The US Agency for International Development (USAID said on Thursday it was suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its donations were being diverted from people in need. A spokesperson said in a statement that USAID had determined, in coordination with […]

Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s Movement for the Democratic Alternative (MADEM-G15 has lost out on a crucial parliamentary polls in the country, the latest data from Sunday’s legislative elections showed. According to the country’s National Electoral Commission (CNE, the […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has contracted Covid-19 after one of three tests he took on Wednesday turned positive for the coronavirus. Speaking during the State of The Nation address on June 7 at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, the President said […]

A top United Nations official on Wednesday said, during a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, that peacekeepers should withdraw from the conflict-torn country “as quickly as possible” yet responsibly. Addressing reporters in the capital Kinshasa, UN under-secretary-general […]

Pope Francis will undergo an operation for a painful abdominal hernia on Wednesday, reviving concerns over the 86-year-old’s increasingly fragile health. Francis was admitted mid-morning to the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he is expected to stay for several days. […]

A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. Police said they arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old […]

Judges at a UN war crimes court ruled that elderly Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga is unfit to stand trial but said slimmed-down legal proceedings in his case can continue, in a decision published on Wednesday. The former businessman and […]

In El Geneina Teaching Hospital, MSF managed the paediatric and nutrition inpatient departments, infection prevention control measures, and water and sanitation services. Over the years, we witnessed a steady stream of patients coming not just from El Geneina city and […]

Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested 11 protesters during a march in Nairobi on Tuesday against a new finance bill that critics say will pile more economic hardship on ordinary people, AFP journalists said. The proposed legislation calls for […]

Sierra Leone and Algeria have been elected to United Nations Security Council (UNSC, winning a term of two years each to represent Africa on the UN’s most powerful organ. The two countries were voted for at the UN General Assembly […]

Ugandan soldiers hid for six days before being rescued after Al Shabaab militants overran their base, a spokesperson for the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF told VOA Somali. Brigadier General Felix Kulaigye said the four soldiers including a lieutenant, survived […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to boost cooperation Tuesday after an Egyptian policeman shot dead three Israeli soldiers before being killed, officials said. “Sisi received a telephone call from Netanyahu about Saturday’s deadly […]

Prince Harry is on Tuesday expected to take the witness stand in a London court as part of claims against a British tabloid publisher, the latest in his legal battles with the press. King Charles III’s younger son will become […]

Regional leaders have welcomed the Southern Africa Development Cooperation (SADC move to deploy troops to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, providing Kinshasa with a potential plan B against rebel groups. Read:EACRF struggles with a belligerent host already seeking Plan […]

The bodies of dozens of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF soldiers killed by al-Shabaab a week ago in Somalia will be flown home this week, the military has said, without specifying the day. The militants attacked and overran a UPDF […]

The African Union’s proposal to expand the peace search in Sudan has received early backing from the West, suggesting mediation will now go beyond warring generals and rope in civilian groups. After Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni chaired a meeting of […]

Somalia’s new radical proposals, meant to upend the country’s political system from parliamentary to presidential, is raising a storm, and exposing further cracks between Mogadishu and some political quarters. On May 28, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud led the federal presidents […]

Debt, a weakening currency and high food prices are not problems unique to Kenya, but they are pushing Nairobi’s current open-door policy to the world’s greatest powers, potentially becoming a theatre of ongoing global rivalry. This week, President William Ruto […]

In a short video clip circulated on social media platforms much of Thursday, popular Kenyan comedian Eric Omondi, flanked by a group of youth with their mouths taped, launches a salvo of terse messages to President William Ruto. “Mr Ruto, […]

Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov may have received the reassurance he was looking for in Africa on his fourth trip on the continent since Moscow launched a war on Ukraine. And it appears he prefers the continent’s relative neutrality to […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has linked the apparent appeal of his son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to younger Ugandans to their “frustration” with weaknesses within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. In his first detailed public comments about the activities […]

Shelling rocked greater Khartoum on Friday, as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals intensified despite US sanctions imposed after the collapse of a US- and Saudi-brokered truce. Witnesses reported artillery fire around the state television building in the capital’s sister city […]

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki is calling on Russia to play its part to end what he called a long-standing unipolar world order dominated by the United States. Afwerki’s four-day trip this week, on the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, […]

Nine people have died in clashes across Senegal, the interior minister said on Friday, after a court sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail. A conviction for “corrupting youth” may disqualify Sonko, President Macky Sall’s fiercest […]