Full Coverage: East Africa

28.08.2006 The signing Saturday of an agreement to cease hostilities--and new commitments from both warring parties--provided hope that a lasting peace could finally take hold in one of the world's worst humanitarian disaster zones.

23.08.2006 ActionAid is warning that the death toll due to flooding in Ethiopia could rise substantially in the next few days. Many of the 50,000 people made homeless by the floods are in danger of catching various life-threatening diseases, the agency said.

22.08.2006 A Monday deadline for Zimbabweans to exchange their old dollars for new denominations, intended to help ease the pain of near 1,000 percent hyperinflation, struck chaos upon the country.

21.08.2006 After 20 years of war, peace is a real possibility as negotiations continue between the Ugandan government and rebel groups. Travel with Oxfam's Clare Rudebeck to discover what everyday life is like for those caught in between.

21.08.2006 Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.

18.08.2006 from NextBillion.net blogs:
'If we simply adopted the rural Ugandan model of energy production, we could still enjoy all the virtues of American culture while avoiding its vices, namely obesity.'

16.08.2006 Eleven agencies in Kenya have agreed to share information, including classified intelligence reports, to form a common front in the fight against corruption.

11.08.2006 Current peace talks represent a great opportunity to end one of the world's "worst humanitarian nightmares," but U.S. ambivalence is undermining hopes for peace, say the co-founders of a grassroots Uganda advocacy group.

10.08.2006 Land reform began in Zimbabwe in 2000 in order to redistribute land from white-owned commercial farms to much poorer black communal farmers. "Before" and "after" maps show the plan's failure in graphic detail--Zimbabwe's farms are now slowly collapsing, to the detriment of all.

08.08.2006 In the face of rising opposition by proponents of Islamic law, Somalia's interim president has given his prime minister one week to form a new "leaner and more efficient" government.

07.08.2006 In video interviews, Kenyan women explain why condoms are vital forms of protection against HIV and why, in their culture, abstinence-only programs can sometimes do more harm than good.