For a man whose word is law in his country, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has always appeared baffled at neighbouring Kenya’s querulous politics. During his latest visit to Kenya on August 27, Museveni couldn’t resist the urge to comment on […]

Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is seeing September, again, as a lucky month to market himself to the global audience as the legitimate leader of his country. It comes even as the ongoing war churns out a king-size humanitarian […]

Comoros President Azali Assoumani is “out of danger” after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later, officials said on Saturday. Theattackoccurred around 2 pmlocal […]

Kenya’s President William Ruto says members of the UN Security Council (UNSC, especially those holding the power of the veto should support reforms of the global body, to make it responsive to the needs of the world’s citizens. While in […]

As Kenya this month holds anniversaries forthe major terrorist attacks that has rocked the country in the past, including the 9/11 attack and the September 21, 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, the US has once again alerted its citizens […]

Kenya’s PresidentWilliam Rutoon Friday said a bilateral deal his country had signed with Germanywouldnoterodethe skills needed to help industrialise,but wasinstead an opportunity to addressyouthunemployment. At a jointpress briefingwith German Chancellor Olaf Scholzin Berlin,DrRuto fought back criticismthatthe deal could lead to […]

South Sudan’s parties to the 2018 peace agreement have extended the transitional period by another two years, delaying the country’s first anticipated democratic elections that had been scheduled for this December. In a meeting held this evening at the Presidential […]

A civil sector ‘white paper’ on the hopes and aspirations of Africa’s youth across 16 Sub-Saharan states, including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, has shown declining trust in nearly all figures and institutions of authority. The recently published African Youth […]

Swiss authorities have frozen more than $310 millionacross multiple bank accounts allegedly linked to Adani, the Indian conglomerate bidding to take over operations of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA, as fraud claims against the company resurface. Adani Airport Holdings’ privately […]

Guinea Bissau’s President Umaro Cissoko Embalo said on Thursday he would not run for a second term in elections in November. Embalo, 51, waselectedin January 2020 to succeed outgoing president Jose Mario Vaz. He defeated runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira with […]

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS, the party led by President Felix Tshisekedi, has been in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, but it now faces internal turmoil. The bone of contention threatening to distract the […]

As the sun sets over the refugee camp in Blue Nile State, casting long shadows over rows of makeshift tents, a small group of children huddle together. Their eyes are marked with anxiety and fatigue, as shown in a video […]

Dickson Ndiema, the man accused of setting Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei on fire, leading to her death, is dead. Sources at an Eldoret hospitalon Tuesday told the Nation that Ndiema, who was admitted to the facility with burn wounds, breathed […]

Both Sudan and Chad have been hit by flooding, while Lesotho, another country in Africa, is impacted by drought, a UN spokesman said on Monday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA is warning that heavy rains […]

Floods in north Nigeria have killed more than 80 percentof animals in a large zoo with an array of wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffaloes and ostriches, the facility said on Tuesday. “Some deadly animals have been washed away […]

The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and acid had been poured on his face, […]

Algerians headed to polls on Saturday to elect their next president, with more than 23 million citizens in the country eligible to cast their ballots. Voting began early in the day, with polling stations nationwide opening at 8:00 amlocal time […]

Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday’s election on Sunday, but a rival candidate alleged irregularities in the count and fewer than half of registered voters cast ballots. Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95 percent of the vote, enough […]

Somalia says it will make good its threat of punishing corporate bodies labelling or operating as though Somaliland is independent territory. Mogadishu had said all firms with operations in Somalia should, by September 1, have altered information on their network […]

Egypt and Turkey may have had difficult times in the past decade, but they are both allies of Somalia, with which they have signed defence co-operation agreements. That is why when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toured Ankara this week […]

Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday, September 6. Sudan’s […]

Images of Kenyan President William Ruto and his entourage alighting from a Kenya Airways plane upon their arrival in China on Monday stirred up social media among the country’s famed digital activists. The reactions were mostly laudatory, with some commentators […]

At least 17 pupils have been confirmed dead and 14 others seriously injured following a tragic dormitory fire tragedy at a primary boarding school in central Kenya. The blaze occurred at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri at night. National […]

Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was admitted to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County, in Kenya, has died. According to MTRH acting CEO Dr Owen Menach, who is the Director of Clinical Services and Surgery, […]