Full Coverage: East Africa
December 2007
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12/31/2007
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on Sunday for a second and final term as riots and protests erupted in parts of the country over the election results.
Read moreFrom Daily Nation * OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] Image: President Mwai Kibaki © UN Millennium Project
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12/30/2007
Kenya's Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the 2007 polls and he was immediately sworn in at State House gardens to serve a second term.
Read moreFrom The Standard + OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] Image: President Mwai Kibaki © UN Millennium Project
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12/30/2007
Desperation, mutual suspicion, mistrust and anxiety provoked by a delay in announcing the winner of Kenya's presidential vote puts the country on the threshold of crisis.
Read moreFrom The Standard * OneWorld Guide to Kenya Related: [Kenya] |
12/28/2007
The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.
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12/27/2007
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders.
Read moreFrom UN News From: United Nations Related: [Somalia] |
12/27/2007
The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.
Read moreFrom: Actionaid International Nigeria Related: [Ethiopia] Image: Daniel Bekele, ActionAid
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12/24/2007
Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.
Read moreFrom: Bay Area International Development Organizations Related: [Ethiopia] Image: Daniel Bekele, ActionAid
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12/21/2007
Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning…Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Kenya] [Social Exclusion] [Gender] [Politics] [Democracy] [Justice and Crime] Image: © Internews Network, Inc.
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12/21/2007
A seguito di una recente visita in Rwanda per partecipare all’assemblea paritetica Ue-Paesi dell’area Africa-Caraibi-Pacifico (Acp), per discutere di rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Acp, l’europarlamentare Vittorio Agnoletto ci ha inviato la seguente riflessione che volentieri pubblichiamo. L’europarlamentare affronta tre nodi rilevanti nell’attuale vicenda sociale ruandese: l’istituzione dal 2005 dei tribunali Gacaca a cui spetta il compito di rivelare la verità sul genocidio, sradicare la cultura dell’impunità, rinforzare l’unità e la riconciliazione dei ruandesi. Per quanto riguarda la lotta all’Aids, il sistema ruandese, grazie ai contributi stanziati dal Fondo Globale e attraverso il servizio sanitario con ambulatori nei villaggi riesce a fornire farmaci antiretrovirali per il 50% di coloro che ne avrebbero necessità. Ma gli attuali accordi che l’Unione Europea intende imporre ai Paesi Acp delineano “una catastrofe”: in un solo anno si stima che il Rwanda perderà oltre 17 milioni di dollari. di Vittorio Agnoletto
Read moreRelated: [Rwanda] [Development] [Trade] [HIV/AIDS] [Human Rights] [Civil Society] [Conflict Resolution] |
12/21/2007
Three Somali women working at an international emergency relief organization in this eastern African country reflect on gender equality and education in the Horn of Africa.
Read moreFrom: Mercy Corps Related: [Somalia] |
12/21/2007
Pohjois-Ugandaa uhkaa nälänhätä, varoittavat asiantuntijat paikallisen New Vision -lehden mukaan. Ruoan puute johtuu tulvista ja pian uhkaavasta kuivuudesta.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [Uganda] [Food] Image: © New Internationalist
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12/19/2007
A Zambian, HIV-positive preacher works to improve HIV/AIDS education and treatment in the face of discrimination and social stigma.
Read moreFrom: Centre for Development and Population Activities Related: [Zambia] |
12/19/2007
On December 14 2007, the Zimbabwean government published proposed amendments to the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA).
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12/18/2007
An international organization working on food security will provide Ethiopia with the world's first 'humanitarian' insurance and contingency plan to cover 6.7 million people, in case there is a drought comparable to the one that hit the Horn of Africa country in 2002-2003.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Ethiopia] Image: Relief workers distribute food in Ethiopia. © Crispin Hughes / Oxfam Great Britain
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12/17/2007
"The SADC [South African Development Community] countries need to ratchet up their pressure [on Zimbabwe], and they need to do it not just behind doors but openly so that world public opinion can be mobilised behind African voices, behind African leadership," said the secretary-general of human rights organization, after attending a meeting in Cape Town last week to launch a new global campaign for human rights.
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [Zimbabwe] [Southern Africa] Image: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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12/17/2007
Monen zimbabwelaisen elanto on nykyään kiinni salakuljetuksesta: Sambiaan ja Botswanaan virtaa esimerkiksi alkoholia – ja yhä useammin myös ihmisiä.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Zimbabwe] [Poverty] [Trade] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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