News by Countries

Mali

The commodification of water and land in Mali
Kenya: 20,000 Somali refugees arrive in two weeks
Public-Public Partnerships in water
The wrong climate for big dams
Southern Africa: Top lawyers say SADC turning its back on human rights

South Africa

South Africa: 'The Protection of Information Bill is unconstitutional and anti-democratic'
South Africa: Cosatu slams information bill
South Africa: Information bill bad for municipal governance

Zimbabwe

South Africa: Lessons learned from the Zimbabwean documentation process
Zuma should focus on Zimbabwe instead of Libya
Zimbabwe: LGBTI activists join SADC summit protest

Kenya

Kenya: Solar energy brings opportunities to rural Kenya
Kenya: Witnesses put on the spot over massacre
Kenya: Nominee for chief justice denies gay allegations

Senegal

Senegal: Women solar engineers brighten Senegal
Final call for organisations to sign the Dakar Appeal against Land Grabbing!
Senegal: Continental gender conference opens in Dakar

Botswana

Botswana: Understanding the public sector strike
Botswana: Sex worker initiative includes LGBTI component
Botswana: Strike suspended as State deploys heavy security

Nigeria

Nigeria: Jonathan commended for signing the FOI into law
Nigeria: Five killed in Nigeria police station attacks
Nigeria: Senate passes biosafety bill

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea: Luxury resort built for week-long summit
Hundreds of youth detained in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea: Abuses ahead of AU summit

Burundi

Burundi: Refugees arrested, beaten and jailed in Gasorwe Camp

Uganda

Uganda: The state of the nation
Uganda: Woman branded by iron over sexuality faces deportation from UK
Uganda: Thirty arrested in forest encroachment battle

Egypt

Egypt: Egypt, Kingdom Holding sign deal on disputed Toshka land
Egypt: Tortured for ransom in the Sinai desert
Egypt: One year since Khaled Said’s death, justice awaited

Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: New laws have little impact on sexual violence
DRC: 40,000+ Angolan refugees to go home
DRC: Hurdles ahead as DRC passes election law

Liberia

Liberia: Refugees watch and wait
Liberia: Tackling sexual violence head on

Somalia

Somalia: Rivals reach deal
Somalia: Country 'worst place to be a woman', says minister
Somalia: Four journalists detained in Mogadishu

Madagascar

Madagascar: Campaigner seeks to stop tar sands mining
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Madagascar: Poverty and malnutrition on sisal plantations

Malawi

Malawi: World Bank holds back $40 million
Malawi: UK aid cuts hit health care
Malawi: Local myths stall paediatric HIV treatment

Cameroon

Cameroon: Cameroon loses ground in fight against maternal mortality
Cameroon: Campaign to free Cameroon man jailed for homosexuality
Cameroon: Propping up a dictator

Tanzania

Tanzania: Gay activist meets British asylum system
Zanzibar International Film Festival
Tanzania: Climate of non disclosure could be undermining accountability in schools

Libya

Libya: NATO's war of aggression on sovereign African state
Statement on the UK Government’s military involvement in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Truth dispatch: Updates from Libya

Tunisia

Tunisia: Parties approve new election date
Tunisia: Will Democracy Be Good For Women's Rights?
Tunisia: Ben Ali trial to begin in absentia on 20 June

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: Remember those living atop the hill at Kissy Mental Hospital
Sierra Leone: Newspaper journalist stabbed to death
Sierra Leone: Study reveals alarming facts about plantation of Addax Bioenergy

Swaziland

Swaziland: Free Maxwell Dlamini
Swaziland: Girls leave school because of no sanitary wear
Swaziland: Unions plan another showdown with government

Gabon

Gabon: Four die as Gabon expels 3,000 African miners
Gabon in ruins: A democracy devastated

Djibouti

Djibouti: Opposition radio contributors held
Djibouti: Six radio station contributors released

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: Compaoré sacks all his country's governors
Burkina Faso: Thousands of hectares of forests lost each year

Algeria

Algeria: Algerians puzzled by term limit reversal
Algeria: Unrest sweeps country

Morocco

Morocco: Editor gets one year sentence
Morocco: Protests called against reform plan

Angola

Angola: Chinese workers build new city
Arrest of the Angolan civil society activist Agostinho Chicaia

Zambia

Zambia: China rejects Clinton’s ‘new colonialism’ rantings
'Transparency' hides Zambia's lost billions

Rwanda

Rwanda: Cabinet adopts information access bill
Rwanda: Woman sentenced for genocide

Namibia

Namibia: Death threat for AVID accused
Namibia: All systems go for Wal-Mart

Mauritania

Mauritania: ‘A simple citizen demanding his rights’

Mozambique

Mozambique: Food security challenges under spotlight

South Sudan

Sudan: North and South Sudan sign pact over Abyei

Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Press freedom, the law and democracy
Ethiopia: Journalist likely held under anti-terrorism law
Eritrea: Ethiopia slammed for AU summit plot allegations

Chad

Chad: Plan signed to end children in the military

Ghana

Ghana: Ghana blames Chinese companies for dumping fake anti-malaria drugs

Gambia

Gambia: Missing ex-minister found, charged with treason

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