Full Coverage: East Africa

29.02.2008 As Kenyans celebrate the political breakthrough over power-sharing, a crisis posing a risk to 35,000 people is looming in the north and south-east over water scarcity and pressure on grazing pastures.

28.02.2008 Global warming, swelling populations, and the increasing accessibility of arms are making water scarcity a growing source of conflict in Ethiopia and Kenya.

27.02.2008 Lasting peace is near at hand as the Ugandan government and main rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, finalized the last item on the peace negotiations agenda -- disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration.
From: The New Vision

27.02.2008 Chief mediator to Kenya's political reconciliation talks, Kofi Annan, said Monday that the talks had reached a stalemate as the rival parties could not agree on the role and powers of the proposed prime minister.
From: The Daily Nation

26.02.2008 Photographs from the 'front lines' of an international refugee agency's work in Kenya encapsulates the uncertainty and desperation of families and individuals displaced by the post-election uprisings.
From: openDemocracy

26.02.2008 The Chipata District Women’s Association in Zambia's Eastern Province is a community group set up by women to help them improve their livelihood. The association provides support to women in learning new skills, improving their capacity to earn more income and live healthier lives.

26.02.2008 In the absence of a reliable supply of other energy sources, the Zimbawean Government has launched a programme to promote the use of solar energy as an alternative source of energy for computers in schools around the country, in conjunction with Mukonitronics Private Limited. The programme to be spread to all the country's provinces is also being implemented with the Zimbabwe Academic Research Network.

25.02.2008 Armed groups are mobilizing on all sides of Kenya's ethno-political divisions and threatening to destabilize the ongoing peace talks, which many observers say have been making notable progress.

23.02.2008 The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have signed a deal declaring a "permanent ceasefire" at peace talks in Juba, southern Sudan.
From Sunday Monitor

22.02.2008 An agreement over how war crimes suspects will be tried has allowed peace negotiators to move on to discussing a permanent ceasefire, with hopes that a final deal will be struck "very soon."

21.02.2008 Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all highly dependent on Kenya for goods, transport links, and services -- are struggling to cope with the consequences of the east African nation's ongoing political crisis.

21.02.2008 The Sinazongwe District Development Committee in Southern Zambia has opened up an advocacy centre for its community. The advocacy centre based at Malima will provide services to over two thousand people from the area and will be used to access various ICTs.

21.02.2008 The Uganda government has struck a deal with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army about where their leaders will be tried.

19.02.2008 African development advocates are calling on the United States to engage multilaterally and in support of the democratic process in Zimbabwe, where March presidential elections could end the 18-year rule of Robert Mugabe and start the healing process after a near decade of acute political, social, and economic crisis.

18.02.2008 The African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT) is a pioneer Kenyan based ICT for Development with regional outreach, whose mission is to promote women's access to and use of ICTs as tools for social, economic and political advancement.

18.02.2008 The Chipata District Women’s Association, a community group set up by women to help them improve their livelihood. The association provides support to women in learning new skills, improving their capacity to earn more income and live healthier lives using mobile phones.It is made up of 12 area associations located in remote areas.

18.02.2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, urges the Kenyan government to call an end to the current ban on live news broadcasts in Kenya.

According to information before IPI, the ban was imposed on 30 December 2007 in response to violence following the recent presidential elections. The reason given to justify the ban, announced by the Kenyan Ministry for Security, was that the emotions demonstrated during live broadcasts were inciting violence. The ban remains in place, and covers all live news broadcasts by radio and television alike. The government has given no clear indication of when the ban will be lifted, stating that this will occur only once the situation has ‘cooled down.’

14.02.2008

14.02.2008 CEEWA-U has developed an ICT Project to bridge the information gap between information sources, institutions with information and the end users. The Project facilitates linkages with the women at the grass root level and assists in establishing the impact of government policies and programmes and how the use and application of ICTs create an avenue for bridging the information gap.

14.02.2008 The private newspaper industry in the country is about to collapse in the wake of high production costs worsened by an acute shortage of locally produced newsprint.