AfricaFlack blogs about the loss of donor money to Kenya, donors having pulled out to protest the current political situation. While only 4 percent of Kenya’s budget comes from donor air, up to 40 percent of the development budget originates abroad.

Financial Times reports on how Kenya’s instability is affected the region – including losses of up to $34 million for Uganda due to inability to transport goods shipped to Mombasa and the closing of other trade routes.

The Independent (UK) reports that Western governments accept flawed election results if the winner is an ally. (Wait, is this news??)

Makerere University to teach more local Ugandan languages, the Monitor reports.

Now more than ever, there’s an increase in USA soldiers, especially those deployed to Iraq, committing suicide or conducting acts of self harm, says the Guardian.

Rhodesian author Doris Lessing was a less than gracious acceptant of the Nobel Prize for Literature, reports a New York Times blog. (Hey, if she doesn’t want it, I have plenty of writer friends who’d be happy to accept on her behalf.)

Juba peace talks deadline, originally set for the end of this month, have been delayed until March, according to the Monitor. (Hmmm…. I guess we’ll have to wait until March to find out when the next end-date will be.)

Associated Press reports that Japan has put three convicts to death via hanging.

Distribution of mosquito nets and a new medicine, made from Chinese wormwood, have greatly reduced the numbers of people dying from Malaria in Africa, says the New York Times.

Citizen Uganda blogs about a new film on the rape epidemic in Congo. (There’s a You Tube clip, so I’m wishing my internet connection were up to the challenge.)