News and Views: Africa
- G8: Poverty Reduction and Climate Change Inextricably Linked, Say Activists (Moyiga Nduru, Inter Press Service)
- Scorched: Darfur, the first climate change war? (Julian Borger, The Guardian )
- Sudan Flying Arms to Darfur, Panel Reports (Warren Hoge, The New York Times)
- The New US Command for Africa will Militarize the Continent (Salim Lone, Guardian/UK)
- Fresh round of attacks on civilians hits South Darfur (UN News)
- 4 million people in Darfur now need humanitarian aid, top UN relief official says (UN News)
- SUDAN: Government 'accepts' UN troops in Darfur (IRIN News)
- African nomads to be first wiped out by climate change (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Africa: Changing Climate, Changing Lives (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- From dawn to dusk, the daily struggle of Africa's women (Paul Vallely, The Independent)
- An Unexpected AIDS Boom in Sudan (Hana Baba, New American Media)
- Darfur Crisis Set to Worsen? (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- HEALTH-KENYA: 'Break the Silence on Abortion' (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- Female Focus Needed to Stop AIDS, Say African and U.S. (Katherine Curtis, OneWorld US)
- Genital Cutting Raises by 50% Likelihood Mothers or Their Newborns Will Die, Study Finds (Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times)
- Aids, America, abstinence... (Oliver Duff, The Independent (UK))
- Despite rains, 40,000 children face death in drought-stricken Horn of Africa, UN warns (UN News)
- Divestment and Sudan (Sam Graham-Felsen, The Nation)
- U.S. Farm Subsidies Hurting Africa's Development (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- AIDS scourge in Africa shows urgent need for new women’s agency: UN envoy (UN News)
- Women in Darfur Look to ICC (Christine Butegwa, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
- KENYA: Drought could lead to humanitarian catastrophe, warns UN envoy (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Khartoum Accused of Exporting Darfur Violence to Chad (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Maasai-led Grassroots Education Efforts Prove Essential to Referendum Defeat (Michael Ole Tiampati, Weekly Indigenous News)
- KENYA: Gov't appeals for $245 m to assist drought-affected people (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- SUDAN: Thousands displaced by recent attacks in South Darfur (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- 1.25 million children beyond reach of aid in Sudan’s Darfur region, UN warns (UN News)
- SUDAN: Gender-based violence still rampant in Darfur, say aid agencies (IRINnews.org)
- The Vicious Cycle of AIDS, Poverty, and Neoliberalism (Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas, IRC Americas Program)
- 3 million girls still undergo genital cutting, but change is possible (UN News)
- Still Dying in Darfur (Ari Berman, The Nation)
- The Other Half: Women and HIV/AIDS (Babatunde Osotimehin, New York Times)
- Rape, sexual violence continue in Sudan’s Darfur region, UN reports (UN News)
- Bush Overstates Africa Aid Increase (David Bryden, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- A Noose, Not a Bracelet (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- 3 million reasons to act for Africa (Kevin Williams, International Herald Tribune)
- An Epidemic Failure (Geraldine Sealey, Salon.com)
- Revealed: the new scramble for Africa (David Leigh and David Pallister, The Guardian)
- UN Human Rights Committee Calls Upon Kenya to Protect Reproductive Rights (Center for Reproductive Rights)
- FGM in Kenya: Outlawed, Not Eradicated (Ochieng' Ogodo, WeNews)
- Peace in Sudan: Good News for People or Oil Companies? (Common Dreams)
- UN envoy battling AIDS in Africa finds infected children lack key treatment (UN News)