NewsNotes articles on Africa
July-August 2011
Kenya: Drought, high prices lead to malnutrition
Africa: Water and water privatization
Africa: Food security, land use
Sudan: Complex violence precedes independence
Zimbabwe: SADC's cautious push forward
May-June 2011
Africa: Agricultural technology and food security
Zimbabwe: Hard road to reform
Sudan: Problems still exist
Africa: Tension swirls around Nile water
DRC: Women's bodies as battlefields
March-April 2011
Egypt: Revolt in the land of the Pharaohs
Tanzania: Proposed road stirs controversy
Uganda: Faith leaders renew call for negotiations
Sudan: Post-referendum steps
Africa: Economics of agriculture, food security
January-February 2011
Kenya: Anti-trafficking law passed
Zimbabwe: Political crisis far from solved
Sudan: Listening to women’s voices
November-December 2010
South Africa: Protection of Information Bill
Zimbabwe: Cancel the debt
Sudan: Peace progresses
Uganda: Religious leaders advise U.S. foreign policy
DR Congo: Violence against women in war
September-October 2010
Kenya: Citizens approve new constitution
Zimbabwe: U.S. policy under review
Africa: Revisiting U.S. military expansion
Uganda: Pursuing peaceful means
Africa: New migrant rights’ group created
July-August 2010
Zimbabwe: Still struggling
Tanzania: Mining company bullies NGO
Africa: Priorities of the Obama administration
Sudan: At the crossroads
May-June 2010
Kenya: 50,000 threatened with eviction
Sudan: Elections aftermath
DRC: Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009
Africa: Impact of climate change on pastoralists
March-April 2010
Sudan: Post-referendum challenges
Zimbabwe: One year on, reform a failure
Africa: Illicit small arms market thrives
January-February 2010
Sudan: A Critical time
Namibia: President Pohamba reelected
Tanzania: Maasai face land loss, extinction
Africa: AFRICOM and U.S. policy
Zimbabwe: Termites in the ship of state
November-December 2009
Zimbabwe: Debt tribunal verdict
Sudan: A critical period
Kenya: Drought, famine worsen
May-June 2009
Africa: Climate change and gender
Madagascar: Another military coup
Sudan: Israel airstrikes reported
March-April 2009
Kenya: Parliament rejects special tribunal
Uganda: Rebels wreak havoc in region
Zimbabwe: Cautious optimism for unity government
Sudan: International investing land grab
January-February 2009
Sudan: Fragile peace between North, South
Kenya: Commissions report on violence
Zimbabwe: Tracking the descent
November-December 2008
Africa: Food security and neo-colonial scramble
Zimbabwe: Power sharing deal on rocky ground
September-October 2008
Kenya: Women organize after violence
East Africa: Pastoralists and climate change
Northern Uganda: Peace process stalled
Tanzania: Water lawsuit dissolves
Tanzania: Bomani mining committee issues report
Zimbabwe: Catholic Church, other groups speak out
July-August 2008
Zimbabwe: Prayers for transparency, solidarity
Sudan: Comprehensive Peace Agreement
N. Uganda: Still hope for peace?
May-June 2008
Zimbabwe: Elections and Painful Aftermath
Tanzania: Critical Research on Gold Mining
Kenya: Slow Steps Toward Healing, Reconciliation
March-April 2008
Africa: Women Make Progress Despite Obstacles
Bush visits Maryknoll Office in Tanzania
January-February 2008
November-December 2007
Africa: China, U.S. scramble for influence
Africa: Long term impact of World Bank investment
N. Uganda: Commitment to peace, reconciliation
Tanzania: Benefits from debt cancellation
September-October 2007
Tanzania: Refugee camps to close
Kenya: New ruling on death of John Kaiser
Kenya: Curbing small arms proliferation
Namibia: Russia offers nuclear energy aid
AFRICOM: Mixed response to U.S. military compound
Zimbabwe: Famine and manipulation of food aid
July-August 2007
Zimbabwe: "Injury in addition to insult"
Kenya: Responding to ethnic clashes
China and the World Bank in Africa
May-June 2007
Zimbabwe: Expressions of solidarity
Kenya: Catholic debt campaign takes action
Africa: Global movement for food sovereignty
Africa: Significant challenges of urban poverty
March-April 2007
Sudan: No solution in sight for Darfur
Africa: Number of health care workers dwindles
Kenya: Small arms, light weapons fuel instability
Africa: U.S. plans military command center
January-February 2007
Zimbabwe: Living standards drop by 150 percent
African indigenous peoples on UN declaration
Africa: Staple food is now genetically modified