Gicumbi, 5 September, 2008— Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain. They also had to contend […]

Dakar, 5 September, 2008— Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market. Polluters looking for credits The carbon forum matched […]

Sanaa, 4 September, 2008— Thousands of people affected by the fighting in May between army units and Shia rebels in Harf Sufian District of the northern governorate of Amran will receive aid, a senior official […]

Luanda, 4 September, 2008— Last-minute radio jingles have been trying to persuade people like Almerindo Malessu to vote on Friday but, like many other Angolans, the jobless father of two thinks the parliamentary elections – […]

Nairobi, 3 September, 2008— Rubbish is everywhere in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, just a few kilometres from the centre of Nairobi. It lies not just between the ramshackle dwellings, but often underneath them, rendering them […]

Dakar, 3 September, 2008— Experts say many of the right conditions are in place across West Africa to make cash distributions work in the current global food price crisis. Michael O’Donnell, head of hunger reduction […]

Cotonou, 3 September, 2008— The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 500,000 people are at risk of additional flooding in Benin. WHO says expected storms, the number of people living in and near recently-flooded areas, coupled […]

Lusaha, 3 July, 2008— The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive – denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital – and described South African President Thabo Mbeki’s minute […]