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After Africa’s wars, a ‘new day’ for building peace

15 Jan 2013

UN's Judy Cheng-Hopkins on peacebuilding work in Africa

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Security reform key to protecting women

5 Sep 2012

Graduates of the police academy in Liberia: Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country has...

Building peace from the ground up

15 Aug 2012

Voters queue up for a referendum on a new constitution in Kenya in 2010: Activists mobilized in...

Community radio gives voice to shack dwellers

15 Apr 2012

Presenters at the studio of Koch FM, Kenya's first licensed community radio station. Photograph:...

UN helps foreign fighters head home

19 Jan 2012

The first few haggard Rwandan rebels started to trickle out of the Congolese forests of North Kivu...

Africans reach out in solidarity with Haiti

A woman walking through the rubble in downtown Port au Prince
18 Jan 2012

A woman walking through the rubble in downtown Port au Prince, shortly after the earthquake:...

Uniting against terrorism across the Sahara

Seven governments are combining efforts to counter terrorist groups
18 Jan 2012

Seven governments in the Sahara-Sahel region are combining efforts to counter terrorist groups,...

Cameroon celebrates its 50th anniversary

Cameroon’s 50th anniversary of independence
18 Jan 2012

School children march in celebrations marking Cameroon’s 50th anniversary of independence....

Winding path to decent housing for South Africa’s poor

“We are waiting for houses,” says a resident of Soweto’s Motsoaledi shantytown
17 Jan 2012

“We are waiting for houses,” says a resident of Soweto’s Motsoaledi shantytown, standing by her...

‘Arab Spring’ stirs African hopes and anxieties

15 Aug 2011

Will popular upsurge in the north help spur reform south of the Sahara?

Africa Wired

15 Apr 2011

Wael Ghonim, one of Egypt's leading Internet activists, addressing pro-democracy demonstrators...