Full Coverage: East Africa

01/31/2008 Thousands of streetchildren are caught up in Kenya's post-election violence, according to a consortium of British charities who say they are totally overwhelmed by events.
From Consortium for streetchildren

01/31/2008 News at last of Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye, who is being held in cell 10, block A01 of the secret prison camp, Eiraeiro. And with the sighting comes more details of the prison.
OneWorld Guide to Eritrea

01/30/2008 Mozambique could face a massive food crisis later in the year unless action is taken to support farmers hit by the continuing floods, an international anti-poverty charity said today.

01/30/2008 Statement by women's organisations on the post-election crisis in Kenya.
From Pambazuka news

01/30/2008 Esimerkiksi Kenian turismisektori saattaa menettää yli 100 000 työpaikkaa, virallinen sektori jopa 500 000 työpaikkaa tämän vuoden ensimmäisen puolikkaan aikana. Kaikkiaan taloudellisen menetyksen hinnaksi on arvioitu jopa 260 miljardia Kenian shillinkiä eli 3,6 miljardia Yhdysvaltain dollaria.

01/29/2008 After much speculation, the deputy leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, Vincent Otti, is confirmed dead. Observers maintain that Otti's absence will pose a serious obstacle to peace talks launched Monday between the rebel groups and the Ugandan government.

01/29/2008 With government-opposition talks organised by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan due to take place in Kenya today, an MP of the Orange Democratic Movement was shot dead and two Kenyan military helicopters opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post.
+ Paralysis as roads cut off in fresh violence

01/29/2008 Three staff members of a leading medical charity have been killed in the Somali town of Kismayo.
+ Ban Ki-moon deplores killings

01/29/2008 Levottomuuksien riski kasvaa vilpillisten vaalien jälkeen, varoittaa Lovemore Madhuku. Hän johtaa Zimbabwen oppositiovoimien valistuskampanjaa maaliskuun vaalien alla.

01/29/2008 The Zambian Supreme Court has upheld the 2004 High Court decision not to deport satirical columnist Roy Clarke, a British national permanently resident in Zambia, over a column published in the privately owned Post newspaper on first January 2004, allegedly insulting President Levy Mwanawasa.

01/29/2008 A World Bank report has applauded Uganda for embracing new technologies in her development process. The report 'Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World' examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s.

01/28/2008 Kenian maaseudulla kaivot ovat vilkkaassa käytössä ja toimivat hyvin siellä, missä kylät ovat sitoutuneet niiden ylläpitoon. Naisten rooli kaivojen ylläpitämisessä on tärkeä, sillä naiset vastaavat veden kuljettamisesta perheilleen.

01/27/2008 Another 23 Kenyans have been killed in Nakuru, bringing the death toll to 35 since violence erupted in the town two days ago.
From The Standard

01/26/2008 Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has criticised "gross and systematic human rights abuses" in Kenya and the urged the government to increase security.
From The Nation

01/26/2008 Continuano le violenze a Nakuru, capoluogo della Rift Valley dove le autorità keniane hanno imposto il coprifuoco notturno: l’agenzia Misna riporta che giovani armati appartenenti alla comunità kalenjin, che ha sostenuto il candidato sconfitto Odinga, verrebbero pagati 5000 scellini (circa 50 euro) per l’uccisione di un kikuyu, l’etnia di Kibaki. Proprio dalla zona di Nakuru ci giunge la drammatica testimonianza telefonica di don Gabriele Pipinato, direttore del Centro Saint Martin. “E la polizia? Cosa fa la polizia?” – “Sta aiutando i civili a lasciare le aree più calde per recarsi verso la Rift Valley per trovare rifugio. La situazione è per loro fuori controllo. Non fa che sparare in aria senza risultato. Da due giorni scontri e violenze tra gruppi armati di kalenjin e kikuyu hanno messo a ferro e fuoco villaggi interi. Le città di Rongai e il villaggio di Kiambogo sono stati attaccati con molte case date alle fiamme. Giovani disperati ed armati di machete e pistole distruggono ed uccidono”. (di Fabio Pipinato)

01/25/2008 Keniassa presidentti ja oppositiojohtaja ovat tavanneet toisensa ensimmäistä kertaa joulukuun kiisteltyjen vaalien jälkeen, ja sovunhieronta on alkanut ainakin virallisesti. Mutta mitä tapahtuu Nairobin kaduilla ja slummeissa, ja mitä mieltä tavalliset kansalaiset ovat johtajistaan?

01/25/2008 Sambian tavoitteena on nostaa vuoteen 2010 mennessä saapuvien matkailijoiden lukumäärä ainakin miljoonaan. Suurin osa turisteista on eteläafrikkalaisia, mutta Sambia herättää kiinnostusta myös Euroopassa ja Yhdysvalloissa.

01/25/2008 Zimbabwen tulvat ovat nousseet pahimmiksi yli sataan vuoteen ja pahentavat entisestään inflaation ja vaikean poliittisen tilanteen runteleman maan asukkaiden tilannetta. Zimbabwen lisäksi tulvista kärsivät myös Mosambik, Malawi ja Sambia.

01/24/2008 Charlie Clements, president of a human rights organization, travels to Kenya to assess the political and humanitarian crisis that has engulfed Kenya, and meets the heroes it has produced.

01/24/2008 Globally, 13 percent of maternal deaths result from abortion-related complications, but in Kenya it's as high as 40 percent -- and many women's rights advocates are drawing a direct link between this devastating reality and the effect U.S. reproductive-health policies have in other countries.