Full Coverage: East Africa

31.05.2006 WASHINGTON, DC, May 31 (OneWorld) - A dramatic shift of funds and priorities is needed to stem the tide of the global AIDS pandemic, said women's health advocates in Washington, DC last week, marking the 25th anniversary of the disease's discovery.

30.05.2006 Mogadishu's Keysaney hospital was taken by armed fighters yesterday, despite repeated calls by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Somali Red Crescent Society for medical facilities to be spared.

29.05.2006 For many African governments, moves towards embracing e-governance have gone little beyond the opening of websites for state ministries and departments.

26.05.2006 The dispute between Somaliland and Somalia will become an ever-increasing source of friction, and possibly violence, unless the African Union engages in preventive diplomacy, the International Crisis Group has warned.

26.05.2006 Joseph Kony, the indicted commander-in-chief of the insurgent Lord’s Resistance Army, has announced that he is ready to hold peace talks with the Ugandan government to end two decades of fighting.

26.05.2006 "It seems as if everyone is at war against everyone," said one human rights worker in Mogadishu Thursday as fighting re-erupted in what many believe is a battle over control of the local trade of a light drug called khat.

24.05.2006 President Issaias Afeworki has been asked to mark Eritrea's independence anniversary today by releasing all prisoners of conscience, including 13 journalists held incommunicado.

20.05.2006 Almost two decades after Kenya banned the use of DDT, the Government is under pressure to lift the ban as one of the effective ways of controlling the spread of malaria.

19.05.2006 Information Minister Mutahi Kagwe says the government has set aside 2.1 billion shillings to install communication equipment that would enable rural areas access internet services.

19.05.2006 We set up camp on the grass in front of Santa Monica City Hall. Then we were all handed three pieces of blank paper: one for a letter to President Bush, one for a letter to one of our senators, and one for an art project.

19.05.2006 Churches across Zimbabwe are planning services and a procession - despite a government ban - to mark the first anniversary of Operation Clean Up that left hundreds of thousands homeless.

18.05.2006 The Somali government has described a surprise visit by British international development minister Hilary Benn to the town of Baidoa yesterday as a sign of the UK's support to the fledging government.

15.05.2006 Despite recent torrential rains, tens of thousands of pastoralist children still face death in the Horn of Africa, the UN Children's Fund said today.

15.05.2006 Hundreds of people, including many children, are being held in deplorable conditions in an unofficial detention centre in Rwanda, an international rights group said in a briefing paper issued today.

12.05.2006 Fighting between the so-called Islamic Courts and Anti-Terrorism Alliance, which is mostly comprised of warlords, has killed 125 and overwhelmed hospitals with wounded in Mogadishu. Italian missionaries report from the beleaguered city.

12.05.2006 As general elections approach, Zambian labour unions are threatening to unseat the ruling party for failing to pay back workers who ‘sacrificed’ benefits to help the country qualify for debt cancellation.

10.05.2006 A theatre company and a Zimbabwean trade union activist in exile have been working on a theatrical experiment - an exploration of the lives of over 100 Zimbabwean exiles in the UK. The result, QABUKA: Adventures in Exile, will be performed in London on 28 June-15 July.

09.05.2006 United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland was forced to curtail his visit to a camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur on Monday when an initially peaceful demonstration to show support for a planned deployment of a UN peacekeeping force turned rowdy.

03.05.2006 Keira Knightley's Vera Wang Oscar dress brought in nearly $8000 on eBay over the weekend. Every dime will go to Oxfam's efforts to fight a food crisis in East Africa that remains underfunded.

02.05.2006 In Ethiopia's toxic political climate, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government sweeps up journalists and shuts down newspapers, reports Julia Crawford.
* See also OneWorld UK Guide to Ethiopia