Full Coverage: East Africa

29.11.2006 Getachew and Ingida are seasoned farmers in the fertile area of Debre Zeit in rural Ethiopia who have shared their views on the hardship of feeding growing families.

29.11.2006 The first commodity exchange opened in Chicago 150 years ago to help farmers ensure a stable demand for their crop. Facing similar issues, Ethiopia is now looking into developing a similar system--based on its own needs.

29.11.2006 In Ethiopia, like in many countries in transition, there is a deep mistrust of traders. But without them, how would the country achieve its goal of commercializing agriculture?

29.11.2006 Commercializing agriculture—and creating a “new farmer” as the government aims to do—is no easy task, especially in a country where both the roads and telecommunications structures are among the weakest in the world.

29.11.2006 Changing lives depends most on listening to people and understanding what motivates them.

29.11.2006 Greenpeace has criticised the Indian government over its e-waste - waste from electronic and electrical equipment - policies for ignoring international laws and for putting the burden of handling e-waste on consumers and not producers. The organisation has said that the policy will "open the floodgates for dumping e-wastes in the country."

27.11.2006 "A woman was supposed to be seen and not heard," says the co-founder of the community group Womankind Kenya, which runs girls' schools and helps change attitudes among families and tribal leaders. "Now I'm being heard."

27.11.2006 International recognition of the self-declared independent state of Somaliland could secure a rare African success story, says international relations specialist Jawahir Adam.

22.11.2006 The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst floods in years. Thousands have fled their homes and 1.8 million people are affected across Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

21.11.2006 from Maribo blog:
Snippets from the UN FCCC final report. Next meeting: Bonn, Germany in May 2007.

21.11.2006 from The BBC:
What is the Nairobi conference actually doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

20.11.2006 "It's an extraordinary feeling to sit in the annual negotiations of the world's governments tackling one of the biggest threats to humankind - and to be surrounded by such a lack of urgency among most delegates", writes Oxfam's Kate Raworth. So what was the image that symbolised this conference? Not what you might expect.

16.11.2006 from Solar Generation blog:
SG have been very active at COP 12 Nairobi conference. Among other things, they've visited the Youth Solar project in one of the slums of Nairobi. Young people there are making small solar panels, which they sell, and the profit is reinvested in youth projects on various issues.

14.11.2006 After the euphoria of the weekend's march, where some 2,500 people--from international environmentalists to Kenyan pastoralists--demanded immediate global action to prevent climate change, campaigner Angelique Orr has returned to the main conference, coming back down to earth with a massive bump.

11.11.2006 from Solar Gen blog:
Solar Gen and the African youth had a chance to present their work at the climate change Kiosk, an initiative to get people engaged in the conference through the web. Check out the podcasts.

09.11.2006 from It’s Getting Hot In Here blog:
As far as the youth are concerned, notes Adam Scott, Canada’s new tack in their stance on climate was a tremendous effort in stalling action against climate change.

06.11.2006 "Sometimes I walk a long way to visit with women in their camps, but they don't always want to listen and sometimes they don't have time to talk. But I keep going--now we know things we didn't know before and we can be healthier," says Saida.

06.11.2006 As rebel and government negotiators continue to discuss peace terms for northern Uganda, a prominent international group has sent representatives to the country to determine if the humanitarian and protection situation in has improved.

02.11.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1 (OneWorld) - Calls for tougher action on global warming are intensifying as policy makers embark for Kenya, where weeklong talks on climate change are due to start Monday.

01.11.2006 JOHANNESBURG, Nov 1 (IPS) - "I was arrested a dozen times," notes Tapera Kapuya, a student leader at the University of Zimbabwe between 2001 and 2002, who says he was the target of both police and the Southern African country's intelligence agents.