Full Coverage: East Africa

31.08.2004 The Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa (MDPESA) invites participants to a video conference session on "Information and Communication Technology: Potentials and Challenges for Local Government" to be held on Friday 3 September 2004. This session is part of the ongoing Africa Local Government Action Forum (ALGAF). The presenter for the Session is Dr. Sisti P. Cariah from Tanzania.

26.08.2004 The Millenium Development Goals(MDGs) Campaign is one of the key strategic tools of the United Nations for achieving the MDGs. The website for the MDG Campaign is a vital component for outreach and awareness of the campaigns goals, indicators and achievements.

26.08.2004 The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has suspended its participation in all elections until the Zimbabwean government adheres to Southern African Development Community (SADC) guidelines on free and fair polls.

25.08.2004 The African Computing and Telecommunications Summit will be held in Mauritius from 7-9 September 2004. ACT 2004 aims to help build partnerships in mainstreaming Africa’s ICT sector.

24.08.2004 The withering relationship between Eritrean authorities and the UN peacekeepers in Eritrea and Ethiopia has been rejuvenated, through the reopening of an important roadlink. This, after the souring of ties in May, when the peacekeepers were accused of threatening national peace and stability.

23.08.2004 OneWorld partner Oxfam provides basic information and facts about the events in Rwanda in 1994, their causes, and what is happening today.

23.08.2004 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is set to close in 2010 but more than half its cases have yet to go to trial. There is a funding shortfall for the tribunal and a lack of international cooperation in the investigations.

23.08.2004 Two United Nations agencies have appealed for millions of dollars for relief operations designed to alleviate the suffering of an estimated 2.3 million Kenyans facing food shortages in the Coast, Eastern, Northeastern and Rift Valley provinces where prolonged drought has resulted in near total crop failure.

18.08.2004 Human rights campaigners are calling for an independent impartial investigation into the killing of more than 150 Congolese refugees in Burundi during the night of 13 August, and for the findings to be made public and acted upon, with the perpetrators brought to justice. Many of the victims were women and children.

18.08.2004 Both the civil society and private sector in Kenya have raised concern at their exclusion from consultations on the drafting of the country's ICT policy. The draft policy is said to have left out several critical ICT issues.

18.08.2004 Both civil society and the private sector in Kenya have raised concerns about their exclusion from consultations on the drafting of the country's ICT policy. The policy is said to exclude several critical ICT issues in a country of poor public access to the internet.

18.08.2004 Amnesty International is calling on the Security Council to mandate the UN missions in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa to initiate an independent, impartial investigation into the deliberate attack on Congolese refugees that left more than 150 people dead last week. The group urges that the investigation examine the failure to protect the refugees who were in the Gatumba area of Burundi and, conclusively identify and bring the perpetrators to justice so as to prevent such gross violation of human rights in the future.

17.08.2004 Kenya’s health and water project is set to receive a major boost totaling US $60.51 million in grants and loans. The money from the African Development Fund (ADF) will fund projects aimed at strengthening rural health facilities and improving water-supply and sanitation infrastructure in Rift Valley Province

13.08.2004 Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Zimbabwe government to release information on grain availability in the country as part of its obligations to ensure its citizens' right to food. It called on the government to make the information public immediately saying that by withholding vital information on grain availability, the government was "gambling with its citizens' access to food".

13.08.2004 Given the current media environment in Zimbabwe, free and fair elections in March 2005 are highly unlikely, a fact finding mission to Zimbabwe has said in a report released by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA).

12.08.2004 The arrival in Malawi of a team of US climate researchers has raised hopes among officials in the country that oil reserves will one day be found under Lake Malawi. The researchers will soon begin drilling the bottom of the lake as part of a study on tropical climate shifts in sub-Saharan Africa.

12.08.2004 It is now 20 years since the 1984 Ethiopia famine and Live Aid. Yet Ethiopia remains steeped in poverty. Save the Children - the largest active NGO in Ethiopia - believes it is crucial to ask why so little has changed and to point to possible long-term solutions.

12.08.2004 A recent decision by the government of Mauritius to investigate the possibility of instituting sanctions against private radio stations has raised concern among media freedom groups.

12.08.2004 Only seventeen months after the new popularly elected government won elections on a platform of zero tolerance to corruption, high-level corruption that riddled the country under the previous regime has reared its head.

11.08.2004 Erratic rainfall has caused massive crop failure in Kenya, prompting Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to declare a national disaster in July. At the same time, a harmful grain mold, aflatoxin, has contaminated some of the grain that was harvested, forcing the government to destroy some of its own grain reserves.