Full Coverage: East Africa

31.03.2008 Zimbabweans heard Sunday night that the results of this weekend's general elections would be declared from 4am GMT on Monday, amidst mounting fears that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's failure to reveal the outcome of the vote earlier signalled further efforts to rig the polls.
+ OneWorld's Zimbabwe Guide

29.03.2008 Rose Benton on the vote in Zimbabwe and how her group plans to hold "mock elections" because they are convinced the results will be rigged.From The New Statesman

28.03.2008 Zambia has been forced to reallocate resources intended for poverty alleviation to pay a "vulture fund," a company that scammed the impoverished nation to make millions off its cancellation of a 1999 debt, writes an organization promoting African development.

27.03.2008 Malawi Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati on Friday said that the country will have a booming information and communication technology services after successfully piloting ICT telecentres in some districts of the country. To be regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), the telecentres will be run by women as a way of involving them in ICT activities, the minister said.

27.03.2008 It is astonishing to hear that some crazy person, or people, have suggested a Kenya Cabinet size of 44, says an anti-corruption blog.
From The Mars Group

27.03.2008 The crisis engulfing Somalia has deteriorated dramatically since NGOs warned in October of an impending humanitarian catastrophe, the organisations say in a statement aimed at putting pressure on members of the UN Security Council.

25.03.2008 As the March 29 Zimbabwean presidential elections near, an embedded African rights advocates are keeping a blog about the latest developments in the country, which is experiencing "the most severe social, economic and political crisis" of its history.

25.03.2008 A journalist working for Blantyre Newspapers Limited was arrested on Wednesday March 12 and detained by the Police in Mzuzu for taking pictures of a group of people that had gathered outside offices of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), after a police officer was arrested

25.03.2008 A journalist working for Blantyre Newspapers Limited was arrested on Wednesday March 12 and detained by the Police in Mzuzu for taking pictures of a group of people that had gathered outside offices of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), after a police officer was arrested.

25.03.2008 In Burundi, where a fragile peace now holds, Maggy Barankitse's orphanage and peace villages have changed the lives of as many as 10,000 children who lost their parents to the conflict.

21.03.2008 Hospitals in rural Tanzania have designed ways to communicate with doctors in referral hospitals using the Internet. The Bugando Referral Hospital in Mwanza has a telemedicine unit that connects Rubya and Kibondo hospitals. The remote hospitals are supplied with a computer, a scanner and a digital camera

21.03.2008 If the Kenyan lawmakers had debated and approved the recent ICT Bill put before parliament, some of the communications issues raised by the recent political crisis in that country would have been more easily dealt with, argues KICTANeT's Alice Wanjira.

21.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

21.03.2008 Demands by youths in Mazabuka for Government to increase the allocation of the youth empowerment fund has riled Mazabuka District Commissioner who has demanded the Mazabuka Community Radio Management to fire a Journalist Innocent Chinyemba who he accused of conspiring with youths who featured during the live debate program sponsored by the Press Freedom Committee of the Post Newspaper.

20.03.2008 The Kenyan government must bring to justice those responsible for "organized political and ethnic violence" and "unlawful killings by Kenyan police" during the post-election crisis, says an international human rights monitor.
From: Human Rights Watch

19.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

18.03.2008 Some Ugandan policymakers are seriously considering the results of a new study that recommends more funding for youth-friendly sex education and related services to stem the spread of HIV and other diseases.

14.03.2008 HARARE, Mar 14 (OneWorld) - Members of once esteemed professions in Zimbabwe -- teachers, nurses, and doctors -- have gone on strike over the paltry purchasing power of their wages.

13.03.2008 The number of Ugandans working as security guards in Iraq has hit the 6,000 mark, according to the Minister of State for Labour, Mwesigwa Rukutana.
From The Monitor

13.03.2008 Many of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Somalia are surviving on less than one meal a day, reports the International Committee of the Red Cross, as the protracted conflict in Mogadishu escalates and spreads to other parts of the nation.