Full Coverage: East Africa

31.12.2007 "Disappointed, angry, jaded... uncertainty... police state." These are the the terms being used in Kenya to describe the volatile situation in the streets Monday after it was announced that President Mwai Kibaki had won a close and disputed election.

30.12.2007 Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on Sunday for a second and final term as riots and protests erupted in parts of the country over the election results.
From Daily Nation
* OneWorld Guide to Kenya

30.12.2007 Kenya's Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the 2007 polls and he was immediately sworn in at State House gardens to serve a second term.
From The Standard
+ OneWorld Guide to Kenya

30.12.2007 Desperation, mutual suspicion, mistrust and anxiety provoked by a delay in announcing the winner of Kenya's presidential vote puts the country on the threshold of crisis.
From The Standard
* OneWorld Guide to Kenya

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

27.12.2007 The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders.
From UN News

26.12.2007 The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.

24.12.2007 Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.

22.12.2007

21.12.2007 Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning…Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.

21.12.2007 Three Somali women working at an international emergency relief organization in this eastern African country reflect on gender equality and education in the Horn of Africa.

20.12.2007 Parts of northern Uganda face imminent famine, threatening the lives of over 1.5 million people, according to New Vision newspaper.

19.12.2007 A Zambian, HIV-positive preacher works to improve HIV/AIDS education and treatment in the face of discrimination and social stigma.

19.12.2007 On December 14 2007, the Zimbabwean government published proposed amendments to the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA).

19.12.2007 The race to complete East African undersea cables is officially on the way, with both Seacom and Eassy announcing that construction of their respective cables has commenced.

18.12.2007 An international organization working on food security will provide Ethiopia with the world's first 'humanitarian' insurance and contingency plan to cover 6.7 million people, in case there is a drought comparable to the one that hit the Horn of Africa country in 2002-2003.

18.12.2007

17.12.2007 "The SADC [South African Development Community] countries need to ratchet up their pressure [on Zimbabwe], and they need to do it not just behind doors but openly so that world public opinion can be mobilised behind African voices, behind African leadership," said the secretary-general of human rights organization, after attending a meeting in Cape Town last week to launch a new global campaign for human rights.

13.12.2007 Accused of committing human rights atrocities during his long tenure, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at the EU-Africa summit amid vociferous demonstrations by protesters and official condemnation by European heads of state.

12.12.2007 An estimated 600,000 Somalis have been forced out of their homes in Mogadishu due to a recent resurgence in violence, intensifying the humanitarian crisis brought on by years of civil strife and natural disasters.