Full Coverage: East Africa

31.08.2007 Kansainvälinen apu on lievittänyt Pohjois-Somaliassa riehunutta koleraepidemiaa. Kansainvälisen Solidaarisuussäätiön ripeä reagointi auttoi säästämään monia ihmishenkiä, ja avusta hyötyi yli 30 000 ihmistä Somalimaassa.

31.08.2007 The Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association (ZISPA) says it is struggling to raise funds to buy intercepting equipment currently pegged at US$1 million each in a fresh huddle for the Harare authorities.

31.08.2007 THE East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a project to wire up several African countries with high-speed optical fibre, is not living up to its name. The plan, hatched in 2003, was simple enough: lay an 9,900km (6,200-mile) submarine cable along the east coast of the continent, from Sudan to South Africa, touching at several points along the way, and then link it up with the rest of the world. But the scheme has become entangled in disagreements between operators and governments over its business model.

31.08.2007 It's time for Kenya's women to send more women to parliament, says Florence Machio, noting that a female minister of health has done more for women in the past four years than her male predecessors ever did. But in Kenya, electing women has proven an uphill battle.

29.08.2007 Sambialaiset poliisit pidättivät zimbabwelaisen eteläisen Afrikan kehityskomitean (SADC) kansalaisjärjestöfoorumiin osallistuneen Tapera Kapuyan 16. elokuuta. Kapuya pidätettiin, kun hän kantoi Zimbabwen presidenttiä arvostelevaa julistetta.

29.08.2007 Zimbabwean lawyers who attended the just ended Southern African Development Committee (SADC) Civil Society Forum found themselves busy as they came to the rescue of Tapera Kapuya the co-ordinator of the National Constitutional Assembly’s South African office who had been detained by Zambia authorities.

28.08.2007 The environmentally sustainable practice of planting shrubs and tree seedlings throughout crop fields is helping rural farmers from central Kenya raise productivity and reap meaningful profits.

24.08.2007 Suomeen syyskuussa saapuvan kätilö Ugaso Jaman mukaan 98 prosenttia naisista on ympärileikattu Somalimaassa, jossa silpomista ei kielletä lailla. Jama on onnistunut kyseenalaistamaan vahingollisen kulttuuriperinteen, koska osaa ammattimaisesti perustella mielipiteensä ja tuntee yhteisön ajattelutavat.

23.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.

22.08.2007 Medici senza Frontiere (Msf) ha lanciato un appello a tutte le parti in conflitto affinché sia permesso l'accesso alle cure per i profughi di Mogadiscio e libertà di movimento per lo staff medico. "Con bombardamenti e sparatorie che si ripetono ormai quasi ogni giorno a Mogadiscio, le persone che avrebbero bisogno di assistenza medica hanno troppa paura per lasciare le loro case, il personale medico sta abbandonando la città e gli ospedali sono chiusi o appena funzionanti" - ha detto Christophe Fournier, Presidente internazionale di Msf. Ieri il Consiglio di sicurezza dell'Onu ha approvato all'unanimità la proroga per sei mesi della missione guidata dall'Unione africana in Somalia, ma dopo gli scontri frontali dei mesi scorsi, Mogadiscio è tornata nelle ultime settimane a essere teatro di quotidiani attacchi ed episodi di guerriglia condotti da gruppi antigovernativi.

22.08.2007 Award-winning Zimbabwean photo-journalist Tsvangirai Mukwazhi was summoned to appear before the state-controlled Media and Information Commission (MIC) to answer to alleged charges of 'deceiving' the licensing authority in terms of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).

21.08.2007 Derfu on yksi yhdysvaltalaisen professori Jeffrey Sachsin käynnistämän vuosituhatkylähankkeen tutkimuskylistä. Vuosituhathanke käynnistyi Dertussa yhdeksän kuukautta sitten. Sinä aikana Dertun kylä on ottanut edistysaskeleita. Terveydenhuolto on kohentunut, hyttysverkot ovat vähentäneet malaria-tapauksia ja kyläläiset ovat oppineet kasvattamaan ja varastoimaan heinää.

21.08.2007 Access to medical care and help for civilians and displaced people in and around Mogadishu has decreased alarmingly, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

20.08.2007 The seminar was a conclusion to the online discussion on policy implementation strategies that was conducted for two months from May to June, 2007. A report on the online discussion was done by the online moderator, Mr. Wamupu Noyoo and was circulated to invited participants prior to the seminar

20.08.2007 Arusha has just become the first non-capital urban center in East and Central Africa to have its own Internet Exchange Point, a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect to each other and exchange local traffic between their networks by means of mutual peering agreements.

20.08.2007 Two civil society activists remain in prison in Addis Ababa despite the release of 31 opposition supporters last week.

20.08.2007 David followed the routine practiced by thousands of homeless children in Nairobi every day. He took out a handkerchief, dipped it into a bottle of paint thinner, put it to his nose and inhaled deeply. Asked what he was doing, David replied: “Dinner.”

20.08.2007 Viidessä vuodessa Kenia on kyennyt vähentämään alle viisivuotiaiden lasten kuolleisuutta malariaan 44 prosentilla. Maan hallitus on jakanut ilmaiseksi hyönteismyrkyillä käsiteltyjä suojaverkkoja suuressa tartuntavaarassa oleville, lähinnä lapsille ja raskaana oleville naisille.

17.08.2007 Hundreds of Kenyan journalists in Nairobi marched silently with their mouths gagged to protest a bill they say would restrict press freedom.

16.08.2007 Joulukuun presidentin- ja eduskuntavaalit kuumentavat poliittista ilmapiiriä Keniassa. Mielipidetiedustelujen mukaan nykyinen presidentti Mwai Kibaki saisi 45 prosentin kannatuksen. Oppositio ei ole kyennyt sopimaan yhteisestä pääehdokkaasta, mikä heikentää sen mahdollisuuksia. Eduskuntantaan valitaan 210 kansanedustajaa ja rekisteröityneitä puolueita on 250.