Full Coverage: Africa

29.06.2007 As international donors meet in Maputo to discuss Mozambique's development, Elísio Macamo uses the country as an example of how aid can undermine sovereignty - and why former President Joaquim Chissano - a man admired for his diplomatic skills, composure and good manners - got angry.

29.06.2007 Africa will be badly affected by climate change because it lacks policies to adapt, Britain's envoy on climate change for the continent said in Zambia.
From CRI

28.06.2007 GENEVA, Jun 28 (IPS) - Global civil society leaders called on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Thursday to use both international channels and their muscle on the ground for applying pressure on governments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

28.06.2007 In the resolution (2006/46) passed on 28 July 2006, entitled “Follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society and review of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development”, ECOSOC indicated how it will oversee the system-wide follow-up of the Summit outcomes, as requested in the Tunis outputs. This is in the context of the annual consideration by ECOSOC of the integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up of major United Nations conferences.

28.06.2007 When we understand and feel what a denial of human rights means in people's lives we will care enough to do something about it.80:20 believes in using education to enable people to change their world for the better.

28.06.2007 Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Mike Mlongoti threatened to revoke an operating license for Petauke Explorers, a local commercial radio station in Petauke district in the eastern province of Zambia for featuring the president of one of the leading political parties in an on-air paid for interview.

28.06.2007 The violation of minority rights is often a first sign of an approaching conflict, which could be prevented by protecting minority communities at an early stage, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) has stated in a new report.

27.06.2007 ”Vesi on keskeinen elementti, kun maaseudun oloja halutaan parantaa. Jos veteen ei kiinnitetä huomiota, kehityshanke jää ilmaan”, sanoo Amharan osavaltiossa toteutettavan vesihuolto- ja ympäristöohjelman johtava neuvonantaja Arto Suominen.

27.06.2007 The President of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, has agreed to an initiative to tackle the problem of water shortage in the north-west.

26.06.2007 A leader of the Chagossian community - expelled from their Indian Ocean island home by Britain to allow development of a U.S. nuclear base - has attacked the UK government's decision to appeal against the third High Court ruling in their favour as “heartless and callous.”
+ Don't Appeal, UK Urged
+ Diega Garcia background
+ Islanders fight 'the final round'

26.06.2007 Aerosmith, U2, Christina Aguilera, R.E.M. ja Green Day tulkitsevat John Lennonin musiikkia Amnestyn ja Warnerin tupla-albumilla. Levyn tuotoilla tuetaan Amnestyn ihmisoikeustyötä Sudanin Darfurissa.

26.06.2007 Senegalese village women are now able to attend school and learn new skills rather than spending dusk till dawn performing the basic tasks necessary for survival. Their emancipator? A machine.

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1 million children in West Africa would not go to bed hungry if Washington stopped providing subsidies to America's cotton growers, according to a study released Thursday by an influential development organization.

25.06.2007 Mahdollisesti syöpää aiheuttavan Viracept-lääkkeen poisvetäminen markkinoilta herättää huolta sambialaisten hiv-positiivisten keskuudessa. Potilaat pelkäävät, ettei Viracept ole ainoa viallinen lääke.

23.06.2007 Climate change is among the environmental factors causing conflict in Sudan, the UN Environment Programme says in a new report.

22.06.2007 During the week to honor and raise awareness about refugees, discover what the United States can do to help refugees in Africa, read a success story of refugees returning home, and learn more about what causes people to become refugees and the struggles they face.

22.06.2007 Two controlled, imagined communities symbolise the global disorder and social polarisation that marks the era of war on terror, writes Paul Rogers.
From openDemocracy

22.06.2007 A U.S.-based non-profit working to end world poverty has welcomed this week's agreement between world coffee giants Starbucks and Ethiopia for its potential to give farmers a fairer share of the profits enjoyed worldwide by Ethiopian coffee.

22.06.2007 Nick Clooney, the journalist father of George Clooney, talks to newstatesman.com about the desperation of Darfur and George getting attacked by a tarantula.
Form: New Statesman

22.06.2007 Afrikan maiden erilaiset IT-politiikat aiheuttavat haasteita yhteisten tietoteknologiaprojektien implementoinnissa. Keniassa järjestetyssä konferenssissa Afrikan Unioni suositteli jäsenmaiden kehittävän alueellisia IT-säädöksiä maakohtaisten sijaan.