Full Coverage: North Africa

05/31/2006 The Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) have launched the Sudan Open Archive, an open-access digital library for Sudan, containing documents that until now were largely unavailable in digital form.

05/26/2006 The partial Sudan peace deal signed in Abuja in May is unravelling in Darfur and the international community appears paralysed in the face of Khartoum’s objections to a UN force, warned a US African affairs lobby group.
* Government allows UN to assess proposed Darfur mission
* Darfur: no peace, no food
* Darfur needs robust protection force
* Joint UN-AU assessment team to visit Darfur within days

05/24/2006 The Tunisian authorities "have once again demonstrated their complete disregard for freedom of expression" by arresting and deporting a board member of International Amnesty Switzerland.

05/24/2006 Sudanin hallituksen ja Darfurin suurimman kapinallisliikkeen välillä on allekirjoitettu sopimus, mutta rauhasta ei ole vielä tietoakaan. Afrikan unionin AMIS-operaatiota on vahvistettava, jotta pysyvä rauha saadaan aikaan. Myös hätäavun tarve on suuri, sillä Darfuria koettelee tällä hetkellä maailman suurin humanitaarinen kriisi, kirjoittaa YK:n pääsihteeri Kofi Annan.

05/24/2006 Jan Egeland probably understands the Darfur conflict better than any other westerner. The UN Association for the USA got the low-down from the UN Humanitarian chief Tuesday.

05/23/2006 An upsurge of violence has led to death, injury and displacement of civilians in southern Sudan, an international medical humanitarian organisation warned today, as it announced that it had been forced to evacuate some of its international teams from the area.

05/22/2006 Flagging donor response to World Food Programme appeals for aid is threatening to inflict a nutritional disaster on Sudan's Darfur region, a leading medical aid group warned today.

05/19/2006 Peter Gantz's article suggesting a NATO force to arrest the Darfur genocide is one of the few concrete suggestions for actually defeating genocide. Sadly, the UN seems incapable of...

05/18/2006 The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan need a stronger mandate, more resources, and higher troop levels to protect civilians, says an international refugee group.
* Darfur crisis: campaign update
* Help send emergency relief to women and children in Darfur
* Without foreign chancelleries and Hollywood’s finest, can Darfur peace deal succeed?

05/18/2006 A leading campaigning group gives a recap of the latest developments in the peace deal, the expected UN troop deployment, worsening conditions for refugees, and several suggestions for how you can stay involved in fighting for justice in Darfur.

05/17/2006 The Security Council has taken a major step towards establishing a UN peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region by adopting a resolution calling for the deployment of a joint UN-Africa Union team to pave the way for the operation.
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05/16/2006 Leaders have failed to develop a "people's peace," says Julie Flint, warning that demonstrations by Darfurians against the deal as well as their ignorance of the deal's provisions are signs that it will not last.

05/12/2006 The daily plight of the people of Darfur has not improved. Two million people who fled the violence are still internally displaced, far from what were once their homes and now completely dependent on external aid.

05/11/2006 The man credited with beginning the Sudan disinvestment campaign is a literature professor at Smith College; find out why he decided to take action and how he became involved in ending the genocide in Darfur.

05/08/2006 A day after calling for the strengthening of the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur ahead of the deployment of a UN mission, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland today had to flee from a camp for displaced people in the region.

05/08/2006 The Association of Progressive Communications is inviting applications for a North African Regional Wireless Training Workshop in Morocco, from 12-16 July 2006.

05/08/2006 Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of the Egyptian political activists, and one of the first bloggers in Egypt was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in, as well who were held in custody for two weeks under investigation for “crimes” that if anything would raise only mockery including, humiliating the president, possession of “publishing equipment”(graffiti spray) and blocking traffic.

05/07/2006 Un calendario abbastanza preciso dei tempi di attuazione del disarmo delle forze combattenti attive sul terreno e la creazione di zone cuscinetto intorno ai campi per sfollati in cui vivono quasi 2 milioni di persone sono le principali precisazioni contenute nell’accordo di pace, firmato ieri dal governo centrale sudanese e dall'Esercito per la liberazione del Sudan (Sla-m, il principale dei gruppi ribelli attivi in Darfur). Il più grande gruppo ribelle nella regione sudanese del Darfur ha accettato infatti di firmare un accordo di pace con il Governo: il passo in avanti è stato fatto quando il leader dello Sla-m, Minni Minnawi, è ritornato ai colloqui dopo lunghe ed intense trattative. Nei colloqui, che si svolgono ad Abuja (Nigeria), sono implicate quattro parti: il Governo sudanese, le milizie arabe pro-governative Janjaweed, ed i due gruppi ribelli: l'Sla-m ed il Jem (Justice and Equality Movement) che, comunque, non si dice contento dei termini dell'accordo offerto, mentre il Governo invece è già d'accordo per firmare. Il triennale conflitto del Darfur ha provocato più di 200.000 morti e più di 2 milioni di sfollati.

05/06/2006 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed the Sudan peace agreement and called on the government to allow a visit by a UN assessment team to make preparations for the arrival of a force from the world body.

05/05/2006 Wireless technologies offer developing countries an important low-cost, versatile alternative to wired infrastructure. They enable communities to extend the reach of cabled internet connectivity and to be in control of the planning, implementation and design of their own networks, making the network into a tool that really serves the needs of the community.