The technological advances in computing and other forms of telecommunication have for long been touted as the "enablers" we need to create wealth.

A toll-free mobile service being launched in selected remote areas in Africa promises to save lives by connecting people with emergency medical cases to health personnel.

Tenants who lost their property in the Tabata demolitions, and are not part of the evictees government recently compensated, are now demanding Sh5 million each.

While the Mozambican economy has shown "impressive growth" in recent years, it remains driven mainly by aid inflows, and mega-projects that provide little in the way of direct employment or tax revenue.

SAMSON MWENDA, A FARMER from Namwala in Zambia's Southern Province, recalls with bitterness the massive floods of the 2007/2008 rainy season and the harsh consequences they had for his life.

Conservationists say that the offer by Indian industrial giant Tata Chemicals to move a proposed soda-ash plant 35 kilometres away from Lake Natron in northern Tanzania will still devastate flamingo numbers on the lake.

The Tanzania government is reviewing two huge infrastructure management contracts that formed key planks of its privatisation programme.

The Nile Bridge near Owen Falls in the eastern Uganda town of Jinja is so badly cracked, it's about to collapse.

THE Makerere University Business School (MUBS) council has not taken a decision to terminate an information and communications technology tender with SocketWorks.

Doctors Report Esclation of Violence - The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights have released a report expressing deep concern over the escalating cases of organised violence and torture and the increasing intimidation of medical personnel. [All Africa : Zimbabwe]

War Vets Continue to Target Homes of Election Observers - The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) report that there is continued targeting of their accredited observers, in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland East. [All Africa : Zimbabwe]

CAIRO Wednesday, February 06, 2008 (IRIN) - This video short looks at how up to a million poor people have made one of the biggest burial grounds in Egypt their home. Dubbed ‘the City of the Dead’ and located on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo, many of the families who live there migrated from rural areas in search of work.

JAKARTA Tuesday, February 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Tanjung Priok District, where the port is located in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is said to have three suns above it instead of one because of its extreme heat in an already hot city. Aside from the climate, the district is also known for its high levels of crime, especially drug dealing.

DAKAR/KANO/NDJAMENA Tuesday, February 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Refugees fleeing the Chadian capital N’djamena are still swamping border towns in Cameroon and thousands have started queuing at Nigerian border posts, officials and refugees told IRIN.

KANO Monday, February 04, 2008 (IRIN) - A violent clash between a Muslim mob and the police over a woman accused of blaspheming the prophet Mohammed in the north-central Nigeria state of Bauchi left at least one person dead and five seriously injured.

GOZ BEIDA Monday, February 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Darfur’s refugees came to Chad seeking safety and security but as armed rebels sweep across the country, according to Chad’s government with the backing of Sudan, some refugees say they fear Sudan is reaching out to touch them there too.

LUSAKA Monday, February 04, 2008 (IRIN) - The reason why Zambia's urban poor have had to wade through ankle-deep water for weeks on end is as much down to human error as the torrential rain that has hammered the country: in a word, drainage.

KATHMANDU Sunday, February 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Punita Chaudhary was barely eight when her impoverished parents sold her for US$50 to a local middleman who worked as an agent finding domestic servants for families in Kathmandu and other Nepalese cities.

PORT HARCOURT Friday, February 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Tiophelis spends his days running. He won't say exactly where, but, like hundreds of other boys and men in the creeks of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, he is constantly on the move for fear of attacks by the Nigerian military.

JOHANNESBURG Friday, February 01, 2008 (IRIN) - A truck packed with 40 children was intercepted in the central Mozambican province of Manica this week, sparking concern over increased child trafficking and the urgent need for effective legislation to address the problem.