Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 85, was freed from prison on Wednesday after a court reinstated a pardon of his 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Fujimori, who served from 1990 to 2000 and is now in poor health, left […]

Uganda on Wednesday accused the West of trying to pressure Africa into accepting homosexuality after the United States slapped its officials with visa restrictions for tough anti-gay laws. The country adopted one of the world’s harshest laws against homosexuality in […]

More than 50 civilians were killed in attacks in Ethiopia last month, a human rights body said Wednesday, barely two weeks after talks between the government and a rebel group from the country’s most populous region ended without agreement. The […]

Chad and Mauritania, the two remaining members of West Africa’s G5 Sahel Alliance on Wednesday said they were paving the way to dissolving the anti-militia grouping, after Burkina Faso and Niger announced their withdrawal on Saturday. A statement released by […]

Seventeen people, including a Kenyan national, died when a passenger bus careered off a road on a “killer curve” and plunged down a mountain in the Central Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The bus was travelling in Hamtic municipality in Antique […]

Mali and Niger have revoked two treaties with France for cooperation and administrative assistance in tax matters, their governments said in a statement on Tuesday. The two West African countries are run by military juntas that seized power in coups […]

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(Ocha says it is working with other humanitarian agencies to help mitigate and respond to increasing incidents of gender-based violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC. […]

The Kenyan High Court has suspended the sale of 11 parastatals after opposition leader Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM party challenged the decision. ODM argues that the sale should be subjected to a referendum because of strategic importance of […]

With murals of his smiling face still covering many buildings, South Africans on Tuesday marked 10 years since the death of Nelson Mandela with a mixture of longing for his integrity and disappointment over what has happened since. While no […]

A Nigerian army drone strike accidently killed at least 85 civilians on Sunday in a village in northwest Kaduna State, emergency officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest military bombing accidents. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday ordered an […]

South Sudan First Vice-President Riek Machar has accused President Salva Kiir of picking “friendly” members to the National Elections Commission (Nec. In a letter addressed to President Kiir, Dr Machar said that there have been “anomalies” in the appointment process. […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming presidential election officially has 23 contenders. But just two — President Felix Tshisekedi and Moïse Katumbi —have so far been campaigning across the country ahead of the polls due on December 20. However, there […]

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad is set to formally amend its mediation programme on Sudan, which had included the creation of a quartet of countries seeking peace. The bloc has organised a summit of heads of state and government […]

The African Court on Human Rights and Peoples Rights (ACPHR has named Kenya and Tanzania as some of the member states that have failed to implement its decisions. The court’s president Justice Imani Daud Aboud cited the Ogiek land rights […]

The shock resignation of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM secretary-general Daniel Chongolo this week exposed simmering power tussles within Tanzania’s ruling party that is showing all signs of becoming messy as the next elections cycle approaches. Chongolo’s exit was based on […]

The East African Community (EAC regional force began its withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday morningafter Kinshasa deemed it ineffective and refused to renew its mandate. The regional bloc first deployed troops in the violence-plagued region in […]

Somalia’s president welcomed Friday’s decision by the UN Security Council to fully lift an arms embargo on the Somalian government, while maintaining a ban on sales to the country’s Islamists militants. The United Nations in 1992 imposed an embargo on […]

Arriving back home from the 23rd Summit of the Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC in Arusha, South Sudan President Salva Kiir was warmly received by jubilant countrymen and women at the Juba International Airport on November […]

The UN Security Council (UNSC on Friday voted to lift an arms embargo on Somalia government forces, ending 31 years of restrictions that had prevented the country from upgrading its military with freely purchased new weaponry. In a decision, the […]

Chad’s opposition and civil society groups are asking France to immediately withdraw troops who arrived in Chad after being ordered to depart neighboring Niger by that country’s military junta. Ordjei Abderahim Chaha, president of the opposition party Rally for Justice […]

At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council on Friday ended the world body’s political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding […]

Kenyan High Court judges have this week issued orders against the enforcement of new social housing and healthcare taxes, delivering a major blow to President William Ruto’s quest to push through his bottom-up economic agenda. The separate rulings made within […]

Controversial Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie has been jailed for a year and a half for illegally distributing unrated films to support his radical sermons. Mackenzie was also jailed for a further six months for operating a film studio without a […]

Israel’s military said Friday it had resumed fighting in Gaza, with airstrikes and artillery fire reported in Gaza City, as a truce expired with no agreement to extend it. “Hamas violated the operational pause, and in addition, fired toward Israeli […]