Full Coverage: East Africa

31.10.2007 Nokia ja Plan kehittävät yhteistyössä kokeellista sosiaalista verkkomediaa yhdistämään kenialaisia ja tamperelaisia viidesluokkalaisia.

31.10.2007 Twice a year the Juba River overflows, flooding the surrounding Somali villages and farmlands, inciting hunger, and pushing people out of their homes. With the help of a Kenyan engineer and a disaster relief organization, however, villagers have learned to replace their ineffective sand bags with clay-based levees.

31.10.2007 PARIS, October 30 (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in east Africa.

31.10.2007 As the Kenya Human Rights Commission prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained in detention camps by survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence, Mukoma Wa Ngugi unravels the colonial myths of Christianisation and civilisation and exposes the reality of torture, murder, slavery, landlessness, dehumanisation and internment.
From: Pambazuka News

25.10.2007 Parliamentarians from 11 East African countries have formed a peace team that "intend[s] to meet all warring parties in the region," beginning with those in Darfur.
From: New Times (Kigali)

24.10.2007 Malawin hallitus arvioi muutama vuosi sitten, että maan ruokaturvan takaaminen ei onnistu Maailmanpankin ehdottamilla keinoilla. Päätös uhmata pankin lainaehtoja on osoittautunut oikeaksi, kertoo Collins Magalasi Malawin Action Aidista.

24.10.2007 Idris Osman, the head of the World Food Programme's office in Mogadishu, was freed yesterday after a week's detention.
From: World Food Programme

23.10.2007 Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano is the winner of the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which is worth $5 million over 10 years, $200,000 annually for life thereafter, and up to $200,000 a year for 10 years towards the winner's public interest activities and good causes.
From Mo Ibrahim Foundation

19.10.2007 More fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu left at least three people dead Thursday. Violence has become a part of the daily routine in the city as 129 civilians have been killed in the last month alone.

19.10.2007 Vuosi sitten Tansaniassa oli yksi mediatalo, jolla oli toimiva verkkopalvelu. Nyt jo toistakymmentä sanomalehteä julkaisee juttunsa internetissä.

18.10.2007 Thirteen years after their own holocaust, a company of actors from Rwanda come to London to perform a play about Auschwitz.

18.10.2007 Zimbabwelaisilla naisilla on maanmiehiinsä verrattuna keskimäärin 1,35-kertainen riski saada hiv-tartunta. Syitä tähän ovat ennen muuta naisiin kohdistuva väkivalta ja seksiin pakottaminen, jotka sekä miehet että naiset usein hyväksyvät osaksi avioliittoa.

18.10.2007 Gender inequalities and a widespread acceptance of sexual violence among couples in Zimbabwe are contributing to the exacerbation of the HIV/AIDS crisis, writes Masimba Biriwasha.

18.10.2007 Financial grants from an organization that works to alleviate global poverty is allowing Zimbabwean schools to waive mandatory tuition fees for vulnerable children such as orphans, who comprise one third of the country's youth population and are least likely to attend school.

18.10.2007 The World Food Programme suspended food distribution in Mogadishu after Somali government forces invaded the UN compound yesterday and abducted the local head of the agency in a move immediately condemned by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. And in Darfur, three WFP truck drivers were shot dead in the past week.

16.10.2007 Osallistu Planin koulukampanjaan ja olet rakentamassa kehitysmaiden lapsille ja heidän yhteisöilleen tasa-arvoisempaa tulevaisuutta.

11.10.2007

11.10.2007 The Kenyan ISP sector is consolidating, with many companies buying up their competitors and new foreign owners entering the market. Pressure on margins from the switch to DSL broadband has been one of the key drivers of consolidation.

10.10.2007 The government of Uganda inaugurated a new plant this weekend to produce anti-retroviral and anti-malarial medicines.
From: New Vision (Uganda)

10.10.2007 Jätevuoret Sambian pääkaupungin köyhissä kaupunginosissa ja roskaiset kadut kaikissa maan kaupungeissa paljastavat, että Sambialla on suuria haasteita ympäristönsuojelussa, kirjoittaa Clive Chibule.