Full Coverage: East Africa

28.07.2006 Eighteen members of parliament resigned Thursday, saying Somalia's transitional government authority is not interested in peace or reconciliation, and is instead preparing for war against the Islamic movement that recently took control of the capital.

25.07.2006 Under a new electoral act the media in Zambia will not be able to publish speculative analysis, unsourced opinion polls or predict the result before the official announcement in the 2006 elections, unless they are willing to risk a five-year jail sentence or US$2,500 fine.

14.07.2006 Have you known or heard of someone who has died before their fifth birthday? Do you feel child mortality is a great concern in your community? What could you do to help? Kids in Liberia, India, and elsewhere react to those questions and more.

13.07.2006 As the Rwandan government continues to try to establish national amity in the wake of the genocidal conflict between the country’s two dominant groups, the Hutus and Tutsis, a third community has been forgotten. Preti Taneja reports on the plight of the Batwa people.

13.07.2006 from Practical Action:
Kenya's first microhydro project, built mostly by local villagers, provides electric power to 1000 people.

12.07.2006 The second round of the BBC series, Tribe, features the Nyangatom in Ethiopia's Omo Valley. First programme: 16 July.
+ BBC launches second series of hit TV show, Tribe

11.07.2006 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has extended the deadline for the end of talks with the rebel Lords' Resistance Army, to 12 September.

09.07.2006 The problems of 20-30 million pastoralists in the Horn of Africa will be discussed at a regional gathering in Ethiopia on 11-18 July.

06.07.2006 Customs officers in Taiwan have seized more than two metric tonnes of illegal elephant ivory on ships travelling from Tanzania to The Philippines.

05.07.2006 President Yoweri Museveni has offered the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) an amnesty for crimes committed in northern Uganda, but the International Criminal Court (ICC), which indicted him, insists the insurgent must be arrested.

05.07.2006 President Yoweri Museveni has announced that Uganda will grant total amnesty to Joseph Kony despite his indictment by the International Criminal Court if he responds positively to the Southern Sudan mediated talks and abandons terrorism.

02.07.2006 First, find 100 Zimbabwean exiles. Not difficult, when so many have fled their country and fought against the British government’s determination to stem the number of people seeking refuge here.
A new theatrical production looks at the lives of Zimbabwean refugees in Britain.