Kenya and Uganda have launched a project to reaffirmborder markers vandalised for extraction of by-products believed to be valuable for resale. The markers, some of which had never been repaired since independence, were destroyed as bandits targeted them over unverified […]
Seven-year-old Safiya Kuriga complained she was feeling feverish but her mother still made her attend class on Thursday. Within two hours, gunmen entered her school and kidnapped Safiya and some 300 other students in Nigeria’s Northern Kaduna state. “I forced […]
The M23 rebel group has taken over the town of Nyanzale in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 15 people in bomb attacks, a local official said on Wednesday. Nyanzale is about 130 km north by road from […]
More than a year ago Haiti’s government formally requested a multinational force be deployed to help its police restore control of the capital Port-au-Prince, as powerful alliances of heavily armed gangs expanded their influence. Progress has lagged, but as Prime […]
SenegalPresident Macky Sall was this week assuring the public his country will emerge from a constitutional crisis and that he will retire on April 2 as the law says. But there are still unclear issues around elections, especially on who […]
The West African regional bloc said on Saturday it would lift strict sanctions on Niger as it seeks a new strategy to dissuade three junta-led states from withdrawing from the political and economic union – a move that threatens regional […]
Twenty-five soldiers have been sentenced to death by a military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo for fleeing battles against M23 rebels and theft, their lawyer and an army spokesman said on Thursday. Congo’s army has been fighting the […]
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the UNSecurity Council on Wednesday that the arrival of the first Kenyan police officers under a UN-backed mission marked a critical stage in restoring security in a country ravaged by gang violence. “The arrival […]
Comoros President Azali Assoumani has put his son, Nour El Fath, in charge of coordinating government affairs as he reshuffled his cabinet following a tense January election that his opponents alleged was tainted by voter fraud. One person was killed […]
Turkey has begun mediating talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The negotiations are the latest attempt to […]
The East African Legislative Assembly (Eala has sworn in the first Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC minister as an ex officio member in Parliament, two years after the Congolese nation joined the regional bloc. Didier Mazenga, the Francophone and Regional […]
Sections of Kenya’s parliament were on fire on Tuesday as protesters overwhelmed police to storm the compound where lawmakers had just passed a contentious bill that would introduce a raft of new taxes. At least 50 people were injured by […]
Kenya’s parliament approved a contentious Finance Bill on Tuesday that pushes up taxes as police and protesters clashed in the streets of the capital Nairobi and other cities. Police used tear gas and water cannon and also fired over the […]
Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, has experienced devastating flash floods that transformed streets into difficult to pass waterways. Residents reported to Reuters that the sudden deluge, which rose to knee height in some areas, caused significant damage to properties […]
Africa’s conflicts are turning out to be the biggest stumbling blocks to achieving crucial Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), drawing back the continent from its oft-praised colourful economic promise. That assessment is drawn from two separate reports launched this week on the […]
UN peacekeepers have started deploying troops in more areas of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to deal with a new wave of violence from various armed groups. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said on Wednesday […]
South Sudan’s opposition and civil society groups, currently negotiating a political deal with their government in Nairobi, say they want the talks to lead to a new constitution so that the country can start from a clean slate. The new […]
The European Union Commission has joined the World Bank in cutting funding for Tanzania’s wildlife conservation programmes in light of concerns over human rights violation allegations. The commission on June 5 cancelled the country’s eligibility for a proposed €18.4 million […]
TheAfrican National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-businessDemocratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together inSouthAfrica’s new government of national unity, a step change after 30 years of ANC majority rule. Once unthinkable, the deal between two sharply […]
Rwanda said the UNrefugee agency had lied when the organisationtold a British courtthis week that asylum seekers sent to thecountry could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death. Lawyers representing the United Nations High Commissioner […]
Former South African presidentJacob Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK party has applied to the country’s top court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting this week on the grounds that the May 29 vote was marred by fraud, it […]
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a newfrontbetween the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF. In a […]
Talks to forge South Africa’s post-election unity government will need to bring together parties with goals as contradictory as seizing white-owned farms and mines, ditching Black empowerment policies and tearing up the constitution. How well the African National Congress (ANC […]
More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged with taking part in a failed coup and other offences that carry the death penalty. […]
The biggest winner in South Africa’s election this week may be former PresidentJacob Zuma, whose newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK party has exceeded expectations and emerged as a major factor in the African National Congress’ sharpdrop in support. MK is […]
