Full Coverage: East Africa

31.01.2006 Topical tickets: Dr Karma Nabulsi talks about Palestine and The Politics of Democratic Change at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Kirsten Sellars discusses Trying Saddam and Other Dictators: the limits of justice at the London School of Economics this week; and with the Kenya government embroiled in a corruption scandal, the country's former anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, is talking at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 15 February.

31.01.2006 A reputable organization is seeking an Educational Content Coordinator to be based in Lusaka, Zambia. The incumbent will report to the Programme Manager. The Educational Content Coordinator will be responsible for managing the Educational Support Network (ESNET) project designed to supplement educational teaching materials with identified secondary schools in Zambia.

28.01.2006 The UN Security Council must stop the deluge of weapons into Africa's Great Lakes region - particularly northern Uganda and Congo - and protect civilians from attacks by armed groups, a leading charity urged.
* Security Council reviews proposed peacebuilding in Africa’s Great Lakes region

27.01.2006 The groundwork has been laid to bring Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, but complacency and corruption may leave millions waiting for justice. Others believe prosecution would do little to ease the suffering of the country's embittered citizens, anyway.

26.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 26 (OneWorld) - The UN Security Council has condemned an attack that killed eight Guatemalan UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid a new wave of violence sweeping the former Zaire and its neighbors in Africa's Great Lakes region.

26.01.2006 "I heard this evening that the UN are going to launch an emergency appeal for the area on 10 February. If donors don’t respond generously and immediately, what I’m seeing now will pale in comparison with what will come." Brendan Cox reports from Wajir, Kenya.

25.01.2006 A $200m undersea cable promising a massive improvement in the quality and cost of African telecommunications will go live only by the end of next year, or a year later than hoped.

25.01.2006 A thorough assessment of nutritional levels in Madagascar's drought-stricken southeast has revealed that not as many people as previously thought are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies, but the situation is still quite "fragile" and the front-line responders remain short on funds.

24.01.2006 Tribal disputes are on the increase as Kenya’s drought intensifies, a development agency has warned, with nomadic peoples starting to fight over scarce fertile land in the north-east.

24.01.2006 Some 3.5 million people need food relief as a result of prolonged drought following failed rains, the Kenyan government announced this week.

23.01.2006 UN refugee agency teams have been sent to the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to the arrival in the last few days of some 20,000 people fleeing fighting in the eastern DRC.

23.01.2006 The number of severely malnourished children in drought-hit Kenya may have doubled in the last few months, said the UN Children's Fund.

23.01.2006 Zimbabwean journalists are hopeful that media laws may be softened and that the Media and Information Commission (MIC) may have its wings clipped, writes Gugu Ziyaphapha.

20.01.2006 The unprecedented appointment of women to key posts in the Tanzanian cabinet is just a beginning, argues Salma Maoulidi: "We must ensure that women...make a difference once in office...lest we fall victims to the 'See, women can’t lead' rejoinder."

20.01.2006 Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has bowed to pressure and agreed that a constituent assembly would adopt the new constitution, as demanded by civil society and the opposition.

19.01.2006 Britain confirmed today that it is withholding direct budget support to Ethiopia because of dissatisfaction with the government's political record, but the Department for International Development denied UN reports that the sum withheld amounts to £50 million.
* ETHIOPIA: Britain withholds direct budget support

19.01.2006 Britain has withheld direct budget support worth around £50 million to the Ethiopian government over political unrest that followed disputed elections last May.

19.01.2006 Next Sunday 100 Ugandan churches are dedicating their services to talk about the desperate plight of the people in the war-torn north.

19.01.2006 Over 30 deaths have been reported in Northern Kenya, as drought intensifies. The actual number may be a lot higher.

18.01.2006 Heavy rain is hampering food distribution in southern Malawi for more than 70,000 people at risk from hunger because of drought.