This article from Wired explores new concerns around process for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Three years ago I downloaded a program that would make my desktop PC part of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. Distributed computing has come a long way since then. This special feature provides links to excellent resources on the topic, including projects like medical research around cancer and AIDS.

Zooknic Internet Intelligence is a collection of interesting facts and figures about Internet usage and trends. The User Maps section shows the geography of Internet users with color-coded maps; each country's share of the world's Internet users and the percentage of the country's population online are given. There is also a lot of data on domain names (i.e., .com, .org, .edu), such as worldwide totals, domain name geography, and top domain name holders. [From the NSDL Scout Report for Math. Engineering and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2002]

In this issue of News Update, read about cyber cafe rate hikes in Kenya, GSM news in Egypt and new appointments at Africa Online.

Slashdot features discussion and intersting links to this article about the Electronic Frontier Foundation's press release regarding legal battles at ICANN.

This article from Jeffrey Harrow summarises the state of current wireless technology and explains what the various acronyms and terminolgies mean. Wireless is becoming more and more significant in Africa.

Reporters Without Borders(Reporters sans frontiers -RSF) has expressed its great concern to the Rwandan government about the murder of a local journalist in the capital, Kigali, and called for a speedy and impartial enquiry.

Zimbabwe's official government gazette announced on 15 March that the controversial media law, the "Freedom of Information and Right to Privacy Bill", has been signed into law by President Mugabe.

The prosecution in the so-called "Media Trial" today produced news articles before judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to prove that genocide suspect Ferdinand Nahimana was a presidential advisor based in Gisenyi Province in July 1994.

THE governments of Sudan and Uganda are starting journalists' exchange programmes as a way of getting news with an African perspective rather than the negative portrayal by the Western media.

POPULAR Radio Zimbabwe presenter Brenda Moyo was struck off the station’s duty roster after playing two controversial songs.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has sued a Paris-based African Journalist-author Charles Onana in a French High Court for defamation following his publication of a book entitled, "Les Secrets Du Génocide Rwandais- Enquête Sur Les Mystères D'un Président" - (The Secrets of the Rwanda Genocide- Investigation on the Mysteries of a President), which points an accusing finger at the Rwandan leader as the principle suspect Number One in the Plane Crash which led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Moses Oguti, the detained editor-in-chief of Botswana based magazine "Trans Kalahari", has been transferred to Harare Central Prison, in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Oguti is accused of entering Zimbabwe illegally and misrepresenting information to the police.

THE rand tumbled almost 3% Wednesday on the news that President Robert Mugabe had won Zimbabwe's presidential election.

The South Africa Observer Mission to Zimbabwe has not delivered a pronouncement pleasing to the diplomatic and media contingents in the country. Grey-haired mission head Sam Motsuenyane sat stunned and flustered as journalists jeered and diplomats walked out after his endorsement of Zimbabwe's poll on Tuesday.

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The registrars of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY) have said they are determined to make every effort possible to prevent abuses of the legal aid system for the two tribunals.

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)has formally launched it’s new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Progamme Guidelines.

Britain and other western countries were left frustrated and impotent yesterday after Robert Mugabe formally declared that he had overwhelmingly won Zimbabwe's presidential election.