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World Affairs: Africa

Lead Feature

The people's hope for a new democracy

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

Trouble in paradise

  • By Carole Seymour-Jones
  • 11 December

Observations on the Maldives

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

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

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