Full coverage: East Africa

24.06.2005 The conference will bring together people with extensive practical experience in Participatory GIS (PGIS) and community mapping in Developing Countries and First Nations.

22.06.2005 Blindness in Ethiopia results from a wide range of natural and man-made factors, and is also linked to underdevelopment and armed conflict.

16.06.2005 Two community multimedia centres in Uganda supported by UNESCO won the best dramatic program and the best participatory programming on the UNICEF Children's Broadcasting Day Awards which had attracted entries from a number of both commercial and community radios.

06.06.2005 Radio presenter/producer team Ann Mikia and Sammy Muraya from the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation's (KBC) weekly HIV/AIDS program, A Stitch in Time, played a key role in the launch of a government HIV/AIDS program among public taxi drivers.