Full Coverage: East Africa

30.09.2005 Fears are growing in Uganda that the country is once again heading for dictatorship and misrule.

29.09.2005 President Robert Mugabe’s drive to win wealthy and uncritical friends in East Asia is doing little to rescue the economy.

29.09.2005 Ethiopian and Swedish terminologists will cooperate through an agreement recently reached between the National Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ethiopia (NATIE) and the Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC).

27.09.2005 A programme to boost information technology in schools will be launched by President Kibaki in Isiolo,Nairobi.

26.09.2005 Hundreds of genocide convicts in Rwanda, released under a presidential decree, have begun community work as part of punishment for their role in the 1994 killings, according to an official.

26.09.2005 A new project managed by AfriAfya and supported by Exchange is using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to communicate about health and development.This health communication project engages the knowledge of marginalised people in Kenya. The main emphasis is on analysing what information can be exchanged to improve the communities' situations.

23.09.2005 Before his death in August, Sudan's first Vice President John Garang issued an ultimatum that come November, Northern Uganda's rebels operating out of southern Sudan would face military action if they failed to disband. With Garang out of the picture, the rebels continue to be active, killing 17 in one recent attack.

22.09.2005 There is a real possibility that Ethiopia and Eritrea – currently locked in an uneasy peace – could return to war, the co-editor of a new book on the conflict warned this week, reports Daniel Nelson.

22.09.2005 inadequate rainfall and a poor harvest mean that 34 per cent of Malawians - including 1 million children and pregnant women - will be unable to get enough to eat until the next harvest in March 2006.

21.09.2005 Computer Aid International is working with Computers for Schools Kenya to install PCs in schools and provide the technical support and software needed need to use computers as an educational tool.

21.09.2005 Soccer matches involving Burundian soldiers, rebels and civilians are contributing to the drive for peace and democracy.

21.09.2005 The Ugandan military and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army continue to kill, rape and uproot civilians in northern Uganda with brazen impunity, says a new report.

21.09.2005 The Zimbabwean government has finally admitted that the country will run out of food by the end of this month. President Mugabe still refuses to make an urgent appeal to the international community, but it's probably too late to avert a human tragedy on a scale with Darfur anyway, says Zimbabwean writer Wilf Mbanga.

19.09.2005 After almost three months, the hijackers of a World Food Program (WFP) ship carrying food aid off the coast of Somalia pledged to release the cargo after reaching agreement that the 850 tons of rice meant for tsunami survivors be distributed in the "neglected" central region.

16.09.2005 NAIROBI, Sep 16 (IPS) - Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has held four elections. But, perhaps the most decisive ballot of all has been cast by citizens who voted with their feet -- leaving Kenya for countries that seemed more promising.

16.09.2005 A new report by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum traces the main consequences of Operation “Murambatsvina,” which according to the U.N. has left 700,000 people homeless since it was set in motion on May 19. The report also places the Operation into the context of events that have taken place in Zimbabwe over several years.

15.09.2005 The Government of Ethiopia is the first to deploy the Development Gateway Foundation's Aid Management Platform (AMP), a web-based information-sharing tool that helps improve the coordination and harmonisation of international development aid to ensure greater results for people in developing countries.

13.09.2005 UNESCO has extended its financial support to a project aiming towards leadership developnent among young women in Uganda. Supported within its Information for All Programme framework, UNESCO aims to foster "principles and practices of alternative leadership and to build their confidence in the use of ICT."

09.09.2005 The Kenyan government has reneged on previous promises and removed all references to marginalized groups, minorities, pastoralists and hunter-gatherers from the proposed new Kenyan constitution document.

08.09.2005 The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy for improving child health has been adopted in many countries.The pertinent question being,whether it is more cost-effective and impactful than conventional approaches to child health care ?A World Health Organisation multi-country evaluation of IMCI was set up to identify information to help improve the delivery of the strategy. In Tanzania, the study focuses on two rural districts where facility-based components of IMCI are being implemented.