Full Coverage: East Africa

29.09.2007 Fleeing violence, drought, and unemployment, a growing number of Somali and Ethiopian immigrants are attempting to escape across dangerous waters, often encountering death at the hands of smugglers, the sea, or Yemeni forces, reports the UN.

27.09.2007 WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Civil society activists from Zimbabwe recently traveled to the United States to lobby for a more just international economic structure and to raise awareness about their country's devastating economic crisis.

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

26.09.2007 Zambia’s Justice Minister George Kunda has accused The Post newspaper of working against the government on the Constitution-making process.

21.09.2007 Zimbabwean children as young as seven are walking alone through hostile territory to cross the South African border in a bid to escape crushing poverty at home, according to research by a leading children's charity.

21.09.2007 1st - 5th October, 2007, Nairobi, Kenya. Hundreds of new ideas on ICT development in Africa, lessons learnt from other regions of the world, discussions on policy, ICT investment, regional projects and research and development, etc.

21.09.2007 In the first case of its kind, a Harare magistrate has tried and convicted a man who was found in possession of a printed email message containing information that was said to denigrate President Robert Mugabe and Vice President Joice Mujuru.

18.09.2007 Six months before scheduled elections, Zimbabwe is closer than ever to complete collapse, according to the International Crisis Group.
From: International Crisis Group

18.09.2007

14.09.2007 After 21 years of war and tens of thousands of deaths, Uganda takes steps towards peace while the International Criminal Court attempts to uphold justice. Gareth McKibben considers whether the two can find common ground.

14.09.2007 Zambia’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, Mike Mulongoti, has warned journalists at the state-owned Daily Mail and Times of Zambia not to criticise the government.

14.09.2007 Three companies have been awarded tenders to construct the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) terrestrial. Two companies are Chinese (Huawei and ZTE) and another French (Sagem). The companues are currently doing a survey to determine the route which the cable will follow and also determine how long it will take to link the respective towns they are supposed to cover. It is not yet clear how the network will be run.

12.09.2007 An estimated 83,000 children in central and southern Somalia suffer from malnutrition, 13,500 of whom are severely malnourished and at risk of dying, warns the UN Children's Agency.

12.09.2007 Rich Stazinski argues that, in endemic and high conflict regions like Darfur, “lasting peace demands [justice], and victims deserve nothing less.”

11.09.2007 The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) has denounced a physical assault by a leading sports figure against a photo-journalist

06.09.2007 A medical humanitarian organization insists that Ethiopian authorities must grant it access to the conflict-ridden Somali region of the country, where the civilian population already struggles to cope with food insecurity and displacement.

06.09.2007 The Uganda Broadcasting Council has suspended a popular radio presenter for hosting gay activists who used "foul language" on air, effectively silencing a renewed debate on gay and lesbian rights.
From: International Freedom of Expression eXchange

05.09.2007 A prominent Somali press freedom activist and freelance journalist has been forced into hiding after gunmen went looking for him at his office in Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists.