26 December 08 - Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods, drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives (...) Read

24 December 08 - More than 350,000 people in Mozambique are in need of food aid with hamstrung aid relief agencies saying the onset of the annual flood season in Mozambique will also jeopardise other food interventions for vulnerable children, home-based care recipients and people living with (...) Read

23 December 08 - From VOA News War amputees in Sierra Leone are complaining of their treatment and of a stalled reparation program, nearly seven years since the end of the country’s brutal civil war. Human rights activists say amputees are being ostracized, but the government says it is working hard to (...) Read

23 December 08 - From AFP NAIROBI — The acquittal of Rwanda’s ex-army colonel Theoneste Bagosora by the UN war crimes tribunal of conspiracy to commit genocide marks the court’s failure to prove the massacre was planned, analysts said Friday. Bagosora, jailed for life by the International (...) Read

9 December 08 - Release from Human Rights Watch - The 104-page report, "So Much to Fear: War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia," describes how the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Ethiopian forces that intervened in Somalia to support it and insurgent forces have committed widespread and (...) Read

3 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT Burundi was grilled during the universal periodic review of its human rights record on Tuesday 2nd December. The delegation, led by two women ministers, Immaculé Nahayo, responsible for Solidarity and human rights issues and Clotilde Niragira, minister of Labour and public (...) Read

1 December 08 - Several months after having done away with the post of the independent expert on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Human Rights Council has decided to send seven independent experts to the country Read

1 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT The first country to have its human rights record reviewed at the current session of the Human Rights Council, starting the 1st December, Botswana has commited to providing free accomodation for the poorest of the poor in 2009, in spite of its refusal « on financial grounds (...) Read

28 November 08 - The serious human rights abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a credibility test for the United Nations Human Rights Council, say activists. Read

21 November 08 - Forget all those Gross Domestic Product rankings for a moment. Think, as a new survey in Africa sets out, of ranking countries by how friendly they are to children. It just might matter more. Read