Full Coverage: North Africa

28.07.2007 A new and worse civil war in Sudan is possible unless the international community presses for a fundamental shift in the way the country is governed, says the International Crisis Group.
From: International Crisis Group

24.07.2007 Libya's release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - jailed in 1999 for allegedly infecting 393 children with HIV - has been welcomed by the International Trade Union Confederation.

24.07.2007 Sudanin Darfurin konfliktin osasyitä ovat ympäristön köyhtyminen ja ilmastonmuutos, ilmenee YK:n ympäristöjärjestön Unepin tuoreesta raportista.

24.07.2007 Morocco has introduced a tough law to punish fishermen who continue to use driftnets in its waters.

24.07.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 23 (OneWorld) - Human rights organizations are reacting coldly to President George W. Bush's executive order forbidding the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from torturing, humiliating, or abusing detainees in its once-secret interrogation program.

22.07.2007 A British official has failed to persuade Sudanese authorities to open a new site to accommodate displaced people living in squalid shelters on the fringes of an official displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region.

18.07.2007 Le cinque infermiere bulgare e il medico di origine palestinese accusati di aver volontariamente iniettato, nel 1998, il virus dell'HIV in 438 bambini allora ricoverati all'ospedale pediatrico di Bengasi, non saranno giustiziati. Ieri sera il Consiglio superiore delle istanze giudiziarie di Tripoli, organismo semi-politico, ha commutato le sentenze di morte, confermate in ultima istanza l'11 luglio scorso, per trasformarle in ergastolo. Amnesty International afferma: "Siamo sollevati perché la minaccia dell’esecuzione è venuta meno, ma siamo profondamente contrariati dal fatto che esse potrebbero trascorrere il resto della loro vita in carcere". In Bulgaria, dove la sentenza è stata attesa in un'atmosfera densa di tensione e speranze, il verdetto è stato accolto con un misto di sollievo e delusione - riporta Osservatorio sui Balcani.

17.07.2007 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is to launch an emergency effort to help thousands of people displaced by heavy rains and flash floods across Sudan that have left 30 dead and scores injured. The announcement on 12 July came just days after a multi-agency emergency response from the international humanitarian community said it was putting in place a Common Pipeline system to deliver aid to those affected by the floods.

17.07.2007 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is to launch an emergency effort to help thousands of people displaced by heavy rains and flash floods across Sudan that have left 30 dead and scores injured. The announcement on 12 July came just days after a multi-agency emergency response from the international humanitarian community said it was putting in place a Common Pipeline system to deliver aid to those affected by the floods.

17.07.2007 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is to launch an emergency effort to help thousands of people displaced by heavy rains and flash floods across Sudan that have left 30 dead and scores injured. The announcement on 12 July came just days after a multi-agency emergency response from the international humanitarian community said it was putting in place a Common Pipeline system to deliver aid to those affected by the floods.

17.07.2007 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is to launch an emergency effort to help thousands of people displaced by heavy rains and flash floods across Sudan that have left 30 dead and scores injured. The announcement on 12 July came just days after a multi-agency emergency response from the international humanitarian community said it was putting in place a Common Pipeline system to deliver aid to those affected by the floods.

11.07.2007 Despite 25 years of civil war, significant wildlife populations have survived -- and even flourished -- in south Sudan, where the regional government is recognizing wildlife as "a future backbone of the economy."

02.07.2007 Marokko painaa Yhdysvaltain ja Ranskan tukemana päälle ajaakseen läpi oman autonomiaehdotuksensa Länsi-Saharaan. Länsi-Saharaa miehittävän Marokon ja Länsi-Saharan itsenäisyyttä tavoittelevan Polisario-liikkeen edustajat kokoontuivat alkuviikosta ensimmäistä kertaa kymmeneen vuoteen suoriin neuvotteluihin.