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Africa 2007 earlier stories
Mary Uduru works from dawn to dusk cooking and selling food on the roadside in the small central Nigerian town of Makurdi. Her husband died when she was 26, leaving her to bring up her four children alone. She now cares for three of her grandchildren. Photo: ©BBC
Nigeria: How Mary Uduru, a roadside chef, supports her family on $1 dollar a day BBC News April 17, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
Kenyan activists fight to retain cultural designs that have been developed in East Africa but are being patented by companies in rich countries. After losing the kiondo basket trademark to Japan, the popular kikoi fabric design is currently at risk of being patented by a British company. Joyce Mulama IPS News March 30, 2007
Want to see corruption in Zambia? Take a taxi! Mildred Mpundu March 20, 2007
Custodio Julio, 16, and his sister Edita, 5. Every day
is a scramble for food. Photo:
©Alfredo Mueche/IRIN
Mozambique: 'I am in the darkness' -- AIDS orphan IRIN News March 15, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
Angola calls a halt to IMF talks Lara Pawson BBC News March 13, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
Uganda's judiciary continues strike in protest against government arresting detainees freed by the court BBC News March 6, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
Faruk Maunge, 36, a high school counselor in Francistown, Botswana, points out one of several friends who died of complications from AIDS. Photo: ©Craig Timberg /Washington Post)
Speeding HIV's deadly spread: multiple, concurrent partners drive disease in Southern Africa Craig Timberg Washington Post March 2, 2007 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)
Vincent Otti said the LRA rebels wanted to negotiate. Photo: AFP
No renewal of truce in Uganda BBC News March 1, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
Nomcibelo Dlamini shows off a lettuce from the community garden. Photo: James Hall/IRIN
Swaziland: Community gardens flourish to feed the vulnerable IRIN March 1, 2007
Guinea-Bissau: Cashew policy could bring back hunger, FAO warns IRIN March 13, 2007 Guinea-Bissau: Hunger in a land of plenty IRIN February 20, 2007
United States offers debt relief to Liberia IRIN February 14, 2007
Security forces clashing with protestors in the Kaloum district of Conakry. Photo: © Maseco Conde/IRIN
Guinea crisis could spark war BBC News February 15, 2007 (You will leave this site.) Guinean unions end general strike BBC News January 28, 2007 (You will leave this site.) GUINEA: Strike violence spreads nationwide IRIN January 17, 2007 (You will leave this site.) GUINEA: Union leader vows to fight on IRIN January 15, 2007 Guinea, with vast bauxite reserves, gets first processing plant Katrina Manson and James Knight BBC News January 15, 2007 (You will leave this site.)
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Lake Chad, which once straddled the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, has shrunk by an estimated 95% since the mid 1960s, due to the growth of agriculture and declining rainfall. Image: UNEP
Humans blamed for climate change Richard Black BBC News February 2, 2007 (You will leave this site.) To access the report and summary Nigerian houses swallowed by sand as Sahara advances Senan Murray BBC News January 23, 2007 (You will leave this site.) Fishermen pack up their nets as Lake Chad shrinks Senan Murray BBC News January 15, 2007
Thieves blew up the ATM in this steel shed in Olievenhoutbosch township Dec. 31, the 53rd such attack in South Africa last year. Photo: ©Craig Timberg/ Washington Post)
In South Africa, cash machines prove a big hit with bombers Craig Timberg Washington Post January 15, 2007 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)
Photo: © BBC News
Mobile phones change Kenya Paul Mason BBC News January 8, 2007 (You will leave this site.)