The political climate is growing increasingly antagonistic in Burundi, where many of today’s political parties were yesterday’s rebel groups.

A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have “recombinant” viruses that might threaten both treatment and prevention efforts.

First, let me apologize for getting back to you less promptly than the urgency of the matter at hand calls for. I do so because just like justice delayed is justice denied, I consider this late response – a response denied.

As wisdom of yore would have it, there is time for everything. For Kenya, it is without a doubt, the time to move on. Buoyed by the strong wings of hope, and powered by the sure winds of canon, Kenya promulgates the new constitution.

It’s baby Kenya! That would have been the cry of a midwife heralding the birth of a new nation, well more than 45 years ago. However, the true birth has belatedly, but pleasantly so, eventually come

Mohamed Barre Ali lives in Dadachabulla, in the northeastern Kenya area of Wajir South. Ali, an elder and chairman of the local peace committee, told IRIN how years of instability in neighbouring Somalia are affecting his village, about 10km from the border.

Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister.

Since March 2008, Beatrice Tamaska Kae has lived under a tarpaulin with her seven children in a camp after their eviction from a government forest in Trans Nzoia West district in western Kenya.

At a time when anti-establishment sentiments are high in the United States, many Americans are searching for answers in their constitution, in an effort to turn back the clock to the way things once were

There comes a time in life, when one sits down to ponder on some momentous happenings and pose the question above. At a time when Kenya has made its own brand of history, I will not be left behind by all pundits, without a word or two about this moment.

Kenya has endorsed a new constitution that seeks to unite the country, but it will take much more to ensure ethnic harmony, especially in Rift Valley region, where thousands were displaced in the election less than three years ago.

Politics is perhaps the only manufacturing plant that never shuts down for annual maintenance, and so are the observers.