POLITICS-UGANDA: Women Join the Peace Wagon, As Rebels Wreak Havoc

Rosemary Nyeko is a bitter woman. She remembers how rebels ruined her life when they burned her house in northern Uganda last year.

HEALTH-AFRICA: Initiative to Fight AIDS From All Fronts

The silence in the room is chilling as everybody pays attention to an AIDS verse by children from a Nairobi-based institution caring for AIDS orphans.

HEALTH: A New AIDS Wave Washing Over Africa, Devastating Families

They are like babies now, says Prudence Mabele about the people living with AIDS she cares for as a volunteer in South Africa. "Some wear nappies; I need to wash and feed them."

POLITICS: Ethiopia, Eritrea Under International Pressure to Normalise Ties

International pressure is mounting on Ethiopia and Eritrea to normalise ties, three years after the end of a bloody war, following the UN Security Council's renewal of the six-month mandate of its peacekeeping mission in both countries.

TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Women Find Reason for Optimism in Internet Usage

Slowly, but effectively, the Internet is empowering women in Africa to follow events as they have never witnessed before. The latest case in point is the women in Somalia who have been following their country's peace talks in neighbouring Kenya via Internet usage.

POLITICS-SOMALIA: Hope for Peace, as Delegates Adopt Charter

If all goes well, Somalia may soon realise peace following adoption of a Transitional Federal Charter by delegates attending peace talks aimed at ending a long-standing conflict in that country.

RIGHTS-KENYA: Former Freedom Fighters to Sue Britain for Compensation

Forty-nine years after the death of his wife, General Kibira Gatu is still a bitter man, thanks to the atrocities committed during the British colonial era.

RIGHTS: Abortion Debate Splits Kenya

Lorna Wambui (not her real name) may be scarred for life following a "back street" abortion that she had nine years ago.

HEALTH-ETHIOPIA: AIDS Fight Hindered by Stigma, Discrimination, Say NGOs

Miss Ethiopia has joined hands with non-governmental organisations (NGOS), which are based in the capital Addis Ababa, in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Internet Creates a New Class of Users

Even critics of massive spending on computer and Internet technology in Africa, at what they fear is at the expense of poverty alleviation efforts, are conceding that so-called "New Media" are helping Africans economically.

TRADE: Kenya Woos Investors

For years investors boycotted Kenya and went to do business next door in Uganda and Tanzania.

RIGHTS-AFRICA: Despite ‘Peace’, Children Still Making War in DRC

Although peace exits on paper in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the reality of war continues to plague its children, says a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI).

RIGHTS-KENYA: Gov’t Urged to End the Culture of Impunity

Peter Makori knows the smell of a Kenyan prison which has been his home for the past two months.

CULTURE-NIGERIA: ‘Indecent’ Dressing Banned on the Campus

Sexual harassment of female students in Nigeria has often been blamed on randy lecturers, but the university authorities are fighting back.

POLITICS-SUDAN: Crucial Talks to End Africa’s Longest War

International pressure is mounting on the government of Sudan and the main rebel movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), to make peace or risk sanctions.

KENYA – POLITICS: Serious Jostling For Vice Presidency Yet To Emerge

Kenya's political theatre has been thrown into disarray, following the death of Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa on August 23.

POLITICS: ‘Democratic’ Rwanda Looks Set to Join Regional Bloc

Rwanda's first multi-party elections, which have been described as free and fair, may pave way for the central African country to join the East African Community bloc, according to a government official. The official, Seth Kamanzi, who is Rwanda's ambassador to Kenya, told IPS that "the delay in Rwanda becoming a part of the bloc is because it was considered undemocratic".

ENVIRONMENT-AFRICA: Endangered Wild Dogs Caught in Poaching Stampede

They hunt in family groups over great distances, chasing mostly impala, kudu and duiker until the prey tires and can be caught.

RIGHTS-UGANDA: Domestic Violence linked to HIV/AIDS

In a society where women are still valued as property, and do not have equal decision-making powers and status within the family, the existence of rape and brutal attacks on them by their spouses has become a stimulant for HIV/AIDS infections.

ENVIRONMENT-AFRICA: Millions of Women Still Trek Farther for Water

The link between environmental degradation and worsening poverty levels in African nations has left the realm of anecdotal evidence and now has the solidity of hard fact, thanks to data collected in a new Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

POLITICS: All Flags at Half-Mast, as Kenya Mourns Vice-President

A sombre mood has engulfed Kenya following a two-week mourning period declared for the late vice-president Michael Wamalwa who died in a London hospital on Aug. 23.