M23 rebels killed at least 171 civilians during a massacre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in November, the United Nations said Tuesday, revising an earlier reported toll of 131. In a document summarising abuses committed in the DRC last […]

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye is set to take over the leadership of a wider regional peace mechanism, granting him additional duties to steer the peace shuttle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ndayishimiye, the current chairperson of the East African […]

Lagos Nigeria will elect a new president on February 25 to take over from Muhammadu Buhari in a contest pitting the old guard against a third-party candidate seeking to upset the established political order. There are 18 candidates on the […]

Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug with their bare hands through the freezing night Tuesday hunting for survivors among the rubble of thousands of buildings felled in a series of violent earthquakes. The confirmed death toll across the two countries […]

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings, and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus and Egypt. One of the largest to […]

Some Congolese youth on Monday held demonstrations in the city of Goma, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, alleging the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF was passive to armed groups. They demanded the departure of the […]

Questions of accountability are starting to emerge as different cohorts of Uganda’s military deployed for peacekeeping operations in Somalia have gone for 27 months, spread across five years, without pay, despite the European Union – the mission’s biggest funder – […]

Nigeria police thought they had wiped out the baby factory menace. That was until a 17-year-old was caught in homestead where he was ‘assigned’ to impregnate ten young women in Nigeria’s Rivers State. The boy was just a stud or […]

Last week, Uganda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa popped the lid on the widely known, but rarely talked about, issue of homosexuality in Uganda, saying schools have been the target of pro-gay activists seeking acceptability in the country. He […]

By Abdi Ismail Samatar For at least 14 years now, the militant group Al-Shabaab has terrorised the southern region of Somalia. Its ambition is to impose a tyrannical dictatorship over the entire country through fear and brutality. To achieve its […]

The United Nations has finally agreed to provide South Sudan with technical assistance to hold elections in December 2024, even though doubts remain on whether the timelines are workable. On January 28, the head of the United Nations Mission in […]

Pope Francis arrived on a three-day visit to South Sudan on Friday to promote peace and reconciliation in the world’s youngest country, traumatised by civil war and scarred by poverty. The “pilgrimage of peace”, with his Anglican and Scottish Presbyterian […]

Kenya’s police boss has defended the downgrade of former president Uhuru Kenyatta’s security, describing it as a routine reorganisation meant to address a command responsibility issue. Inspector-General of Police Japhet Koome said Friday he had recalled the top officer on […]

US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Centre, said that the hackers, […]

Among the more ambitious hopes for Pope Francis’ visit to South Sudan this week is that it will give a jolt to a peace process aimed at ending a decade of conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. […]

The High Court in Kenya has sentenced former police officer Sergeant Fredrick Ole Leliman to death for the murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others in 2016. Kenya has not executed anyone since 1987, with death sentences […]

Somalia’s counter-terrorism policy may be stifling the media reporting against violent extremism, a study released on Thursday says. The report further suggests areas to rope in more positive messaging to tame the vice. An analysis of the existing Federal Government […]

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called for a Summit of the East African Community in a bid to resolve some of the simmering issues within the bloc. The Extra-Ordinary Summit in Bujumbura will be held under President Ndayishimiye as the […]

At least 21 people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan on the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to encourage peace in the conflict-ridden country, local authorities said. Francis is scheduled to arrive on Friday […]

Abuja Troops have killed at least 37 Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria and 13 arrested logistic suppliers of the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap. The terrorists were killed during a raid on their camps in Kayamari, Habasha and Yuwe […]

Cameroonian President Paul Biya has ordered a probe into the abduction and subsequent brutal killing of journalist Mbani Zogo Arsène Salomon who was popularly known as Martinez Zogo. The lifeless body of 51-year-old Zogo, in an advanced state of decomposition, […]

Hanah Zachariah is so determined to see Pope Francis in South Sudan that she walked nine days in sandals to reach the capital where the pontiff makes his long-awaited visit. On Thursday, the 20-year-old reached the outskirts of Juba after […]

Pope Francis is making a long-awaited “peace pilgrimage” to conflict-torn South Sudan, but whether his plea for reconciliation is heard by the country’s battle-hardened leaders remains an open question. It is the first visit by a pope since the mostly […]

Dodoma Tanzania’s office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP has come under scrutiny after President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday revealed that most of the money that was collected through plea-bargaining agreements cannot be traced and is suspected to […]