Full Coverage: Africa

31.08.2007 Suomen Etelä-Afrikan suurlähettilään Heikki tuunasen mukaan monesta Afrikan maasta puuttuvat kansanvallan perinteet, mikä vaikeuttaa konfliktien ratkaisemista. Tuunasen lisäksi Afrikan ongelmia pohtivat maamme Etiopian, Egyptin ja Nigerian suurlähettiläät ulkoasiainministeriön telttatapahtumassa.

31.08.2007 Kansainvälinen apu on lievittänyt Pohjois-Somaliassa riehunutta koleraepidemiaa. Kansainvälisen Solidaarisuussäätiön ripeä reagointi auttoi säästämään monia ihmishenkiä, ja avusta hyötyi yli 30 000 ihmistä Somalimaassa.

31.08.2007 The Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association (ZISPA) says it is struggling to raise funds to buy intercepting equipment currently pegged at US$1 million each in a fresh huddle for the Harare authorities.

31.08.2007 THE East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a project to wire up several African countries with high-speed optical fibre, is not living up to its name. The plan, hatched in 2003, was simple enough: lay an 9,900km (6,200-mile) submarine cable along the east coast of the continent, from Sudan to South Africa, touching at several points along the way, and then link it up with the rest of the world. But the scheme has become entangled in disagreements between operators and governments over its business model.

31.08.2007 A coalition of Botswana Civil society organisations that include the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Botswana , the Ditshwanelo-Centre for Human Rights and the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) have expressed disappointment following the refusal of the ruling party members of parliament to grant the opposition members a postponement of the discussion and voting on amendments to the Intelligence and Security Services Bill.

31.08.2007 The populations of the rural areas where telecentres exist are not sensitised enough on the importance of such technology.

31.08.2007 It's time for Kenya's women to send more women to parliament, says Florence Machio, noting that a female minister of health has done more for women in the past four years than her male predecessors ever did. But in Kenya, electing women has proven an uphill battle.

30.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (OneWorld) - One of the most favorable yet systematically overlooked characteristics of solar, wind, biomass, and other types of organic energy is their universality.

29.08.2007 A beautiful photo essay speaks to the importance of education, both as an enjoyable sanctuary for children in crisis situations and as a means to end the cycles of violence and poverty that engulf their lives.

29.08.2007 Algeria and the United States have ratified a second agreement which is extending over the next five years, to cooperate in science and technology.

29.08.2007 Sambialaiset poliisit pidättivät zimbabwelaisen eteläisen Afrikan kehityskomitean (SADC) kansalaisjärjestöfoorumiin osallistuneen Tapera Kapuyan 16. elokuuta. Kapuya pidätettiin, kun hän kantoi Zimbabwen presidenttiä arvostelevaa julistetta.

29.08.2007 Zimbabwean lawyers who attended the just ended Southern African Development Committee (SADC) Civil Society Forum found themselves busy as they came to the rescue of Tapera Kapuya the co-ordinator of the National Constitutional Assembly’s South African office who had been detained by Zambia authorities.

29.08.2007 African Dark Fibre Communications Ltd is at an advanced stage of negotiation with the South African Power Pool companies to lay fibre to connect the member countries. In this week’s issue it has issued a request for Expressions of Interest from contractors.

28.08.2007 South Africa's Health Department has recalled 20 million potentially defective condoms approved by an official accused of taking bribes from a manufacturer.
From: Mail and Guardian (South Africa)

28.08.2007 The environmentally sustainable practice of planting shrubs and tree seedlings throughout crop fields is helping rural farmers from central Kenya raise productivity and reap meaningful profits.

24.08.2007 New photo evidence shows that the Sudanese government is continuing to deploy offensive military equipment in Darfur, despite the UN arms embargo and peace agreements, according to Amnesty International.

24.08.2007 Suomeen syyskuussa saapuvan kätilö Ugaso Jaman mukaan 98 prosenttia naisista on ympärileikattu Somalimaassa, jossa silpomista ei kielletä lailla. Jama on onnistunut kyseenalaistamaan vahingollisen kulttuuriperinteen, koska osaa ammattimaisesti perustella mielipiteensä ja tuntee yhteisön ajattelutavat.

23.08.2007 A British court's bar on the return of asylum-seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo until it was proved safe to do so was welcomed by the Refugee Council. which said the case should never have gone to court.

23.08.2007 Improved nutrition cannot replace drugs in the treatment of people infected with HIV or tuberculosis, the Academy of Science of South Africa says in a report that effectively rebukes health ministry support for the use of beetroot, lemons and garlic to treat HIV.

23.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.