The continual drought in Eastern Africa means that at least one in every five people you meet is unable to have their fill each day, signalling trouble even for those traditionally unaffected by scarcity of the precious commodity. A new […]

A court in Chad on Tuesday has sentenced more than 400 rebels to life in prison over the death of former president Idriss Deby, who was killed on the frontline of a battle against them in 2021. The trial of […]

Addis Ababa The decision by the Ethiopian Parliament to delist the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF as a terrorist organisation is being viewed as a positive step to help the Horn of African country recover from its two-year war. And […]

It had not rained properly for months but the floods kept coming, inching up the mud-earth fortifications that stood between Bentiu’s marooned and starving people and the endless water beyond. Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to […]

Nairobi Uganda’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence. Same-sex relations are legal in only 22 of […]

Amnesty International has urged Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni to reject a tough anti-gay bill passed by parliament, warning it was”a grave assault” on LGBTQ people. Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday evening hastily passed the billordering harsh penalties for anyone who engages […]

Tanzania has confirmed that a disease that killed five people and left three others in critical condition in the Kagera region is the Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Tanzania’s Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said their public health […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin used a gathering of African politicians in Moscow to slam the West for trying to cripple his country with sanctions. Mr Putin, recently indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in neighbouring Ukraine, […]

Kenya’s Cabinet on Tuesday endorsed separate bilateral treaties with China and Italy that will see Nairobi extradite its own citizens to the two countries if they break laws there. The new arrangement now awaits the nod of the National Assembly […]

Russia has hit back at the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a probe of its own, targeting officials of the global judicial organ after it issued warrants of arrest issued against their country’s President Vladimir Putin for war crimes. Read: ICC judges issue […]

They say when Kenya coughs, the rest of East Africa catches a cold. This held true on Monday when protests called by Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga literally put Uganda on the edge, amid calls to President Yoweri Museveni to […]

Kenyan President William Ruto wants the treaty establishing the East African Community (EAC) amended to reflect current status of the bloc including its membership. At a meeting with the Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Mr Joseph Nkakirutimana, […]

South Africa may find itself in the spotlight again after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes in Ukraine. But that may bring bad memory for South Africa’ […]

As Rwandan President Paul Kagame prepares to run for the fourth term next year, he faces the daunting task of ensuring his party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), continues to deliver on its key promises, including maintaining unity and reconciliation […]

South Africa’s leftwing opposition launched strikes and rallies under heavy security on Monday in a bid to force out President Cyril Ramaphosa over his handling of the country’s sickly economy and crippling energy crisis. Several thousand protesters gathered at a […]

Kenyan riot police fired tear gas Monday to disperse demonstrators gathered in Nairobi for a day of action called by the opposition to protest the country’s punishing cost of living crisis, AFP correspondents said. The government of President William Ruto […]

The posture of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF is likely to change in the coming days after entry of troops from Angola, and later, the Southern African bloc Sadc, to support peace efforts, even though under a separate […]

Just two weeks after hosting Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni on a state visit, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa this week met with Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan, on an almost identical state visit, with both leaders promising growing mutual ties, increased […]

Moscow is now sub-Saharan Africa’s leading supplier of firearms, beating China in exports to the region over the last five years, an indication of its growing influence on the continent. Data by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI, a […]

Building tensions between Kenya’s President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga is likely to lead to disruptions in its capital city Nairobi on Monday after the latter declared a planned protest march by his supporters “the mother of all […]

Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Museveni’s adviser on special operations, went to Twitter once again to make announcement: This time round Gen Muhoozi said he will be contesting the presidency in 2026, but later on deleted it. For the son […]

Egypt and Ethiopia have once again locked horns in a fresh row over the latter’s massive dam project, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. The new development comes after Cairo issued a fresh warning saying that […]

The International Criminal Court on Friday announced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children. The Hague-based ICC said it had also issued a warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s presidential […]

Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative said. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus […]