Sounthern Africa
As starvation tightens its grip across Zimbabwe, increasingly desperate exiles brave the crocodile-infested waters of the Limpopo to try their luck in South Africa. Pregnant women and mothers with young children drag themselves to Johannesburg, where many of them appeal to the churches for safe haven.
15 March 2006 - Martine Stemerick
Africa
Africans have a reason to smile following the announcement of a successful completion of Phase I clinical trial of a new conjugate vaccine against serogroup A meningococcus, a bacterium that causes deadly Meningitis epidemics and untold suffering in sub-Saharan Africa.
15 March 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
Nigeria
Uneasy calm is returning to regions most affected by religious violence in February following the cartooning of Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper.
13 March 2006 - Toye Olori
Nigeria
Infrastructural development in most towns and villages in Nigeria began with the emergence of oil boom in the seventies and with development, came environmental degradation.
2 March 2006 - Toye Olori
South Africa
The KwaZulu-Natal government is spending R15-million in a bold programme to re-introduce and preserve the indigenous Nguni cattle to poor communities.
21 February 2006 - Mbongeni Zondi
Liberia
During the final months of the civil war, when rebel fighters bombarded the capital Monrovia, Liberia's central prison took mortar hits and prisoners scrambled over the rubble to freedom.
21 February 2006 - IRINnews
Swaziland
The web page is as brightly coloured as a primary school text book, but the images conjure the anxiety of abandonment and uncertainty that any child would feel at the loss of their parents.
14 February 2006 - IRIN
Kenya
Founded in 2000 in Nairobi, Hawa Artists is a group of female visual and multi-media artists with a vision of uplifting the girl-child and women through art.
8 February 2006 - Akinyi Ocholla
Kenya
President Mwai Kibaki's chances of recapturing the top seat next year largely depends on the survival of the Orange Democratic Movement, currently threatened by a split occasioned by its leaders' presidential ambitions.
31 January 2006 - Stephen Lumumba
Zimbabwe
As fees rise from 150 to 500 percent in missionary and private schools, many students are seeking admission to the public school system in spite of a lower pass rate. But how can a high school teacher earning about US$40 a month afford to pay US$189 a month - plus money for the child's groceries and transport?
23 January 2006 - IRIN
Cote d'Ivoire
Barricades continued to snag Cote d'Ivoire's main city, Abidjan, and many people stayed home from work for the fourth day running on Thursday as anti-UN protesters ignored a plea from President Laurent Gbagbo to remove the roadblocks and end street protests.
20 January 2006 - IRIN
Africa
WITH apparent enthusiasm the UN, most development aid donors and agencies, academics, politicians and journalists seem to have embraced the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a prime measure of development progress.But a basic question has never been asked or answered: will the pursuit of the MDGs help or hurt development, particularly in Africa?
14 January 2006 - Ross Herbert
Nigeria
An agricultural project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)has increased production and improved the lives of farmers in northern Nigeria.
6 January 2006 - Toye Olori
Liberia
After four years sheltering from war in a refugee camp in Guinea, Jangar Kollie returned to his home town of Kolahun in northern Liberia with relief, but he admits, he broke down in tears when he saw the rebuilding task ahead of him.
27 December 2005 - IRIN
Kenya
A political crisis engendered by Kibaki's decision to shut out of his cabinet a key coalition partner is now threatening his very survival.
20 December 2005 - Stephen Lumumba
