Most Active Stories: East Africa

  1. Africa: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning

    The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.

  2. Tanzania: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off

    The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.

  3. Kenya: Africa's Biggest Wind Farm Project Runs Into Stormy Weather

    Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the risks in the private-sector funded project.

  4. Kenya: How President and PM Will Share Power

    Power in Kenya will be divided between a president and a prime minister under the new constitution. The draft, unlike the current law, is clear on the authority of the President and the PM.

  5. Tanzania: Travellers to Contribute Sh920 Each to Fund Air Safety Agency

    Air passengers in East Africa will each be levied $0.7 (about Sh920) to support the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (Cassoa) finance ministers of the EAC member states approve the proposal.

  6. Kenya: Weapons Seized From Pirates Displayed in Court

    Weapons handed over to Kenyan authorities when 17 suspected Somali pirates were brought into the country were identified in court on Tuesday.

  7. Uganda: MAK Invents Traffic Sign Detection Software

    As road accidents continue to claim lives in big numbers, a researcher at Makerere University has taken up the challenge by developing a programme that automatically detects traffic signs in an image, at a distance of about 100 meters.

  8. Uganda: 800 Denounce Religious Cult in Kibaale

    A total of 821 followers of the Faith of Unity, a religious cult, have denounced their sect and crossed to the Anglican Church since the beginning of this year.

  9. DR Congo, Sudan Eager to Join EAC

    East African Community's neighbours, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Sudan have shown interest in joining the five-nation grouping.

  10. Kenya: First Woman MP Was a Gender Rights Activist and Trail-Blazer

    Her journey to the all-male Kenyan Parliament, then known as Legco, started on February 19, 1961, at Ofafa estate in Nairobi.

  11. Somalia: Piracy Off Coast Not Only Criminal, But Very Successful, Security Council Hears

    Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office there told the Security Council today.

  12. Uganda: Museveni Commends Pastor Kakande Over Food Project

    PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has commended Pastor Samuel Kakande for preaching the gospel and praying for the sick.

  13. Kenya: Piracy Attacks on Grain Vessels Hit Flour Production

    A wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.

  14. Uganda: 'Samona' Vs Walukagga - the War Behind the Music Lyrics

    ON Monday this week, Kadongo Kamu singer, Mathias walukagga was sent to Luzira prison over cases filed against him by businessman, Ssalongo Kasawuli, popularly known as 'Samona' the proprietor of the company that makes Samona products.

  15. Uganda: Baha'i Faith is On Trial in Iran

    Last October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.


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