Full Coverage: East Africa

28.02.2006 On-the-spot reports on Kenya's drought by members of AMREF's communications team, Arik Karani and Christine Misiko.

28.02.2006 HARARE City Council has launched a $200 billion computerisation project to replace the current system that had become derelict and unreliable.

28.02.2006 The race to position the country as Africa’s ICT hub kicks off in Nairobi today. Over 500 public and private sector policy and decision makers will hold a one-day national ICT conference to strategise on the way forward for the sector.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

24.02.2006 Kenya is facing a disaster of "immense proportions" because of unprecedented drought and the Africa-wide collapse of small-scale and household farming, a development group warned yesterday.
* UN envoy urges global community to explore root causes of hunger

24.02.2006 Ballots were being counted across Uganda on Friday after the country’s first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 26 years ended peacefully, election officials said.
* Yoweri Museveni: running on empty

24.02.2006 Corruption in Kenya is driven by neo-liberal policies imposed by the West as well as by a lack of democratic institutions, argues Onyango Oloo, a political activist and former political prisoner.

23.02.2006 Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.

21.02.2006 Mungai recommends a more significant consideration of environmental issues in the regional and national poverty reduction and ICT discussions in Kenya. Specifically, he recommends addressing poverty reduction as proposed in the
MDGs and resolutions of the WSSD.

21.02.2006 Two white-band protesters detained in Ethiopia since November have stated that they intend to plead not guilty. Their next court appearance is on Thursday 23 February.

20.02.2006 About two thousand people staged a peaceful demonstration in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Friday demanding that three top officials implicated in corruption resign or be dismissed.

17.02.2006 L.J.C. Autrey, S. Ramasamy and K.F. Ng Kee Kwong describe the achievements in the process of introducing precision farming technologies in Mauritius, and the challenges ahead.

17.02.2006 Hundreds of thousands of Somalis are at risk of dying from dehydration as people exist on a twentieth of the minimum water ration, says leading aid agency.

16.02.2006 The government (Kenya) aims to make Kenya an ICT capital of Africa to support Kenya's objectives of job and wealth creation.

15.02.2006 A coalition of human rights groups from around the world has named activists from Zimbabwe, Iran, and the Democratic Republic of Congo finalists for this year's Martin Ennals award. All four activists are in immediate need of protection, the groups say.

15.02.2006 Arms are flowing into the conflict-ridden Darfur region from neighbouring Chad, Eritrea and Libya, according to a report by UN experts.

15.02.2006 A project that provided tap water to a remote part of Ethiopia improved women's lives, but also led to increased childhood malnutrition, say researchers.

09.02.2006 The Zimbabwean government has launched a new assault on the country’s remaining independent press through a wave of criminal prosecutions and arrests, a rights group warned today.

09.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 9 (OneWorld) - United Nations experts are urging Sudan's neighbors to stop arms smuggling into the war-wrecked country. The move comes as advocates press the U.S. government to use its leadership of the UN Security Council to calm the killing fields of Darfur.