Full coverage: East Africa

17.01.2006 The Government wants views on whether media ownership should be controlled.

17.01.2006 Kenya plans to position itself as one of the world's leading outsourcing hubs for companies in North America and Europe looking to cut costs in their business processes.

13.01.2006 The Herald Journal on Friday,January 06, 2006 carried an article titled "Bridging a medical gap". The article is about how Dr. Eddie Loo, an instructional designer and distance education professor from Utah State University (USU) is helping to bridge the knowledge gap that exists in the African country of Rwanda. Dr. Eddie Loo is the recipient of the 2005 Innovative Practices Award.

10.01.2006 Community radio stations have made a difference in the lives of rural Mozambicans by expanding access to information and communicating health and life skills messages. But, given their relience on donor funding, some analysts question whether they are a sustainable development tool.

09.01.2006 The Addis Ababa University Signed On Saturday Agreements With Two Business Consortiums for the Third Phase Aau Net expansion.

05.01.2006 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd (TTCL) and Zanzibar Telecommunications Ltd (Zantel) will soon start using the Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, which is superior to the global system for mobile communications (GSM).

04.01.2006 The Ugandan Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry (MTTI) and its affiliated institutions met in a roundtable workshop at Jinja from 1 to 3 December 2005. The affiliated institutions are: namely Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB), Management Training & Advisory Centre (MTAC), Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), Uganda Commodity Exchange (UCE), Uganda Wild Life Education Centre (UWEC) and Uganda Wild Life Authority (UWA).

04.01.2006 On December 8, 2005, dot-EDU set up a low-cost, low-energy using lab in rural Uganda that may be just the solution for places where electrical problems (surges, brief cuts, and brownouts) tend to damage ICT equipment.