Full Coverage: East Africa

30.06.2005 On grounds that he promoted hatred, genocide, and crimes against humanity, a Canadian court voted unanimously to expel Leon Mugesera, forcing him to stand trial in Rwanda. Jean de Dieu Mucyo, Rwanda's chief prosecutor, said the decision was a major step in efforts to deport others implicated in the genocide that killed nearly a million people.

29.06.2005 In most African societies, children are supposed to be seen not heard. On Friday, June 24, at Eroet Primary School grounds, Soroti district, Eastern Uganda, things were different. Children talked their hearts out as adults in various ranks sat and listened, often uncomfortably.

29.06.2005 Police in Zambia have threatened to charge radio host and commentator Anthony Mukwita with sedition after a June 10 broadcast on privately owned Radio Phoenix in which he read an anonymous fax criticizing the government.

29.06.2005 The government is under mounting pressure to permit more than 100 Zimbabwean failed asylum seekers to stay in the UK.

29.06.2005 Refugees in Uganda's capital, Kampala, numbering between 10,000 to 15,000, find themselves trapped by government policy. If they remain in the capital they receive no assistance or protection from the government. If they move to rural resettlement camps they will receive aid, but have less of a chance to find work and fend for themselves.

27.06.2005 On Friday, special representative Aldo Ajello said the EU may support military action against Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo if they refuse to disarm and return home. Despite a declaration in March, where the rebels agreed to end the war against Rwanda, they have shown no commitment to return freely.

27.06.2005 Six months after the tsunami's waves swept the coasts of South East Asia and East Africa, Lutheran World Relief provides a glimpse of how those who survived the deadly seaquake are piecing their lives back together, with the help of generous donations from around the world.

27.06.2005 Ninety-seven Zimbabwean asylum seekers are refusing food and water in protest over the UK government’s plans to send them home despite the potential dangers. The Church of England has also demanded a stop to ongoing deportations.

24.06.2005 As an unprecedented coalition of civil society organisations appeals to the UN to investigate recent events in Zimbabwe, the outspoken Archbishop of Bulawayo has won an international humanitarian award. As well as criticising Robert Mugabe, Archbishop Pius Ncube has called on the British government to be more tolerant of asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe.

24.06.2005 Wangari Maathai, founder of the famous Greenbelt Movement and African Nobel Laureate, lay her wisdom upon the U.S. NGO community recently. "Unless we manage resources more equitably, we won’t have peace. To do that there has to be democratic space," she told a Washington, D.C. gathering.

24.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 24 (OneWorld) - Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004's Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first African woman bestowed the prestigious award, told representatives from non-governmental organizations here recently that a stronger commitment to environmental conservation can help build peace and greater prosperity in Africa.

24.06.2005 The conference will bring together people with extensive practical experience in Participatory GIS (PGIS) and community mapping in Developing Countries and First Nations.

22.06.2005 Zimbabwe police have extended a demolition campaign targeting the homes and livelihoods of the urban poor to the vegetable gardens they rely on for food, saying the crops planted on vacant lots are damaging the environment.

22.06.2005 Etiopiaa uhkaa jälleen kuivuuskausi ja ihmiset saattavat joutua myymään työkalujaan, eli käytännössä luopumaan elinkeinostaan turvatakseen ruuansaannin. Tämä johtaisi köyhyyteen, josta nouseminen veisi vuosia. Maailman elintarvikeohjelma WFP tarjoaa vakuutusta ratkaisuksi vastaaviin tilanteisiin. Avustusjärjestöt voisivat maksaa vakuutusmaksut ja turvata elinkeinon säilymisen tarvittaessa.

22.06.2005 Blindness in Ethiopia results from a wide range of natural and man-made factors, and is also linked to underdevelopment and armed conflict.

17.06.2005 On 14 June 2005, Lusaka police questioned Anthony Mukwita, a Radio Phoenix "Let the People Talk" programme host, over a fax anonymously sent, which he had read on air during the 10 June edition of the programme. The fax accused the government of condoning corruption and warned that the country might slip into anarchy as a result.

16.06.2005 Two community multimedia centres in Uganda supported by UNESCO won the best dramatic program and the best participatory programming on the UNICEF Children's Broadcasting Day Awards which had attracted entries from a number of both commercial and community radios.

16.06.2005 The argument that "there is a tsunami every day in Africa" has influenced The Hunter Foundation to redirect £1 million earmarked for tsunami relief to a project to help women and children in a camp for displaced persons in northern Uganda.

15.06.2005 Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, has just returned from a two-week fact-finding mission in Burundi. His first-hand report tells of the return of thousands of refugees to a homeland struggling to transcend the turmoil of its recent past. He also tells how you can help.

14.06.2005 Allo staff medico dell’organizzazione umanitaria Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) è stato negato l’accesso a Songore, il campo profughi di 7.000 ruandesi che fuggirono verso il Burundi ai primi di maggio. La clinica di MSF all’interno del campo è ora sorvegliata dai militari dell’esercito burundese e lo staff medico non può entrare nei propri locali, privando così la restante popolazione delle cure mediche. Prima che a MSF fosse negato l’accesso a Songore, l’organizzazione effettuava oltre un centinaio di consultazioni al giorno.