The Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya was designed for 90,000 people.

It now holds 380,000 who have fled famine in Somalia. Aid workers are terrified this will rise to 450,000.

The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years, and the United Nations says ten million people could face famine.

members of International Socialists Botswana

A strike by tens of thousands of government workers has paralysed Botswana in southern Africa since Monday.

Six Zimbabwean activists are continuing to campaign against treason charges following their arrest at a meeting where they showed a video about the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.

French and United Nations (UN) helicopters bombed the compound of Ivory Coast’s sitting president Laurent Gbagbo on Monday.

Zimbabwean police raided a meeting of the International Socialist Organisation on the revolt in the Middle East last Saturday, arresting 52 people.

Yesterday's 50th anniversary of the killing of Patrice Lumumba has put a new focus on the wars still raging in the Congo.

The uprisings that spread across Tunisia in North Africa over the last two weeks in December mark an important moment in the country’s history.

It’s fifty years since the high tide of the anti-colonial movement. Ken Olende looks at what happened to the ‘wind of change’, and hopes for a new era

On Wed 1 Sept 2010 the masses in Mozambique burst into an uprising over rising bread, water and electricity.