For Zimbabwe, the immediate effect of these events is that the Zimbabwe Democracy Bill is likely to fall off the American agenda in the near future, in the same way that the world has disappeared from global news coverage. The restrained responses of the Government of Zimbabwe to the events in the US, indicate the Mugabe regime’s understanding of the space that has opened up to them.

Worried by the negative image created for African countires by the prevalence of corruption and poverty, President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for a collective war "against this hydra-headed monster".

The United Nations Security Council has asked Angola's warring parties to grant humanitarian workers access to at-risk communities, saying it is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the country. UN statistics indicate at least 500,000 Angolans are in desperate need of food and medicine cannot be reached.

Lesotho is facing a "silent emergency" as drought-induced food shortages hit poor households in the tiny mountain kingdom, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday.

Chad's minister of communication, Moktar Wawa Dahab, denied a recent report by Amnesty International in which the human rights organisation accused the government of perpetuating human rights violations begun under the regime of ex-president Hissene Habre.

The aide-de-camp of Côte d’Ivoire’s former de facto ruler, General Robert Guei, and six other soldiers are being detained at the military prison in Abidjan after being charged on Thursday with threatening state security, local media reported.

The voluntary repatriation of more than 160,000 Eritrean refugees, many of whom have been in exile since the 1960s, from Sudan was to resume toward the end of the week, a UNHCR spokesman said on 19 October.

The former governor of Rwanda's Kigali-Rural prefecture, François Karera, was arrested on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya, and immediately transferred to the detention facility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, the Tanzania-based court reported.

An Italian priest has been arrested in Bangui in connection with a story he allegedly wrote regarding mass executions of Yakomas, who are members of the ethnic group of the 28 May failed coup mastermind and former Central African Republic (CAR) president Andre Kolingba, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported on Saturday.

Levels of human suffering continue to rise in the Great Lakes region - mainly in Burundi - where the numbers of internally displaced persons and refugees has risen slightly to three million and one million respectively, The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.

Addressing the UN Security Council on 19 October, the prime minister of Somalia's Transitional National Government (TNG), warned that unless his fledgling administration received more international support Somalia could disintegrate further and become a haven for international terrorism.

Renewed fighting in eastern Angola has sent thousands of refugees fleeing across the border into neighbouring Zambia, the UN's refugee agency has announced.

The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has completed in most of Burundi's seven provinces the distribution of 4,000 mt of food to some 375,000 people.

Thank you for the educative piece you have unveiled to the members of this community. I personally feel very touched by the seemingly persistent negative attitude of the South African government towards the HIV and AIDS related issues. I come from and live in Uganda. And as you probably know, the AIDS scourge in Uganda has been somewhat reduced because of the positive attitude and commitment on the part of
government and all other partners in the development fraternity. I am a nurse, professionally and I just can't hold back my intense negative feeling for this continued disastrous action of politicians who are otherwise meant to cater for the ordinary citizen! Here is my humble suggestion in addition to your possible queries. In my view as it happens in Uganda, the South African government ought to come out of this defiance. First and fore most the president, Mr. Thabo Mbeki must realise that HIV/AIDS is no longer an issues you can play about with. I must say they (him and colleagues) may think it is a form of apartheid! This must stop. I would like to suggest here that the people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS must come out and openly protest, demonstrate and show to the ANC government what the truth is. I will write more on this as we go along - I would like to read others' comments.

Although Africa has readily joined the US-led anti-terror coalition, the meaning and structure of that fight has raised uncertainty in the minds of some African leaders.

A newly released study on attitudes towards foreigners, particularly refugees, shows that public awareness on the human rights of asylum-seekers has still to take root on South African soil.

The Coalition for Peace in Africa will be holding a 5 week training workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. This workshop will cover diverse aspects of conflict transformation and peace building, and is aimed at capacity building for people working in conflict transformation, development, human rights and related fields on the African continent.

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation is hosting a seminar on the impact of war: Political, social, and psychological consequences.

Soon, we will celebrate December 18’s second anniversary. Time has come to evaluate our work and what it is worth to your organization. We prepared a brief questionnaire of 9 easy to answer questions about the web site and MIGRANT.NEWS and invite you to fill it out and return it to us.

The White House is in information lockdown. In this war against individuals, where intelligence matters more than numbers of troops, tanks, and bombers, the US administration is restricting information to a much broader degree than in previous wars.