ion of the News from AEFJN is now online. It contains news on UN Climate Summit in Durban (big business control the negotiations, REDD+ market mechanism is criticised), on protection of biodiversity and report on land rush, on Small Arms Flows and Communities in Kenya, on the Ethno-Religious Conflict in Nigeria, on Benin’s Universal Health Insurance Plan, efavirenz and AZT regimens for HIV treatment, on Africa lying naked to Euro-American Military Offensive and on Malawi urban poor hit by slew of price increases.
The national election campaign officially started the 28th October in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), exactly one month ahead of historic presidential and legislative elections, scheduled for November 28 2011. 41 humanitarian and human rights organizations, among them AEFJN, have expressed concern about the high political tension and deteriorating security situation. They have called upon all Congolese and international actors involved to take urgent measures to prevent electoral violence, better protect civilians and ensure credible, free and fair elections.
A simple booklet for workers in health centers in Africa, with guidelines on how to ensure the quality of purchased drugs. How can we assure the quality of the medicines we are buying? What do we need to know? What precautions should we take?
To encourage the commitment of AEFJN members in Africa, towards the fight against the proliferation of small arms in the continent, AEFJN has published a booklet with the organizations working for greater control of arms in Africa. 
African journalists at the mercy of the continent’s instability
In its 2009 Annual Report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) states that the year 2009 has confirmed that in some African countries political crises and instability have hit the work of journalists and the media very hard. RSF considers that states where violence rages find themselves at the lowest level in the world classification of freedom of the media. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), listed as 146th in the world, journalists live in fear of attack and arbitrary arrest. Rwanda (157th), due to tighter control of information as the 2010 elections approach, continues to sink lower with the temporary suspension of local and international media and the sentencing of journalists to prison sentences. It is in this climate that media professionals working in Burundi decided on 4 October 2009 to replace the old Burundian Association of Journalists (ABJ) by a free and independent union of professional and comparable journalists entitled
The Burundian Union of Journalists" (UBJ). Its main objectives are to "protect and strengthen the rights and freedoms of professional and comparable journalists in both the public and private media ». The UBJ intends also «to encourage the media to defend the freedom of the press, social justice and the independence of journalism », especially through control of violations of the rights of professional and comparable journalists.