Africa/Middle East

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (04/02/2008) - Uganda is staying away from the African regional broadband infrastructure project managed by the e-Africa Commission, claiming the initiative's guidelines may prevent its national telecommunications company from investing in the project.  read more »

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (03/22/2008) Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) plans to invest about US$4 billion in upgrading its infrastructure in Africa this year in order to alleviate network congestion and increase subscribers.  read more »

LAGOS, NIGERIA (3/31/08) A federal high court in Lagos ruled Thursday that mobile operators MTN Nigeria and Celtel Nigeria must compensate subscribers for poor quality of service.  read more »

The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has called on African governments and standards bodies to abstain in the balloting, due to close Saturday, on whether a file format based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) should be an international standard.  read more »

After days of heated debate, Kenya has decided to abstain from the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) vote on OOXML.  read more »

It was August, 1993. I had just returned from a five-week trip to Zambia helping build teaching accommodation, a project which, at the time, was part of a wider Zambian government attempt to stop the academic brain drain across into Tanzania.  read more »