Uganda, things were different. Children talked their hearts out as adults in various ranks sat and listened, often uncomfortably.

29.06.2005 Police in Zambia have threatened to charge radio host and commentator Anthony Mukwita with sedition after a June 10 broadcast on privately owned Radio Phoenix in which he read an anonymous fax criticizing the government.

29.06.2005 U.S. aid to Africa has increased 56 percent since 2000, rather than tripling as Bush has insisted, a new study reveals.

29.06.2005 With a vision to provide management and integration of global information on genetic resources and crop improvement for any crop, the International Crop Information system (ICIS) initiative was started.

29.06.2005 The government is under mounting pressure to permit more than 100 Zimbabwean failed asylum seekers to stay in the UK.

29.06.2005 Refugees in Uganda's capital, Kampala, numbering between 10,000 to 15,000, find themselves trapped by government policy. If they remain in the capital they receive no assistance or protection from the government. If they move to rural resettlement camps they will receive aid, but have less of a chance to find work and fend for themselves.

29.06.2005 A new report by the Brookings Institution shows President Bush has significantly exaggerated the amount of aid his administration has provided to sub-Saharan Africa. With the approaching G8 summit and recent aid commitments made by E.U. nations, Bush is facing increasing pressure to be more cooperative internationally and encourage the efforts of poor countries.

28.06.2005 Conversazioni con Renè Holenstein
di Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Emi, 2005, pp. 176 - € 10

Autore dell'opera è Joseph Ki–Zerbo, che è nato nell'Alto Volta, oggi Burkina Faso. Ha insegnato storia alla Sorbona ed è sempre stato presente nei movimenti d'indipendenza dei paesi africani e nella vita delle giovani democrazie. Dal '72 al '78 è membro del consiglio esecutivo dell'Unesco, con il quale pubblica la storia dell'Africa in otto volumi.

28.06.2005 Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Ltd (UWEAL) is training the uneducated women to market their products worldwide on the internet.

28.06.2005 The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its partners as a part
of Society Outreach and Communication Programme have announced the
2005 AISI Media Awards.

27.06.2005 On Friday, special representative Aldo Ajello said the EU may support military action against Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo if they refuse to disarm and return home. Despite a declaration in March, where the rebels agreed to end the war against Rwanda, they have shown no commitment to return freely.

27.06.2005 Six months after the tsunami's waves swept the coasts of South East Asia and East Africa, Lutheran World Relief provides a glimpse of how those who survived the deadly seaquake are piecing their lives back together, with the help of generous donations from around the world.

27.06.2005 Ninety-seven Zimbabwean asylum seekers are refusing food and water in protest over the UK government’s plans to send them home despite the potential dangers. The Church of England has also demanded a stop to ongoing deportations.