Full Coverage: East Africa

04/28/2006 Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up a fund for the 365,000 survivors who continue against the odds, haunted by memories and under threat from perpetrators now released from prison. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming at the National Theatre in London, on 27 June she will discuss the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities.

04/28/2006 Itäisen Afrikan pitkä kivuus on ajanut yli 11 miljoonaa ihmistä nälänhätään. Kuivuuden runtelemassa Keniassa alkaneet kovat sateet toivat mukanaan uusia ongelmia. Tulvat ovat ajaneet ihmisiä kodeistaan, katkaisseet teitä ja levittäneet vaarallisia sairauksia, kuten malariaa ja ripulia.

04/28/2006 Kansainvälinen avustusjärjestö ActionAid sanoo aloittaneensa ruokatoimitukset kuivuudesta kärsivään Burundiin Keski-Afrikassa. Järjestön mukaan elintarvikepula on tappanut maassa jo satoja ihmisiä. Tilannetta pahentaa kymmenien tuhansien kotieläinten menehtyminen.

04/28/2006 Media organisations and internet service providers (ISPs) in Zimbabwe are up in arms about the government's planned introduction of a bill to regulate cyber-communication in the "interests of national security".

04/28/2006 A recent spate of attacks in South Darfur State seems to constitute a new military offensive by the Sudanese government and puts the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk, regional analysts have warned.

04/28/2006 A soldier was injured during heavy fighting between Kenyan and Ethiopian forces in Moyale District, northern Kenya, after about 60 Ethiopian soldiers crossed the border in pursuit of suspected Oromo Liberation Front rebels. Drought has made historic border tensions even worse, with constant cross-border raids and stock theft.

04/27/2006 Administrators of Gakoni and Kiramuruzi sector in Gatsibo District want the government to set up an ICT centre at Gakoni Pyrotechnic School, to benefit both students and residents.

04/26/2006 Several years of poor rainfall, compounded by the lack of a national food security policy and chronic poverty, have brought two million people – nearly one in three of Burundi’s population - to the brink of starvation, says a development charity.

04/26/2006 Sitting on thin foam mattresses sprawled across a crude cement floor in drought-stricken northern Kenya, dozens of mothers nurse emaciated babies as flies hover around mosquito netting.The odours of medicine and sweat mixed with the stench of disease hang in the foetid air under the iron roof of this hospital annex. Set up to take in overflow from the packed paediatric ward, it too is filled with infants howling and batting futilely at feeding tubes in their nostrils.

These are the latest victims of a drought that has put more than 11-million people across East Africa at risk of starvation, 3,5-million of them in Kenya, where recent heavy rains have exacerbated already dire conditions.

04/25/2006 You will be responsible for ICT capacity development of our local partners in one or two developing countries. To start with this will be Tanzania.

04/25/2006 A new study by Uganda's telecommunications regulator has showed that 46% of Ugandans in the capital, Kampala and three major towns use the Internet.

04/24/2006 Crossing the River Nile to enter northern Uganda is more than just a visible example of the immense power of the world's longest river but is also a testimony to the divide between two versions of the same country – a war-ravaged north and a much more prosperous south.

04/23/2006 World Vision's chief Africa correspondent says a looming famine should not prompt despair.

04/21/2006 About 3.5 million Kenyans face the threat of starvation as the food crisis worsens, despite recent rains, a development charity warned yesterday.

04/20/2006 Brazil and Kenya will call for an international fund for research on "neglected diseases" at a World Health Organization meeting next month.

04/20/2006 Uganda has asked the UN Security Council to support strong measures to hunt down, disarm and prosecute the the Lord's Resistance Army, which has waged a 20-year campaign of terror.

04/20/2006 Oxfam has launched the biggest food crisis appeal in its 60-year history, asking the British public to give £20 million to fund its work in East Africa, where 11 million people are in urgent need of assistance.
* Key NGOs cautiously optimistic on CERF

04/17/2006 New technology is not always better. Sometimes simpler, more traditional communication technologies can provide the most effective solution to information sharing.

04/17/2006 Tumsifu Lema, 68, is an organic farmer in Shirin Joro village in Tanzania. He grows mixed crops on his two acres of land, including vegetables, maize, sunflower and coffee, and he is constantly looking out for new organic farming techniques.

04/17/2006 Il giorno di Pasqua all’interno della baraccopoli di Korogocho presso la struttura di St. John è stato organizzato il primo Festival internazionale delle arti, un festival di artisti e giovani professionisti – acrobati, musicisti, danzatori. Considerate le spiccate doti artistiche dei ragazzi dello slum, lo spettacolo offerto ai partecipanti è stato sicuramente di alto livello. Ogni esibizione è stata intervallata da un breve discorso sugli argomenti che stanno più a cuore: il trasferimento della discarica attualmente all’interno di Korogocho, il recupero strutturale dello ‘slum’, l’incidenza dell'Aids sulla gente del luogo. E oggi, Pasquetta, sarà inaugurata la ‘Napenda Kuishi home’, un centro costruito a Kibiko, una trentina di chilometri da Korogocho, destinato ad ospitare gli alcolisti e i bambini di strada della baraccopoli ormai usciti dall’incubo della dipendenza. “I nostri ex ragazzi di strada avranno una nuova casa, terreni agricoli da coltivare e bestiame da accudire: per chi ha sempre vissuto nello ‘slum’ e non ha mai visto né un vero prato né animali è davvero un ritorno alla vita” - ha commentato alla Misna padre Daniele Moschetti, missionario comboniano che in questi ‘slum’ della capitale keniana vive e lavora.