Full Coverage: Africa

31.12.2007 "Disappointed, angry, jaded... uncertainty... police state." These are the the terms being used in Kenya to describe the volatile situation in the streets Monday after it was announced that President Mwai Kibaki had won a close and disputed election.

31.12.2007 The UN-African Union Mission in Darfur -- set to become the world's largest peacekeeping operation -- is poised to take over on Monday from the African Union force that has been working to quell the violence in western Sudan.

30.12.2007 Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on Sunday for a second and final term as riots and protests erupted in parts of the country over the election results.
From Daily Nation
* OneWorld Guide to Kenya

30.12.2007 Kenya's Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the 2007 polls and he was immediately sworn in at State House gardens to serve a second term.
From The Standard
+ OneWorld Guide to Kenya

30.12.2007 Desperation, mutual suspicion, mistrust and anxiety provoked by a delay in announcing the winner of Kenya's presidential vote puts the country on the threshold of crisis.
From The Standard
* OneWorld Guide to Kenya

28.12.2007 Sudanin levotonta Darfurin aluetta tyynnyttämään aiotut 26 000 hengen kansainväliset rauhanturvajoukot ovat myöhässä. Konfliktin osapuolet syyttelevät viivytyksistä toisiaan.

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

27.12.2007 Afrikan maiden ay-aktiivit pelkäävät, että ilman heidän mukanaoloaan EPA-sopimukset heikentävät työntekijöiden asemaa.

27.12.2007 The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders.
From UN News

27.12.2007 Polkupyörä voi tuoda tuntuvaa helpotusta afrikkalaisnaisten elämään, Etelä-Afrikassa käynnistynyt kampanja esittää. Naisten pyöräilyä jarruttavat kuitenkin monet esteet asenteista turvallisuusongelmiin.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
From Earth Times

26.12.2007 The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.

24.12.2007 Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.

22.12.2007

21.12.2007 Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning…Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.

21.12.2007 A seguito di una recente visita in Rwanda per partecipare all’assemblea paritetica Ue-Paesi dell’area Africa-Caraibi-Pacifico (Acp), per discutere di rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Acp, l’europarlamentare Vittorio Agnoletto ci ha inviato la seguente riflessione che volentieri pubblichiamo. L’europarlamentare affronta tre nodi rilevanti nell’attuale vicenda sociale ruandese: l’istituzione dal 2005 dei tribunali Gacaca a cui spetta il compito di rivelare la verità sul genocidio, sradicare la cultura dell’impunità, rinforzare l’unità e la riconciliazione dei ruandesi. Per quanto riguarda la lotta all’Aids, il sistema ruandese, grazie ai contributi stanziati dal Fondo Globale e attraverso il servizio sanitario con ambulatori nei villaggi riesce a fornire farmaci antiretrovirali per il 50% di coloro che ne avrebbero necessità. Ma gli attuali accordi che l’Unione Europea intende imporre ai Paesi Acp delineano “una catastrofe”: in un solo anno si stima che il Rwanda perderà oltre 17 milioni di dollari. di Vittorio Agnoletto

21.12.2007 Three Somali women working at an international emergency relief organization in this eastern African country reflect on gender equality and education in the Horn of Africa.

21.12.2007 New European Union market access regulations for developing countries may devastate livelihoods and undermine growth, warns an international charity.

21.12.2007 Pohjois-Ugandaa uhkaa nälänhätä, varoittavat asiantuntijat paikallisen New Vision -lehden mukaan. Ruoan puute johtuu tulvista ja pian uhkaavasta kuivuudesta.

20.12.2007 Parts of northern Uganda face imminent famine, threatening the lives of over 1.5 million people, according to New Vision newspaper.