Full Coverage: East Africa

30.12.2006 The United Nations resumed humanitarian flights into Somalia on Friday with a planeload of humanitarian workers and cargo.

30.12.2006 from Blue Planet:
The disappearance of the glaciers is causing trouble for the humans, animals and plants that have relied on fresh water from the melting glacier ice.

29.12.2006 Four Rwandans who settled in Britain were last night arrested in a coordinated operation after their home country sought their extradition in connection with its 1994 genocide.

29.12.2006 Thousands of people have fled their homes, and at least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured, as rival militias clashed in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
* Smugglers' boats capsize, leaving 17 dead and 140 missing

27.12.2006 The World Food Programme has suspended its helicopter operation delivering humanitarian aid from the Somali port of Kismayo and both its air drop operation and passenger flights from Kenya into Somalia, the organisation said on Wednesday.
* UNHCR positioning staff and relief items as thousands flee Somalia fighting

26.12.2006 The Famine Early Warning Systems Network has warned of the potentially "catastrophic" effects of all-out war in southern Somalia, where 1.1 million people are already facing a humanitarian crisis and 500,000 are seriously affected by floods.

26.12.2006 The Uganda government's end of year deadline for the return home of all internally displaced people in northern Uganda looks unlikely to be met.

22.12.2006 Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk in Somalia's flooded crisis areas because of severe water shortages, internal displacement, food insecurity and the threat of escalating violence, according to Oxfam.

20.12.2006 Don't drop "smart sanctions"against the Zimbabwe government, two major international trades union groupings urge the European Union.
* Zimbabwe Guide

20.12.2006 The UN will hold an inter-agency meet on communication for development at Addis Ababa on 12-14 February, 2007 to develop a UN-based common approach to C4D in the context of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The meet will be hosted by UNESCO.

18.12.2006 More than 89,000 people in 70 countries have joined a campaign asking Starbucks to stop dragging its feet and to support Ethiopia's ownership of its coffee names--a move that could be very important for the country's coffee farmers.

15.12.2006 Now that peace and stability have taken tentative root in much of Africa's Great Lakes region, several of the area's leaders signed a landmark deal Friday to help each other maintain peace and security and build stronger democratic institutions and economic prosperity.

15.12.2006 In his maiden speech in Parliament, Mwaanga said that government would not hesitate to cancel licenses from stations that do not follow the law and he would not tolerate what he termed “lawlessness” in the broadcasting sector to prevail.

Mwaanga however refused to comment on the implementation of the Zambia National Broadcasting (ZNBC) Amendment Act ad Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) acts because they were in court.

15.12.2006 The World Social Forum (WSF) has come a long way from its modest origins in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. In January 2007 Nairobi, Kenya, which will host the 7th edition of the WSF, will bring the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and others desend on the continent from across the world.

14.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 14 (OneWorld) - Human rights advocates are cheering the genocide conviction of former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam.

13.12.2006 Provisional results are showing re-election for Madagascar's president, a former businessman who took power four years ago and has largely been considered a liberal reformer.

10.12.2006 The existence of poverty in times of plenty not only breaches individuals' economic rights, but also curtails the enjoyment of most other rights as well, said an international civil society coalition reflecting on a recent visit to Zimbabwe. Human Rights Day is Sunday.

09.12.2006 from TerraDaily:
More than 40,000 people have been forced from their homes in southern Somalia's Jamame district alone by raging waters from the Juba River.

03.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2 (OneWorld) - Starbucks CEO Jim Donald traveled to Addis Ababa to meet with Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi this week in an effort to head off what's becoming an increasingly public dispute over the Ethiopian government's efforts to trademark the country's best-known coffee blends.

01.12.2006 On World AIDS Day, meet those who, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, are caring for Kenya's next generation.