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July 2008
- African Sun Could Power EU
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 23, 08 1:50 PM CDT
  
  All of the European continent’s electrical needs could be generated by massive solar farms in Africa, scientists posited today, unveiling a plan to do just that, the Guardian reports. The proposal, which would require an area the size of Wales—insignificant in the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert, they note—is highly speculative; the biggest hurdle would likely be upgrading the European and trans-Mediterranean power grid to carry, and share, the power. More »
  
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  European Union • Africa • Europe • renewable energy • solar power • power grid • solar panel • Sahara
- African Women Take Brunt of Food Crisis
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 20, 08 5:06 AM CDT
  
  As food and fuel prices continue to climb, impoverished families across Africa are hurting worse than ever—and women are suffering the most. The Washington Post follows one Burkina Faso mother in her daily struggle to feed her family and survive in a culture that puts her last at mealtime. "When there is less food, women are the first to eat less," said one human rights advocate. More »
  
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  Africa • poverty • hunger
- Mandela's Birthday Wish: Help the Poor
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 18, 08 12:06 PM CDT
  
  Nelson Mandela turned 90 today, and he used the occasion to talk to reporters about the plight of South Africa’s poor, the BBC reports. “If you are poor, you are not likely to live long,” he said. “There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate.” More »
  
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  Africa • South Africa • Nelson Mandela • birthday • Poverty in South Africa
- Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jul 16, 08 10:14 PM CDT
  
  A gene extremely common among Africans but almost unknown other ethnic groups may be rendering people of sub-Saharan Africa more susceptible to HIV and AIDS, the Times of London reports. The gene variant—common because it provides malaria protection—makes carriers 40% more likely to contract HIV and could be responsible for 11%, or 2.5 million, of the AIDS cases in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. More »
  
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  United Nations • Africa • AIDS • HIV • malaria • University College London
- Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  The Senate moved today to repeal a ban on allowing immigrants and vistors who are HIV-positive to enter the country, the AP reports. The measure was part of a $50 billion bill to combat AIDS worldwide. The US is one of only a dozen countries—including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Libya—that forbids the entry of visitors with AIDS. More »
  
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  Senate • immigration • Africa • John Kerry • AIDS • HIV • Gordon Smith • visas
- UN Approves China to Buy Ivory
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jul 16, 08 5:29 AM CDT
  
  China has been given a green light to begin importing African ivory by a UN body that banned the sale 10 years ago, a decision that has infuriated conservation groups, the Daily Telegraph reports. African states say they need to sell stockpiles of ivory from elephants that are culled or die of natural causes in order to fund conservation efforts. Critics believe the move will encourage poaching and put more pressure on endangered elephant populations. More »
  
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  China • Africa • endangered species • conservation • wildlife • elephant • cull • ivory
- Zambia Denies Reports That Prez Is Dead
  
  newser | AFP | Jul 3, 08 9:35 AM CDT
  
  Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa is resting comfortably in a Paris hospital, said a government spokesman today, denying "malicious" widespread reports that the leader had died after suffering his second stroke in 2 years ahead of an African Union summit. Mwanawasa "is responding well to treatment. He has made steady progress," said the spokesman. More »
  
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  Robert Mugabe • Africa • Paris • Zambia • Southern Africa • South African Development Community • Levy Mwanawasa
June 2008
- Mandela Blasts Mugabe's 'Tragic Failure of Leadership'
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 25, 08 10:00 PM CDT
  
  Nelson Mandela broke his silence today and denounced the "tragic failure of leadership" of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. The influential former South African leader had previously held back so he wouldn't undermine the authority of mediator Thabo Mbeki, the BBC reports. "The world remains beset by so much human suffering," he said. "It is now in the hands of your generations to help rid the world of such suffering." More »
  
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  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Africa • Nelson Mandela
- Darfur Sinking Into Chaos of Warring Rebel Groups
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 20, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  The civil war in Darfur has degenerated into a tangled mess of militias and warlords battling each other, a development that threatens efforts to bring relief to the 2.5 million people affected by the fighting. Dozens of rebel groups are at war with each other, not just the government, and “the lines of who's who are much more blurred,” said an Oxfam spokesman. The Washington Post assesses the situation on the ground. More »
  
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  Africa • Sudan • Darfur • emergency aid • rebels • humanitarian organizations
- Despite Mugabe, Democracy Is Gaining in Zimbabwe
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 18, 08 1:42 PM CDT
  
  Undemocratic though the situation might seem, the fact that the opposition has forced a presidential run-off in Zimbabwe is a sign of democracy's spread in sub-Saharan Africa, the Wall Street Journa l reports, where the number of "free" countries has reached 11 of 48, up from 3 in 1977. "Democratic change is coming to the forefront faster than institutional change," a Zimbabwean opposition leader says. More »
  
