Full Coverage: East Africa

21.05.2008 Up to six million Ethiopian under-5s are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and require urgent preventive health and nutrition interventions for severe malnutrition, the UN children's agency has warned.

07.05.2008 Erive Community Radio is bringing a change in the lives of young girls in Maganja da Costa. The UNICEF-supported station has led to a rise in enrollment in primary schools through its programmes promoting girls’ education. The station is run in partnership with Mozambique’s Social Communication Institute.

07.05.2008 Zimbabweans are increasingly harnessing new technologies -- notably cell phones and the internet -- to challenge the ever more dictatorial nature of Mugabe's regime.

02.05.2008 Once one of the few Maasai girls able to attend school and now the chairperson of a leading coalition of indigenous peoples' organizations in Africa, Mary Simat embodies the changing gender norms of the Kenyan Maasai community.

01.05.2008 An outreach and education program for youth that have lost their homes and families helps girls like Tryphine Chikabida, 14 years old, overcome the challenges of life in Zimbabwe.