The Congo's killing fields: families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame?
Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor showed him that small place. What he doesn't know is how his father got there, and there was no one he could safely ask, not then. Twelve years ago he and his family made one of a series...

Company Watch - Embraer.
7/14/2008 Airlines may be struggling with fuel costs, but a Wellington-based maker of aircraft interiors is flying high with new business in executive jets. B/E Aerospace announced Friday it won a $200 million contract from Embraer - Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. Business jets represent 11.5 percent...

Company Watch - Kenya Airways.
7/14/2008 Kenya Airways, one of Africa's leading carriers, is recovering from the loss of a Boeing 737-800, which crashed in Cameroon last year. It was also hit hard by post-election violence in Kenya earlier this year, which damaged the tourism sector. 7/16/2008 Kenya Airways' 2007/08...

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa.
9781847016027 Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Ed. by Henri Medard and Shane Doyle. James Currey Publishers 2007 273 pages $59.95 Hardcover East African studies HT1427 ...

Company Watch - Embraer.
7/21/2008 Embraer unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow orders for 22 of its 190 aircraft and options on 20 more: Aeromexico orders 12 190 aircraft and takes 15 options; Saudi low-cost carrier orders five 190 aircraft; and Niki Lauda's Niki orders five 190 aircraft with five options. 7/15/2008...

Company Watch - Kenya Airways.
7/21/2008 Kenya Airways, one of Africa's leading carriers, is recovering from the loss of a Boeing 737-800, which crashed in Cameroon last year. It was also hit hard by post-election violence in Kenya earlier this year, which damaged the tourism sector. 7/16/2008 Kenya Airways' 2007/08...

Violence against women in Burundi.
In early January 2008, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) submitted a shadow report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in collaboration with the Burundian Christians Association for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT) to be considered alongside the State report. This report denounced...

'It is great to be an African'.
Zambia's Ambassador to Washington, Dr Inonge Mbikusita Lewanika, is one of the six candidates for the chair of the African Union Commission. She is a distinguished politician, civic activist and diplomat who has led peace missions in Burundi, Rwanda and the Horn of Africa as part of her illustrious...

Funding proposals for integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health care.
The Global AIDS Alliance, Interact Worldwide, the International HIM/AIDS Alliance, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and their Africa Regional Office, Friends of the Global Fund Africa, and Population Action International hosted the launch meeting for the "Mobilizing for RH/HIV Integration" initiative 26-29 February 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This...

Essar Oil picks 50% in Kenya Petroleum.
MUMBAI: Essar Energy Overseas, an Essar Oil subsidiary, has signed an agreement to acquire 50% stake in Mombasa-based Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPRL), a four million metric tonne refinery. Essar will acquire the stake from Shell Petroleum, Chevron Global and BP Africa. The Kenyan government holds the remaining...