Full Coverage: East Africa

31.01.2007 Campaigners are to protest outside of the French embassy in London on Friday to urge the government to stop representatives of the Zimbabwean government attending a forthcoming Franco-African summit.
* Zimbabwe organisation faces charges after pro-democracy church service

26.01.2007 The World Social Forum's 50,000 participants prepared to return home Friday as Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai urged them to keep plugging away against the world's injustices.

25.01.2007 Mary Robinson and Patricia Daniel blog from the World Social Forum in Nairobi.

22.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 20 (OneWorld) - Worried that a continued deadlock in peace talks between the Ugandan government and rebel forces could unleash another wave of bloodshed, international aid organizations are urging the United Nations to step up its efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.

21.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 19 (OneWorld) - According to the human rights organization Oxfam, U.S. and Ethiopian air strikes in Somalia last week killed 70 nomadic herdsmen who had no connection to any international terrorist group, including al-Qaeda, which the Pentagon said was the target of its attacks.

21.01.2007 A worldwide campaign for Decent Work was launched today in Nairobi at the World Social Forum by the Decent Work Alliance and with the help of Wangari Maathai, Kenya's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

18.01.2007 A cast of former street children from will showcase their widely acclaimed play on AIDS, "Mapenzi Tamu" (sweet love), during the World Social Forum in Nairobi next week.

18.01.2007 Forest Whitaker has been widely hailed for his performance as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. But is the film, The Last King of Scotland, really worth seeing?

17.01.2007 CGP will be present at the World Social Forum in Nairobi and will organise three round table discussions on the 21st of January 2007. All activities will take place in the Moi International Sport Center in Kasarani. Everybody is most welcome to participate in the discussions.

16.01.2007 While all sides claim they are still committed to the peace process, Ugandan rebels have demanded talks be moved from South Sudan to a "neutral" country like Kenya or South Africa. Sudanese leaders say comments that sparked the rebel outcry were taken out of context.

12.01.2007 Zimbabwean writer Stanley Makuwe looks at what it means not to have access to basic services - from the point of view of dead people.

11.01.2007 Reports from East Africa show that local people seem concerned less about U.S. plans to kill three suspected terrorists and more about the loss of life and political fallout as a result of the United States' latest unilateral show of force.

11.01.2007 International diplomacy is one of the big losers following the past weeks' fighting in Somalia, says journalist Harun Hassan in his detailed explanation of what led to and can be expected to result from the present volatility.

11.01.2007 "If we keep quiet about American military planes flying over African skies, they will paint our lands red with blood," says retired law professor Issa Shivji.
From: Pambazuka News

11.01.2007 US air strikes against so-called Islamist fighters in Somalia will do little to bring peace and security to the region, says a leading development group.

10.01.2007 Tuberculosis, malnutrition, and the devastation of wars in the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Congo are profoundly affecting millions of people yet remain almost invisible in the U.S. media, says Médecins Sans Frontières.

09.01.2007 As President Bush prepares a major speech to call for a "troop surge" in Iraq and simultaneously discuss his global anti-terror plans, a U.S. warplane described as "an appallingly blunt instrument" attacked two Somali towns Monday. Helicopter attacks were reported Tuesday as well.

09.01.2007 New legal moves appear to be the beginning of an effort by Zimbabwe's government to wrest control of the country's two remaining independent weekly newspapers, analysts say.

04.01.2007 Top human rights lawyers and church leaders in Zimbabwe have called for the extradition of former Ethiopian president Mengistu Haile Mariam, who has been convicted in absentia for crimes of genocide by a court in Addis Ababa.
From: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

04.01.2007 Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) a non-governmental organisation in Uganda is developing suitable mechanisms in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.