Full Coverage: East Africa

27.02.2007 A leading development charity says it is delivering relief aid to more than 20,000 people living in one of the worst affected areas of Mozambique where floods have displaced 170,000 people and killed at least 45.

25.02.2007 Armed clashes in Mogadisu have increased in frequency and intensity in February, leaving dozens of people dead and many wounded and driving civilians from their homes, the Red Cross has warned.

23.02.2007 A campaign is being organised to pressure British Chancellor Gordon Brown to use his international influence to stop "outrageous and immoral vulture funds", through which companies buy developing countries’ debt cheaply and then try to reclaim much more money when the country is in better shape.
* Stop the Debt Vultures

22.02.2007 An epidemic of acute watery diarrhoea has caused hundreds of deaths in Ethiopia.

22.02.2007 Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.

20.02.2007 As floods continue to displace thousands of people in central Mozambique, Save the Children UK has urged that cash grants should be considered rather than food aid for long term recovery. Paul Harvey comments.

15.02.2007 The British Government’s bid to reverse a High Court ruling in favour of Indian Ocean islanders evicted from their homes 40 years ago to make way for a U.S. nuclear base is in its final day.

15.02.2007 A British court is expected today to deliver judgement involving a "vulture fund" - a company that buys up a country's debt at a bargain price and seeks to make a profit by pursuing it for an inflated figure through the courts.

15.02.2007 Somalia's people now need leadership and clarity from the international community to help them escape the tunnel of conflict, says Harun Hassan.

09.02.2007 China is to cancel all Mozambican public debt to China incurred in 1980-2005, President Hu Jintao announced yesterday.
From: allAfrica.com
* Christian Aid backs Benn over new Chinese loans to Africa

07.02.2007 A premature end to the peace talks between the Uganda government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army appeared inevitable after the LRA's second-in-command said the rebel outfit was resolute in its rejection of Juba as a venue, a Kampala newspaper reported.