Full Coverage: East Africa

26.10.2004 Providing information on websites is not enough for improving delivery of government services to the poor, points out a recent study on the usefulness of ICTs in improving governance. Citing the case of Mozambique, the report recommends integration of standardised information management practices in the government websites.

21.10.2004 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila has asked President Levy Mwanawasa to send a delegation to that country to investigate allegations of money and arms being used to destabilise Zambia. The allegations were made by former Vice President, Dr Nevers Mumba, who has since been fired from his government post.

21.10.2004 Zambia has declared HIV/AIDS a national emergency to drive HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention scale-up efforts and to start producing generic AIDS drugs locally. The emergency will be in force from August 2004 to July 2009 and local drugs manufacturers will be allowed to produce more affordable life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS in the country.

21.10.2004 The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has said it is concerned over the government's apparent "lack of regard" for the "rule of law." LAZ's comments came in the wake of President Levy Mwanawasa's move to dismiss the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mukelabai Mukelabai, allegedly unconstitutionally.

21.10.2004 Zambia's efforts to improve the quality of school education are being hampered by harsh conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a new report by the development agency, Oxfam, has claimed.

21.10.2004 Zambia's efforts to improve the quality of school education are being hampered by harsh conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a new report by the development agency, Oxfam, has claimed.

21.10.2004 Put a smile on the face of a bereaved child by sending a bag with a year’s supply of services and care items. The Academy for Educational Development has launched the Orphan Support Pack program to provide children under five orphaned by AIDS with urgently needed services and care items.

19.10.2004 Zimbabwe's tiny San community has laid the blame for their ongoing economic hardships squarely on the government, which they accuse of discrimination and neglect. While the San argue that they are a disadvantaged people in need of humanitarian support in order to escape poverty, some neighbouring villagers look down on them - accusing them of alcoholism and a refusal to embrace "modernisation".

19.10.2004 The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) Amendment Bill, which is designed to tighten the controversial media law, was tabled in Parliament on 5 October 2004.

18.10.2004 Government and the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) have established a task force to mobilise $13.7 million by March for the expansion of irrigation farming in Zambia. After a good harvest in last farming season. Government is working towards improving the agricultural sector.

18.10.2004 Zimbabwean government policies deny political opponents food access and threaten to leave millions facing desperate hunger, says Amnesty International.

15.10.2004 While the Zambian government will be expected to give up to $156 million to the IMF in debt payments this year, it does not have the resources to help solve the teacher crisis which has put thousands of Zambian teachers out of work, and even more students without an adequate education. The Global Campaign for Education report has made a number of recommendations to the IMF, all without any positive response.

15.10.2004 While the Zambian government will be expected to give up to $156 million to the IMF in debt payments this year, it does not have the resources to help solve the teacher crisis which has put thousands of Zambian teachers out of work, and even more students without an adequate education. The Global Campaign for Education report has made a number of recommendations to the IMF, all without any positive response.

14.10.2004 A grant by the French will contribute to Burundi’s fund which will help Burundi honor its debt service obligations towards multilateral institutions.

08.10.2004 Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society in transforming national and international politics, particularly in Africa, over the last several decades.

08.10.2004 Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society in transforming national and international politics, particularly in Africa, over the last several decades.

06.10.2004 Kenya’s 3,000 public secondary schools are short of more than 70,000 computers, forcing more and more students to pay extra to learn computers at private institutes. To bridge this gap and boost learning aids in schools, the country’s private companies are now being asked to donate computers.

05.10.2004 UNESCO’s WINISIS software is one of the most popular for storage and retrieval of information in Zambia. More than 500 librarians, records officers and IT managers in the country are using WINISIS after undergoing training.

05.10.2004 Two top officials of a Kenyan jail where five inmates were allegedly beaten to death have been suspended when it emerged that another nine prisoners from the same jail had died in hospital over the past week.

05.10.2004 Four years after Zimbabwe's land reform campaign turned violent, South Africa and Namibia are facing the same conundrum, struggling to redress imbalances from British and German colonial rule.