World Affairs: Africa
Lead Feature
The people's hope for a new democracy
Mosiuoa Lekota, President, Congress of the People, South Africa
In africa
Somalia nearing disaster
- By Jeremy Sare
- 19 December
Unthinkable as it may seem Somalia looks set to plunge into a wave of even greater chaos when Ethiopian and African Union troops withdraw later this month
Africa's neglected
- By Juliane Kippenberg
- 16 December
The plight of children in Kenya who fall prey to HIV/Aids. Human Rights Watch's Juliane Kippenberg reports on a massive failure to help the most vulnerable
Outlook stormy for Obama
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 15 December
The inclusion in Obama's team of so many figures from the past heralds the continuation of the policies of the past, some of which, even among Bushites, were seen to be stupid
Landmine ban failing
- By Samira Shackle
- 11 December
The recent Oslo convention banning landmines marks an important step forward, but it also illustrates the limits of international law
When writing saves lives
- By Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana
- 09 December
Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana - a former prisoner of conscience - has a personal experience of how much difference Amnesty letter writing campaigns can make
Feature
Cable wades into Chagos injustice row
Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice
More in africa
Ghana votes for a share of the oil
- By Tristan McConnell
- 04 December 2008
An odyssey in black and white
- By Gillian Slovo
- 27 November 2008
Kindness of strangers
- By Henry Sands
- 27 November 2008
The exodus
- By Xan Rice
- 06 November 2008
The view from the top
- By Peregrine Worsthorne
- 06 November 2008
Thinking about Cairo
- By Rachel Aspden
- 30 October 2008
The president, his church and the crocodiles
- By Xan Rice
- 23 October 2008
