Full Coverage: East Africa

29.06.2007 As international donors meet in Maputo to discuss Mozambique's development, Elísio Macamo uses the country as an example of how aid can undermine sovereignty - and why former President Joaquim Chissano - a man admired for his diplomatic skills, composure and good manners - got angry.

26.06.2007 A leader of the Chagossian community - expelled from their Indian Ocean island home by Britain to allow development of a U.S. nuclear base - has attacked the UK government's decision to appeal against the third High Court ruling in their favour as “heartless and callous.”
+ Don't Appeal, UK Urged
+ Diega Garcia background
+ Islanders fight 'the final round'

22.06.2007 A U.S.-based non-profit working to end world poverty has welcomed this week's agreement between world coffee giants Starbucks and Ethiopia for its potential to give farmers a fairer share of the profits enjoyed worldwide by Ethiopian coffee.

21.06.2007 Contamination of the AIDS drug, Viracept, has created panic among HIV-positive Zambians on antiretroviral therapy, who fear other AIDS drugs may not be safe.
Roche, the Swiss company that manufactures the drug, announced that some batches of Viracept had been accidentally contaminated with mesylate (methane sulfonic acid ethylester), prompting a recall of the product from European Union markets

21.06.2007 The Ethiopian Government and Starbucks have signed an agreement that ends a clash over the licensing and promotion of three top Ethiopian coffees and threatened the carefully crafted ethical image of the world's biggest coffee chain.
+ Win-win Outcome for Ethiopian Coffee Farmers and Starbucks
* From Social Funds

20.06.2007 "Drought is serious now... disease spreads; children fall ill, people can’t be well-nourished; living becomes expensive; the price of animals falls. There is nothing good about desertification". Chuqulisa tells her story.

19.06.2007 Slave wages and the deaths of about 10,000 Zimbabwean farmworkers as a consequence of the government's land-redistribution policy are some of the issues highlighted by rights groups in a recent report published on the plight of the country's one million farmworkers.

18.06.2007 While the world's eyes were focused on violence between warlords, Ethiopians and Islamists in Somalia, the vice-president of a neighbouring Somali country visited the UK almost unnoticed.

15.06.2007 More than 100 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise were arrested this week after a peaceful demonstration to launch the People’s Charter, which includes demands for racial and political tolerance, the repeal of unjust laws, and equal access to land, education, and housing.

12.06.2007 Ethiopia's High Court has convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists.

12.06.2007 Although seizing this fragile opportunity for peace will require international troops on the ground, greater outreach by Somalia's government, and a constructive role from neighboring countries, a top UN official said Monday that "this is the best opportunity for peace that Somalia has had the past 16 years."

05.06.2007 The trial of Gift Phiri, the chief reporter of 'The Zimbabwean' who is facing charges of practicing journalism without accreditation, has now been set for 9 July 2007.

05.06.2007 Southern Sudanese military and official sources say the threat from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels has eased in eastern Equatoria, but widespread fear remains, whole villages are abandoned and a key road from Uganda to the Southern Sudan capital Juba is still patrolled by Sudanese and Ugandan troops.

01.06.2007 The UN refugee agency has protested to the European Commission about the way boatloads of people from North Africa have recently been left stranded at sea, despite being in distress and at risk of death.