Full Coverage: Africa

31.03.2008 Zimbabweans heard Sunday night that the results of this weekend's general elections would be declared from 4am GMT on Monday, amidst mounting fears that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's failure to reveal the outcome of the vote earlier signalled further efforts to rig the polls.
+ OneWorld's Zimbabwe Guide

29.03.2008 Rose Benton on the vote in Zimbabwe and how her group plans to hold "mock elections" because they are convinced the results will be rigged.From The New Statesman

28.03.2008 Zambia has been forced to reallocate resources intended for poverty alleviation to pay a "vulture fund," a company that scammed the impoverished nation to make millions off its cancellation of a 1999 debt, writes an organization promoting African development.

28.03.2008 A photographer blogs about her experiences in Sierra Leone, where she uses digital photography to help women and girls that have survived conflict, displacement, and gender violence make themselves heard.

27.03.2008 As players in the ICT industry,we are to provide impetus and help to monitor the implementation mechanism that will harness the translation of the Policy into tangible results on the ground. Our contribution towards this process must ensure policy implementation strategies speeds up at all levels.

27.03.2008 Malawi Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati on Friday said that the country will have a booming information and communication technology services after successfully piloting ICT telecentres in some districts of the country. To be regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), the telecentres will be run by women as a way of involving them in ICT activities, the minister said.

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

27.03.2008 For the past two weeks, Gambians have been unable to access the Freedom Newspaper, an online Gambia newspaper based in United States of America, which has been very critical of the administration of President Yahya Jammeh.

27.03.2008 It is astonishing to hear that some crazy person, or people, have suggested a Kenya Cabinet size of 44, says an anti-corruption blog.
From The Mars Group

27.03.2008 The crisis engulfing Somalia has deteriorated dramatically since NGOs warned in October of an impending humanitarian catastrophe, the organisations say in a statement aimed at putting pressure on members of the UN Security Council.

25.03.2008 As the March 29 Zimbabwean presidential elections near, an embedded African rights advocates are keeping a blog about the latest developments in the country, which is experiencing "the most severe social, economic and political crisis" of its history.

25.03.2008 Convergence has been creeping up on the telecoms and Internet sectors in Africa. Orange has been quietly promoting its Livebox product in a widening range of countries and Telkom will shortly launch IP-TV services through Telkom Media. Gateway Communications set up GTV to compete with DStv in the satellite Pay TV market. However, up until now there has been little data to work out what any of this might mean. In a world in which telcos are becoming broadcasters and broadcasters may yet return the favour by offering voice and Internet services, telcos and ISPs need to know what their peers in the broadcast sector are doing.

25.03.2008 A journalist working for Blantyre Newspapers Limited was arrested on Wednesday March 12 and detained by the Police in Mzuzu for taking pictures of a group of people that had gathered outside offices of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), after a police officer was arrested.

25.03.2008 In Burundi, where a fragile peace now holds, Maggy Barankitse's orphanage and peace villages have changed the lives of as many as 10,000 children who lost their parents to the conflict.

25.03.2008 Remote rural communities have lost their farmland and access to clean water in South Africa as a result of mining by Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest platinum company, according to a report released today.

21.03.2008 Hospitals in rural Tanzania have designed ways to communicate with doctors in referral hospitals using the Internet. The Bugando Referral Hospital in Mwanza has a telemedicine unit that connects Rubya and Kibondo hospitals. The remote hospitals are supplied with a computer, a scanner and a digital camera

21.03.2008 If the Kenyan lawmakers had debated and approved the recent ICT Bill put before parliament, some of the communications issues raised by the recent political crisis in that country would have been more easily dealt with, argues KICTANeT's Alice Wanjira.

21.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

21.03.2008 Demands by youths in Mazabuka for Government to increase the allocation of the youth empowerment fund has riled Mazabuka District Commissioner who has demanded the Mazabuka Community Radio Management to fire a Journalist Innocent Chinyemba who he accused of conspiring with youths who featured during the live debate program sponsored by the Press Freedom Committee of the Post Newspaper.