Nigeria
Across Nigeria, the prejudice and denial surrounding HIV/AIDS are major obstacles in trying to stem the spread of the pandemic. But the predominantly Muslim North presents special challenges.
19 October 2005 - IRIN
Africa
A new report by the New York-based human rights watchdog highlights the impact of HIV/AIDS on schooling.
11 October 2005 - Plusnews
Nigeria
A school feeding programme has been launched with a view to attracting more children to school.
11 October 2005 - Toye Olori
Kenya
The continued inefficiency in the judiciary is a major stumbling block to the smooth running of business in Kenya, though government officials are optimistic of a steady improvement.
6 October 2005 - Fred Oluoch
Zimbabwe
The IMF paints a grim picture of Zimbabwe, a fact that the government denies.
6 October 2005 - IRIN
South Africa
In Southern Africa lives someone who has the closest match to the DNA of a man who walked the Earth 60 000 years ago - and Dr Spencer Wells is hoping to shake his hand one day.
4 October 2005 - Shaun Smillie
Ethiopia
The recent elections in Ethiopia, though highly-disputed, resulted into major democratic gains in a country that is more familiar with dictatorship than democracy since 1930 when Emperor Haile Selassie assumed the throne.
22 September 2005 - Fred Oluoch
Nigeria
Nigeria has embarked on a process leading to the implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the country.
22 September 2005 - Toye Olori
Kenya
Save for the constitutional issues, the forthcoming referendum will be a mid-term verdict by various regions on the political and economic performance of president Mwai Kibaki's government.
21 September 2005 - Fred Oluoch
Uganda
In December 2003, President Yoweri Museveni asked the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). But a new report released on September 20 by the Human Rights Watch group, the Uganda army has itself carried out serious crimes that demand prosecution.
21 September 2005 - Henry Neondo
Angola
Another generation of Angolan children faces a precarious future as failed harvests and the legacy of 27 years of civil war combine to undermine food security in the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday.
20 September 2005 - IRIN
Southern Africa
HIV/AIDS has accounted for huge reversals in human development in Southern Africa, which could impact on the region meeting some of the UN's poverty-slashing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a new report.
8 September 2005 - IRIN
Zimbabwe
Doing business in Zimbabwe has become even more difficult after South Africa's telecommunications parastatal, Telkom, pulled the plug on services to the neighbouring country for outstanding debts.
7 September 2005 - IRIN
Botswana
Wildlife guards have entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and are threatening Bushmen at gunpoint in an attempt to force them to abandon their homes.
7 September 2005 - Survival International
Africa
"Education is the most effective way to empower the rural poor to get out of poverty and to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals are met in sub-Saharan Africa," according to FAO.
7 September 2005 - FAO
