Full Coverage: East Africa

31.10.2007 Twice a year the Juba River overflows, flooding the surrounding Somali villages and farmlands, inciting hunger, and pushing people out of their homes. With the help of a Kenyan engineer and a disaster relief organization, however, villagers have learned to replace their ineffective sand bags with clay-based levees.

31.10.2007 PARIS, October 30 (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in east Africa.

30.10.2007 As the Kenya Human Rights Commission prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained in detention camps by survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence, Mukoma Wa Ngugi unravels the colonial myths of Christianisation and civilisation and exposes the reality of torture, murder, slavery, landlessness, dehumanisation and internment.
From: Pambazuka News

25.10.2007 Parliamentarians from 11 East African countries have formed a peace team that "intend[s] to meet all warring parties in the region," beginning with those in Darfur.
From: New Times (Kigali)

24.10.2007 Idris Osman, the head of the World Food Programme's office in Mogadishu, was freed yesterday after a week's detention.
From: World Food Programme

23.10.2007 Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano is the winner of the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which is worth $5 million over 10 years, $200,000 annually for life thereafter, and up to $200,000 a year for 10 years towards the winner's public interest activities and good causes.
From Mo Ibrahim Foundation

19.10.2007 More fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu left at least three people dead Thursday. Violence has become a part of the daily routine in the city as 129 civilians have been killed in the last month alone.

18.10.2007 Thirteen years after their own holocaust, a company of actors from Rwanda come to London to perform a play about Auschwitz.

18.10.2007 Gender inequalities and a widespread acceptance of sexual violence among couples in Zimbabwe are contributing to the exacerbation of the HIV/AIDS crisis, writes Masimba Biriwasha.

18.10.2007 Financial grants from an organization that works to alleviate global poverty is allowing Zimbabwean schools to waive mandatory tuition fees for vulnerable children such as orphans, who comprise one third of the country's youth population and are least likely to attend school.

18.10.2007 The World Food Programme suspended food distribution in Mogadishu after Somali government forces invaded the UN compound yesterday and abducted the local head of the agency in a move immediately condemned by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. And in Darfur, three WFP truck drivers were shot dead in the past week.

11.10.2007

11.10.2007 The Kenyan ISP sector is consolidating, with many companies buying up their competitors and new foreign owners entering the market. Pressure on margins from the switch to DSL broadband has been one of the key drivers of consolidation.

10.10.2007 The government of Uganda inaugurated a new plant this weekend to produce anti-retroviral and anti-malarial medicines.
From: New Vision (Uganda)

09.10.2007 The president's political party won a landslide victory in last week's elections in Madagascar, but a Malagasy blogger reports concerns about low turnout and inadequate supervision of the counting process.

05.10.2007 Simantoi Kilama was able to attend nursing school thanks to a scholarship offered to girls from the Maasai tribe of Eastern Kenya. Listen as she happily explains how her new position is expanding her horizons and enabling her to help her family out of the poverty that many Maasai face.

04.10.2007 Zambian activist Muyatwa Sitali explains how his nation's debt, which is over $700 per person, burdens the country and hinders well-meaning efforts to solve the problem of poverty.

04.10.2007 The Government has conceded to the demands made by Zimbabweans to amend the Public Order and Security Act (POSA.

03.10.2007 Starting with a loan that she received from a local pharmaceutical company, Dorah Nyanja, a registered nurse, set up a much-needed clinic in the Kenyan capital's largest slum.

02.10.2007 Events to mark the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, have been violently disrupted by pro-government militias. Ontibile Kababongwe reports from Masvingo.