Full Coverage: Africa

14.09.2007 Zambia’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, Mike Mulongoti, has warned journalists at the state-owned Daily Mail and Times of Zambia not to criticise the government.

14.09.2007 Three companies have been awarded tenders to construct the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) terrestrial. Two companies are Chinese (Huawei and ZTE) and another French (Sagem). The companues are currently doing a survey to determine the route which the cable will follow and also determine how long it will take to link the respective towns they are supposed to cover. It is not yet clear how the network will be run.

14.09.2007 Tell your Congressional representatives -- and thousands of other activists -- what you think about the crisis in Darfur through the "24 Hours for Darfur" online campaign.

13.09.2007 Police brutality has been a consistent problem in Angola since members of the military were recruited into law enforcement ranks during the 27-year-long civil war, says a human rights group urging an end to the impunity.

13.09.2007 Despite the upcoming peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebel groups, the government has bombed a rebel-held town in Darfur, eliciting forceful retaliation from certain militant factions.

13.09.2007 Yli 80 000 somalialaislasta kärsii aliravitsemuksesta, kertoo YK:n lastenjärjestö Unicef. Arviolta 13 000 lapsen vakava aliravitsemus voi johtaa kuolemaan.

13.09.2007 Toimittajaopiskelija Judy Wanderi haluaa tehdä myönteisiä dokumentteja afrikkalaisten ihmisten elämästä. Länsimaisilla tiedotusvälineillä on tapana sivuuttaa afrikkalaisten keinot selviytyä, tuleva toimittaja ihmettelee.

13.09.2007 Afrikan talouskasvu ei edelleenkään vähennä maanosan köyhyyttä, totesi kaikkein köyhimpiä maita edustava YK:n apulaispääsihteeri Cheikh Sidi Diarra kuluvalla viikolla.

13.09.2007 An estimated 83,000 children in central and southern Somalia suffer from malnutrition, 13,500 of whom are severely malnourished and at risk of dying, warns the UN Children's Agency.

12.09.2007 A new World Bank initiative, which will provide clean and reliable solar lighting to half of the 500 million Africans living without an effective source of power, is getting high marks from an independent think tank.

12.09.2007 Rich Stazinski argues that, in endemic and high conflict regions like Darfur, “lasting peace demands [justice], and victims deserve nothing less.”

12.09.2007 Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira has been urged to stop official harassment of journalists reporting on drug trafficking.
From IFEX

12.09.2007 Kansainvälinen toimittajien turvallisuusjärjestö koulutti taannoin somalialaisia toimittajia pitämään huolta työturvallisuudestaan. Suomalaisten tuella toimittajille opetettiin esimerkiksi, miltä luodit ja kranaatit kuulostavat.

12.09.2007 Fysioterapeutti Kari-Pekka Murtonen toimii johtavana neuvonantajana EU-rahoitteisessa hankkeessa, joka auttaa yli tuhatta vammaisten lasten perhettä.

11.09.2007

11.09.2007 Chief technology officer from the South African State Information Technology Agency (Sita), announced the launch of the government-wide free and open source programme.

11.09.2007 Kongon demokraattisessa tasavallassa suunnitellaan parhaillaan maanlaajuisen internetverkon rakentamista. Urakka on vasta alkutekijöissään, ja siinä on haasteensa: verkon pitäisi kattaa lähes 5 500 kilometeriä, ja se maksaisi yli 200 miljoonaa dollaria.

11.09.2007 African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) may be spoiling for war with the global software giant, Microsoft Corporation, over its bid to have its DIS 29500 'Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML)' endorsed by the International Standard Organisation (ISO).

11.09.2007 The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) has denounced a physical assault by a leading sports figure against a photo-journalist

11.09.2007 For all the difficulties in Eastern Congo, the DRC has seen a number of recent developments that will form the beginning of a backbone development plan for the country. Canadian NGO Alternatives launched its extremely detailed feasibility study for a backbone plan and the Government has begun to look at some of the issues that will need to be addressed if it is to be implemented.