Full Coverage: Africa

31.05.2007 Despite pledging new money to fight AIDS worldwide, U.S. President George W. Bush continues to insist on funding programs discredited by the Institute of Medicine, the Government Accountability Office, and numerous independent research studies, global health advocates said Wednesday.

31.05.2007 None of the 48 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries linked through an aid agreement to the European Union have selected HIV as a key area in their funding priorities, an analysis shows.

31.05.2007 As outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a farewell five-day tour of Africa ahead of the G8 summit, a report shows that Africa is still waiting for billions of dollars of aid promised at the Gleneagles summit in 2005.

30.05.2007 Cambia il direttore di Nigrizia, il mensile dei missionari comboniani dedicato all'Africa: con il 1° giugno padre Carmine Curci conclude il suo mandato alla direzione di Nigrizia che ha diretto dal gennaio del 2003. Direttore responsabile di Nigrizia resta Renato Kizito Sesana, mentre il coordinamento delle redazioni è affidato per il momento a padre Franco Moretti. "Dopo quattro anni e mezzo vissuti con passione ed entusiasmo, è tempo per me di ritornare in Africa" - scrive padre Curci ringraziando i lettori di Nigrizia per il loro sostegno e per la loro simpatia. La redazione di Unimondo, che ha spesso collaborato con Nigrizia e con p. Curci in questi anni, lo ringrazia per l'impegno profuso e gli augura di continuare con coraggio e passione la sua missione in Africa.

30.05.2007 With the deployment of UN peacekeeping troops held up, U.S. President George W. Bush’s beefed-up sanctions are not enough to protect the citizens of Darfur, said African Action Tuesday.

29.05.2007 JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (IPS) - About one million people in need of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS are yet to receive it in four southern African states, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a global nongovernmental organisation specialising in medical services.

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

29.05.2007 Darfurin heikon turvallisuustilanteen takia avustustyöntekijät eivät pääse kaikkialle, missä humanitaarista apua tarvittaisiin. Lääkärit ilman rajoja -järjestön mukaan alueen turvallisuusvaje pahentaa kansanmurhan inhimillisiä seuraamuksia.

29.05.2007 Slavery isn’t dead, says Robtel Neajai Pailey: its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation.
From Red Pepper

29.05.2007 British Prime Minister Tony Blair today begins a five-day trip to Libya, Sierra Leone and South Africa that he says "is all about showing that we need to keep re-engaging on Africa as a whole".
From: ePolitix.com

29.05.2007 YK on pyytänyt EU:n entistä Sudan-erityisedustajaa, kansanedustaja Pekka Haavistoa auttamaan Darfurin rauhanneuvottelujen uudelleen käynnistämisessä.

28.05.2007 The Bantwana Inititive will care for vulnerable children in their own communities, providing the educational, social, economical, and psychological supports necessary for their healthy development.

28.05.2007 Euroopan unionin ja Afrikan maiden väliset neuvottelut EPA-kauppasopimuksista (Economic Partnership Agreements) herättävät pelkoa Afrikan maissa. Tullien poistaminen ja eurooppalaisten tuontielintarvikkeiden tulo uhkaavat kotimaista tuotantoa ja ihmisten elinkeinoja.

27.05.2007 The world's 30 million or so displaced people often have little choice but to cut and collect wood for shelters, lighting, cooking, and to make room for cultivating crops. In East Africa, refugees and their host communities will soon plant more than 2.6 million trees in and around their camps.

25.05.2007 UNITED NATIONS, May 25 (OneWorld) - The news that a major investment firm has drastically reduced its business interests with those close to the Sudanese government has emboldened pressure groups involved in the global campaign to stop attacks in Darfur.

25.05.2007 YK on perustanut uuden työryhmään edistämään Saharan eteläpuolisen Afrikan kehitystä ja vuosituhattavoitteiden saavuttamista. Työryhmän tehtävänä on parantaa Afrikan hallitusten ja kehitystyöntekijöiden välistä kumppanuutta.

25.05.2007 Severe shortages of health staff are compromising the quality and availability of HIV/AIDS care across southern Africa, a leading international medical charity has warned.

24.05.2007 Leading UK aid charities launched an emergency appeal today to save lives in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic.

24.05.2007 There are gruesome stories that surpass anything you can imagine - stories that have left scars and given rise to feelings of revenge.

24.05.2007 Angolan evankelisluterilaisen kirkon lukutaito- ja kirjallisuusprojektissa on monenlaista toimintaa. Lukutaidon lisäksi kilpaillaan raamattutiedolla ja pian nuoria valistetaan myös seurustelusta ja avioliitosta.