Full Coverage: Central Africa

29.02.2008 Taksilakosta alkaneet mellakat jatkuvat useammissa Kamerunin kaupungeissa, vaikka polttoaineen kohonnutta hintaa vastustanut lakko päättyi. Levottomuuksien taustalla ovat kohonneet elinkustannukset ja kaupunkien köyhien laskeva elintaso.

28.02.2008 Violence incited by a taxi strike against high fuel prices in Douala, a major city in Cameroon, is spreading to other parts of the country, including the capital, Yaoundé.

27.02.2008 Two members of the Chadian opposition have been seized by state security services in a government crackdown on political competition following an attempted coup, writes an international human rights monitor.

25.02.2008 Suomi osallistuu kriisinhallintaoperaatioon auttaakseen Sudanista tulleita pakolaisia Tshadissa. Samaan aikaan Tshadin hallitus jatkaa kovien otteiden käyttämistä nujertaakseen vastustajansa. Tshadilainen oppositiojohtaja pelkää, että maa voi valtataistelun vuoksi kadota kartalta, naapuriensa jakamana.

18.02.2008 Bangladesh success story, Angolan failure - a new "Wealth and Survival Index" names and shames countries by weighing child mortality against national wealth.

14.02.2008 Given the tumultuous security situation in Chad and the Sudanese government's large-scale attack on three towns in West Darfur, the largest U.S. organization working on African affairs is calling for a "sustained, wide-ranging international engagement [in Sudan] at the highest levels."

14.02.2008 A journalist invokes scenes from her recent visit to a rural hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo before delving into the grossly underreported disparities between the American "Health Care World of Plenty" and the DRC's "Health Care World of Want."

12.02.2008 Many aid workers are leaving Chad given the recent escalation of fighting between rebels and the government, but, for now, most of the 500,000 refugees and displaced people in eastern Chad will continue to receive "at least minimal [humanitarian] assistance."

11.02.2008 UNDP tukee muun muassa Kongon peruspalveluiden parantamista ja paikallishallinnon kehittämistä neljän seuraavan vuoden aikana noin 390 miljoonalla dollarilla eli 270 miljoonalla eurolla. Tavoitteena on "löytää pysyviä ratkaisuja haasteisiin, jotka vuosikymmeniä jatkunut kriisi on aiheuttanut", sanoo UNDP:n Kongon-maajohtaja.

11.02.2008 Uusin kongolaisen sotapäällikön pidätys tämän asemasta huolimatta luo toiveita siitä, että merkittävä joukko Afrikan suurten järvien alueella sotarikoksiin syyllistyneitä poliitikkoja ja sotilaita saadaan kansainvälisen oikeuden eteen.

08.02.2008 The International Criminal Court has arrested Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, a high ranking member of a militia group that committed crimes against humanity in northeastern DRC and the third war crimes suspect from this country to be taken into custody in the Hague.
From: Human Rights Watch

07.02.2008 Viimeaikaisten levottomuuksien repimässä Tshadissa on jo ennestään noin 180 000 tshadilaista evakkoa ja 300 000 sudanilaista sekä keskiafrikkalaista pakolaista. Maan humanitaarisen avun tarve lisääntynee, arvioi Kirkon Ulkomaanapu, joka jatkaa työtään Itä-Tshadin Koukoun alueella levottomuuksista huolimatta.

05.02.2008 A UN news service details the current situation in Chad and explains how events of the last two years led to this weekend's attempted coup.

05.02.2008 A powerful earthquake hit the border shared by Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this Sunday, killing at least 33 people and injuring approximately 400.

05.02.2008 The announcement of the world's second largest internationally recognised and protected wetlands reserve in the Congo gets a thumbs-up from a leading environmental group "as a clear sign of the world’s increasing interest in the green heart of Africa."

04.02.2008 I ribelli del Ciad hanno lasciato la scorsa notte la capitale n'Djamena "per offrire alla popolazione la possibilità di scappare": le strade della città sono pattugliate dai militari, dopo i duri scontri di ieri, che hanno visto le forze governative far intervenire elicotteri e carrarmati rompere l'assedio al Palazzo Presidenziale. Il Segretario generale dell'Onu è "profondamente allarmato per la situazione pericolosa in Ciad" ed ha espresso particolare preoccupazione per il "deteriorarsi della già grave situazione umanitaria dei 285.000 rifugiati e di 180.000 sfollati interni che si trovano nel Ciad orientale". Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu si riunirà in una sessione d'urgenza per discutere la situazione. Rinviata la missione Eufor Ciad-Rca, rimane da vedere se la Francia deciderà di intervenire a sostegno del regime o lasciare gli eventi fare il loro corso.