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G8's promise to Africa is likely to be broken--pledge to double aid by 2010 far behind schedule Kathryn Hopkins The Guardian June 11, 2009

Above, a hand-painted anticorruption sign in Lusaka, Zambia. Agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and their leaders have been dismissed, threatened with death and driven into exile. Photo: Mariella Furrer/New York Times

Battle to halt corruption in Africa ebbs Celia W. Dugger New York Times June 9, 2009

Guinea-Bissau military kills politicians BBC News June 6, 2009

High food prices force Kenyan slum dwellers to go hungry IRIN May 27, 2009 More financial, food, and hunger crisis stories

Can Nigeria's police be reformed? BBC News May 7, 2009

Burkina Faso: Largest Measles Outbreak in More Than 10 Years IRIN April 9, 2009

The Indian-owned Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia employs more than 12,000 people, but it plans to lay off nearly 1,100 to cut costs. The mining industry employs 10 percent of Zambia's workforce. Photo: Karin Brulliard/Washington Post)

Zambia's copper belt reels from global crisis--downturn in commodities trade leads to devastating mine closures Karin Brulliard Washington Post March 25, 2009

Study says Pentagon's Africa Command needs to refine mission, citing fears that it will militarize US foreign policy in Africa Eric Schmitt New York Times March 25, 2009

Madagascar president forced out BBC News March 17, 2009

Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu were shot at close range. Two men riddled the car with automatic gunfire and then walked away. The Oscar Foundation, named after its now-dead founder, has been at the forefront of protests about alleged extra-judicial killings by police and Mr Kingara had given the UN evidence of alleged police abuses. Photo: AP

Kenya's power-sharing report card: 'unsatisfactory.' One year after ethnic violence tore the African nation apart, the coalition government is moving slowly – or not at all – to address the problems. Scott Baldauf Christian Science Monitor March 13, 2009 Two human rights leaders shot dead in Kenya--rights groups hold government responsible BBC News March 6, 2009  Rule of law reels in Kenya--killings do not come more cold-blooded and calculated. Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu were shot at close range while their car was standing in traffic just yards from the heavily guarded residence of Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki. Adam Mynott  BBC News March 6, 2009 

President Joao Bernardo Vieira had ruled intermittently since 1980. Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's poorest states. It has a history of coups and has become a major transit route for smuggling cocaine to Europe. Photo: BBC

Guinea-Bissau president shot dead by soldiers--an apparent revenge attack for the killing of the army chief  BBC News March 2, 2009  Guinea-Bissau assassinations: Is Colombia's drug trade behind them?  Scott Baldauf  Christian Science Monitor  March 3, 2009  See Hunger Notes special report:  Harmful economic systems

Mary Mwelu, 90, had not had a meal in two days when this picture was taken on 20 January 2009 due to a food crisis that has gripped Kenya Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN

Kenya: belt tightening as hunger spreads--causes include violence, high world food prices, and drought  IRIN January 21, 2009

Ghana's new leader takes office BBC News January 6, 2009

The Ethiopian parliament bill  bans aid agencies from working on the rights of children. Temesgen Zewdie, an opposition parliament member sees it as an attempt by the ruling party to banish all those it sees as a threat to its tight grip on power. Photo: AFP

Ethiopia prohibits international aid agencies and Ethiopian NGOs funded by aid agencies from working in areas including human rights, equality, conflict resolution and the rights of children  BBC News January 6, 2009

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