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 […]

Harare, 27 June, 2008— Voting started at a slow pace on Friday in the capital, Harare, as Zimbabweans cast their ballots in a presidential run-off election boycotted by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). […]

Nairobi, 27 June, 2008— Travel to and work in the adjacent eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Rutshuru and Kiwanja village have resumed after riots curtailed such activities on 23 and 24 June, according […]

Accra, 27 June, 2008— Ghana’s President Kufuor has demanded an immediate end to a conflict between two ethnic groups in the north of the country that has claimed at least 17 lives in the last […]

Khartoum, 24 June, 2008— On a UN map of Darfur released this month, a patchwork of yellow and orange denotes locations with little or no humanitarian access. Compared with maps of previous years, vast new […]

Paris, 23 June, 2008— West African immigrant activists have taken their fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) to France where as many as 50,000 immigrant women a year undergo the procedure, according to the French […]

Addis Ababa, 24 June, 2008— The humanitarian situation in southern Ethiopia is becoming more critical, with increasing malnutrition being reported among young children in the past few weeks, a senior UN official said. “The situation […]

Nairobi, 24 June, 2008— Civil society groups in Somalia and aid agencies have called for an end to attacks against their staff, saying such incidents seriously hampered efforts to assist thousands of needy Somalis. “The […]