East Africa Archives

POLITICS: Concern over the Health of Kenya’s New President

There is concern over the health of Kenya's new president Mwai Kibaki who was admitted to Nairobi Hospital on Sunday evening and is expected to stay there for eight to 10 days.

ECONOMY-KENYA: Donor Funding to Resume in July – IMF Official

By IPS Correspondents

Kenya's new government's hope of turning round the country's ailing economy got a major boost this week with news that donor funding could resume in July.

POLITICS-SUDAN: Peace Talks to Resume Next Week – Mediator

By IPS Correspondents

If all goes well, the third round of peace talks between the government of Sudan and rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) will open on Jan 22, according to mediator Lazaro Sumbeiywo.

POLITICS-SUDAN: Gov’t Pulls Out of the Latest Round of Peace Talks

By IPS Correspondents

The tortured road to peace in Sudan has stalled again, as the Sudanese government has refused to attend the latest round of peace talks, scheduled to open Wednesday.

HEALTH-CONGO: Typhoid Fever Linked to Fast Food

By IPS Correspondents

With little awareness of the risks of typhoid fever, residents of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, buy fast foods from makeshift lunch counters that have sprung up all over the city.

POLITICS-SOMALIA: Peace will Take Years – Mediator

By IPS Correspondents

The chief mediator in peace talks aimed at ending more than a decade of anarchy in Somalia says progress is being made, but warns that it will take years to restore order to the country.

ENERGY-UGANDA: High Tariff Drives Consumers to Charcoal

By Evelyn Kiapi

Musa Musisi, 48, sells charcoal in Wandegeya, a suburb of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Lucky for him, high electricity tariffs have driven consumers to charcoal.

POLITICS-KENYA: New Parliament Opens with Many New Faces

By IPS Correspondents

Kenya's ninth parliament opened on Thursday, with a new government, a new president and many new faces.

MEDIA-KENYA: Gov’t Stifling Election Coverage – Campaigners

By IPS Correspondents

In the run up to Kenya's Dec 27 elections, the government is coming under fire for its excessively tight control over the media.

HEALTH-UGANDA: Success Story, Fighting HIV/AIDS

By Evelyn Kiapi

About six years ago Rosemary Kityo, 31, discovered that she was HIV-positive. Her husband, Yowasi Kityo, had already succumbed to the disease, after a long illness.

POLITICS-KENYA: Presidential Candidate Comes Out Fighting

By IPS Correspondents

With just days to go until Kenya's elections, there have been concerns about leading presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki's health after being involved in a serious car accident two weeks ago.

Seeking to dispel rumours that he is unfit to hold office, the 72-year-old opposition leader Wednesday called his first press conference since the crash.

Seated under a tree in the garden of his Nairobi home, with his plastered ankle raised on a table, Kibaki said he was deeply touched that hundreds of thousands of Kenyans had turned out to welcome him home, lining the route from Nairobi airport to his house.