Full Coverage: Africa

28.02.2006 On-the-spot reports on Kenya's drought by members of AMREF's communications team, Arik Karani and Christine Misiko.

28.02.2006 The head of Swaziland's oldest political party has pledged to officially register his organisation, testing whether the country's new constitution has really marked the end of decades of a royal decree prohibiting political opposition.

28.02.2006 Religious movements, including the Catholic, Pentecostal and African churches, are fuelling hatred and violence against children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a new report, The Invention of Child Witches.

28.02.2006 That technological breakthrough and advancements would continue to impact positively on humanity and their activities is not in doubt, what one can not boast about is how prepared society is, due to the limitations of cultural, religious, social, political and economic circumstances, to imbibe such innovations.

28.02.2006 HARARE City Council has launched a $200 billion computerisation project to replace the current system that had become derelict and unreliable.

28.02.2006 The race to position the country as Africa’s ICT hub kicks off in Nairobi today. Over 500 public and private sector policy and decision makers will hold a one-day national ICT conference to strategise on the way forward for the sector.

26.02.2006 In Bhutna has seen a substantial increase in honey production in Bumthang this year. The Beekeeper’s Association said that there had been an increase of almost 6000 kilograms compared to previous year. The association this time saw a total production of more than 12,000 kilograms of honey.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

24.02.2006 Kenya is facing a disaster of "immense proportions" because of unprecedented drought and the Africa-wide collapse of small-scale and household farming, a development group warned yesterday.
* UN envoy urges global community to explore root causes of hunger

24.02.2006 Ballots were being counted across Uganda on Friday after the country’s first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 26 years ended peacefully, election officials said.
* Yoweri Museveni: running on empty

24.02.2006 An end to continuing violence against lesbians in South Africa has been demanded by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission following a recent murder by a gang of men in Cape Town.

24.02.2006 Corruption in Kenya is driven by neo-liberal policies imposed by the West as well as by a lack of democratic institutions, argues Onyango Oloo, a political activist and former political prisoner.

24.02.2006 World's GSM umbrella body, the GSM Association, and Intel are jointly providing laptop computer users with automatic access to HSDPA and other GSM-based technologies and the ability to connect and roam across global mobile networks.

23.02.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (OneWorld) - The United States is using the issue of United Nations reform to consolidate domination of the world body by wealthy and powerful countries at the expense of the majority, say two-thirds of the UN's members.

23.02.2006 Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.

23.02.2006 “As African governments begin to implement e-government and e-commerce initiatives, the new terrain will be a haven for malicious hackers, who want bragging rights for bringing these sites down,” cautioned Michael Bitz, a consultant who facilitated discussions among ECA staff at a workshop on the Economics of E-security, held from 6-8 February 2006.

23.02.2006 Armed youths killed dozens of people and set fire to mosques and Muslim properties in more revenge attacks against Muslims in the mainly Christian southern Nigerian city of Onitsha yesterday.

23.02.2006 Information and communication technologies must be harnessed to support
Education for All goals at an affordable cost. They have great potential for knowledge dissemination, effective learning and the development of more efficient education services. To be effective, especially in developing countries, ICT should be combined with more traditional technologies such as books and radios and be more extensively applied to the training of teachers.

22.02.2006 Shell has temporarily shut its operations in Nigeria--one of the U.S.'s largest oil sources--after seven international workers were abducted and oil facilities attacked this weekend. But the corporation, which has long been condemned by rights activists for its practices in Nigeria, seems caught up in a civil conflict this time, explains the country's Vanguard newspaper.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.