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  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Africa • democracy • Zimbabwe Election Support Network
- Mugabe's Horrors Transcend Race
  
  newser | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Jun 14, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  Once, Westerners cared about southern Africa. In the late 20th century, outraged Americans of all stripes spoke out against apartheid, an outpouring that ultimately helped liberate both South Africa and Zimbabwe. Now, Zimbabwe is under the thumb of another murderous tyrant—this time a black one—and the West remains strangely and disgracefully silent, writes Cythia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. More »
  
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  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Africa • Zimbabwe elections • apartheid
- Zimbabwe Jails Opposition Leaders
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 12, 08 2:57 PM CDT
  
  President Robert Mugabe's regime struck at the opposition leadership today, just two weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election, twice detaining his challenger and jailing the opposition party's No. 2 official on treason charges, which carry the death penalty. Presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was stopped at a roadblock and held at a police station for about two hours before being released. He returned to campaigning, and was again detained by police. More »
  
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  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Africa • Zimbabwe elections • Morgan Tsvangirai • treason
- Mugabe Detains His Challenger
  
  newser | MSNBC | Jun 4, 08 11:58 AM CDT
  
  The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition was detained today while campaigning, MSNBC reports. Morgan Tsvangirai, back in the country to challenge Robert Mugabe in a June 27 presidential run-off, is being held by police along with 14 other Movement for Democratic Change officials, the party said. More »
  
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  Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Africa • Zimbabwe elections • Morgan Tsvangirai • Zanu-PF • arrest • Movement for Democratic Change • opposition alliance
- $10 Mosquito Nets Move Young Donors to Save Lives
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 2, 08 9:11 AM CDT
  
  Mosquito nets, at $10 a pop, are a low-cost, effective way to prevent malaria—and they've become a cause célèbre for young people across the country, who've raised millions in donation drives, the New York Times reports. “You can say $10 saves a life,” says one young fundraiser. “That makes students feel they can help a lot. And every student has $10.” More »
  
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  Africa • public health • malaria • mosquito
May 2008
- Thousands Protest South African Violence
  
  newser | Reuters | May 25, 08 6:55 AM CDT
  
  Thousands of South Africans marched through Johannesburg yesterday to protest anti-immigrant rampages that have claimed at least 50 lives. Carrying placards comparing the violence to apartheid, marchers brought traffic to a standstill, Reuters reports. The action was organized by labor unions and churches. The nation's largest newspaper today called for the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki for failing to stop the mob violence. More »
  
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  Africa • ethnic violence • apartheid • mob
- Kenya Mob Torches 11 for Witchcraft
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 22, 08 8:15 AM CDT
  
  A mob in western Kenya hunted down and killed 11 people they accused of being witches and wizards, AP reports. The gang went from house to house with a list of suspected sorcerers and the spells they had cast. The eight men and three women, most over 70, were lynched and burned in their homes in the notoriously superstitious district. More »
  
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  Africa • Kenya • lynching • witches • witchcraft
- S. Africa Deploys Troops as Immigrant Killings Spike
  
  newser | AFP | May 22, 08 6:48 AM CDT
  
  South African president Thabo Mbeki has summoned troops to help counter a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the country, AFP reports. Mbeki called on soldiers after police requested help quelling mob violence that has claimed 42 lives, officials said. As many as 16,000 people have been displaced by the violence. Locals blame foreigners for high crime rates and taking jobs More »
  
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  Africa • South Africa • immigrant • Thabo Mbeki • ethnic violence • mob • riot
- Tutu Pleads for End to Immigrant Attacks
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 20, 08 5:03 AM CDT
  
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu pleaded yesterday with his South African countrymen to end a vicious surge of anti-immigrant violence that has killed at least 22 people, AP reports. Extra police were sent to squatter camps as roaming mobs continued to stab, beat and burn immigrant workers in some of the worst bloodshed the country has seen since apartheid. "The violence is extreme," said a spokesman for Doctors Without Borders. More »
  
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  immigration • Africa • South Africa • riots • Desmond Tutu • Johannesburg
- 12 Immigrants Killed in Johannesburg Riots
  
  newser | New York Times | May 19, 08 4:20 AM CDT
  
  At least 12 foreigners were shot, stabbed, beaten or burned to death over the weekend in anti-immigrant protests in and around Johannesburg. Thousands of terrified immigrants, many of them Zimbabweans fleeing problems in their own country, are now seeking refuge in churches or police stations, reports the New York Times. Immigrants have become the scapegoat for problems in the nation, rocked by a 23% unemployment rate, soaring food prices and one of the highest crime levels in the world. More »
  
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  immigration • Africa • riots • Thabo Mbeki • Jacob Zuma • African National Congress • Johannesburg
- Sudanese Rebels Fight for Control of Capital
  
  newser | Reuters | May 10, 08 2:48 PM CDT
  
  Darfur rebels battled Sudanese soldiers today in a rare bid for control of Sudan's capital, Reuters reports. The military later claimed victory and said just a few militants had reached Khartoum. "Thank God this attempt has been completely defeated," a government spokesman said. More »
  
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  Africa • Sudan • Darfur • genocide • Crisis in Darfur • Sudanese Liberation Army • Justice and Equality Movement • rebel fighters • janjaweed

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