Aid workers face “unprecedented difficulties” because of military activity and direct violence against them, a statement by six agencies says.
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Central African Republic: Rebels, government blame each other for village destruction
Eritrea downplayed the significance of restricting UN helicopters on Thursday, describing recent remarks by the Ethiopian prime minister as duplicitous.
Speaking to journalists for the first time since Eritrea grounded UN peacekeeping helicopters earlier this month, a senior government official said that recent comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi were offensive.
WEST AFRICA: Girls getting educated but also abused
Senegal’s leading private radio was closed down for most of the day on Monday under special instructions from the Interior Ministry after the station interviewed one of the leaders of a two-decade separatist rebellion in the southern Casamance region of the country.
LIBERIA: UN maintains diamond sanction, demanding better government controls
On a quiet street in Emina el Bahri, a small town just 10 km from the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Sada Adam sits on the porch of a small shop and sells cups of tea to the locals.
LIBERIA: Speaking out about Taylor’s son
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Somalis ‘at war’ with Ethiopia
“All Somalis should take part in this struggle against Ethiopia,” Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said from Mogadishu.
Fresh heavy fighting is reported near the weak Somali government’s Baidoa base, amid fears conflict could plunge the entire Horn of Africa into crisis.
UGANDA: An HIV/AIDS campaign in crisis?
The top negotiator in Liberia’s peace process, Abdulsalami Abubakar, flew into Monrovia on Wednesday to try to ensure that the country’s first elections since the end of a bitter civil war go ahead as scheduled on 11 October.
ZAMBIA: Help for child headed homes
Some 250 Zimbabwean families facing forced removal from their makeshift homes for the second time in three months have been granted a last-minute reprieve after a High Court ruling nullified their eviction notice.
Walking with young Fulani nomads
While children elsewhere in the world focus on technology, the young Fulani nomads in West Africa still follow the traditional way of life. As part of the BBC’s Generation Next series, Idy Baraou has been talking to some of the youngsters about their lives on the move.
United States Justice Dept. brings first charges for torture abroad. Ex-Liberian president’s son, Chuckie Taylor Indicted for torture in Liberia.
(New York) – The US Department of Justice today took a major step against impunity for atrocities in bringing its first-ever criminal charges for torture committed outside the United States.
The Justice Department indicted Charles “Chuckie” Taylor, Jr., son of the former Liberian president and currently in custody in Miami, for torture committed in Liberia.
