Full Coverage: East Africa

02/29/2008 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.

02/28/2008 Global warming, swelling populations, and the increasing accessibility of arms are making water scarcity a growing source of conflict in Ethiopia and Kenya.

02/27/2008 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

02/27/2008 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

02/26/2008 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

02/26/2008 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.

02/26/2008 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.

02/25/2008 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.

02/25/2008 Ugandan sisällissota on vihdoin päättymässä rauhansopimukseen, kun Ugandan hallitus ja Lord's Resistance Armyn kapinalliset pääsivät sopimukseen pysyvästä tulitauosta. Sisällissota on jatkunut Pohjois-Ugandassa vuodesta 1986.

02/23/2008 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

02/22/2008 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."

02/22/2008 Tansanian pääministeriksi nimitetty Mizengo Peter Pinda on politiikassa vielä melko tuntematon hahmo, vaikka hän onkin pitkän linjan byrokraatti ja lakimies. Pindalla on tiiviit yhteydet maan poliittiseen eliittiin, ja häntä pidetään luotettavana johtajana.

02/21/2008 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.

02/21/2008 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.

02/21/2008 The Uganda government has struck a deal with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army about where their leaders will be tried.

02/21/2008 Ugandan talouden kasvu on vahvaa, mutta nopea väestönkasvu uhkaa vesittää orastavan kehityksen. Ugandan väestö kasvaa 3,5 prosentin vuosivauhdilla, kolmanneksi nopeimmin maailmassa.

02/20/2008 Tansanialaiseen Kipindimbin kylään rakennetaan klinikkaa. Sen rakentaminen oli oli kyläläisten oma päätös ja rakentaminen toteutetaan yhteistyössä Tanganjikan kristillisen pakolaisavun kanssa. Oman klinikan valmistuttua sairaita tarvitse viedä enää kilometrien päähän naapurikylään.

02/19/2008 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.

02/18/2008 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.

02/18/2008 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.