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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has spoken on the early Friday morning raid at a military base in Somalia, revealing details why Al Shabaab managed to overrun the facility manned by up to 200 Ugandan troops. The militants attacked the base […]

Fulgence Kayishema, one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives arrested in Paarl, South Africa, is expected to be extradited to Rwanda. Kayishema was arrested in a joint operation between the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT Office of […]

The Uganda military has sent a team led by the Chief of Land Forces, Lt Gen Kayanja Muhanga, to Mogadishu, Somalia, to ascertain the circumstances under which the country’s troops were attacked on a dawn raid on Friday. The May […]

Sudan’s conflict, which is now in its second month, is raising worries among neighbours that lawlessness there will be exported in the form of illegal small arms. The problem of illegal arms was already being felt across the Horn of […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who arrived in Addis Ababa Wednesday, asked African countries to support a 10-point peace plan proposed by President Volodymyr Zelensky. It is the second time in six months that Ukraine is calling on African countries […]

Africa must not become a ‘geostrategic battleground’ for global powers, as the continent grapples with several threats to its peace and security, African Union leaders warned Thursday. They were speaking at an event to mark the anniversary of the creation […]

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a taxi driver-turned-preacher, used armed gangs with blunt objects to kill some of his followers who took too long to die and those who changed their minds during a fast to death “to meet Jesus”, Kenya’s Interior […]

The United Statesthis week cracked the whip further on Al Shabaab illegal charcoal sellers, imposing sanctions to deter one of the Somali militants’ enduring crimes. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC designated (target for sanctions […]

Puntland, one of Somalia’s five federal states, began municipal council elections, the first one-person, one-vote poll in the country, on Thursday, in spite of calls for delay to build consensus. People queued to cast their ballots in 30 of 37 […]

Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last four fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, UN investigators said on Thursday. “Yesterday afternoon, Fulgence Kayishema – one of the world’s most wanted genocide […]

In preparation for his exit, Nigeria’s two-term leader Muhammadu Buhari, 79, inaugurated some legacy projects, released last-minute funds and chaired his final Federal Executive Council (Fec meeting. President Buhari, who first came to power on May 29, 2015 and was […]

The United Nations is working with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank to create a platform to help process transactions for Russian exports of grain and fertiliser to Africa, the top UN trade official told Reuters on Wednesday. An agreement struck […]

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC on Tuesday made another formal referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC to ensure the court will focus on what it calls the systematic pillaging of its natural resources in eastern Congo by the Rwanda […]

President Yoweri Museveni has demanded that Kenya hands over for trial Turkana herders, who allegedly killed five Ugandans in the volatile northeastern Karamoja region in March 2022. Through Executive Order No.3 of 2023, issued on May 19 and released on […]

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on nations to ramp up funding to the Horn of Africa, which is suffering its worst drought in generations. The United Nations says that more than 43 million people across Somalia, Ethiopia and […]

The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union (UNMU President Justus Cherop on Tuesday said engagements are underway to send some of the 3,000 well-skilled nurses who are not employed by the government to work abroad. His remarks came following ongoing plans […]

The rush by exploration companies searching for oil and gas deposits in northern Zimbabwe has raised concerns over possible neglect of the environment, with activists fearing that lack of accountability will spawn a resource curse. Invictus Energy, a firm listed […]

Private media and online outlets in the West African state of Guinea on Tuesday launched a one-day boycott of news in protest at press and internet restrictions by the ruling junta. Espace TV and Kalac TV posted an image of […]

Congo’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI has registered around 43.9 million voters for general elections in December compared to 40.4 million in the previous poll, it said on Monday, with some among the opposition alleging irregularities. Political tension is on […]

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC have resumed talks to manage refugees on their soils in what appears to be a continual shared problem in spite of recent tensions. The two countries agreed to reactivate agreements for the […]

Witnesses in the Sudanese capital reported clashes and air strikes minutes after a one-week ceasefire was to have come into force to let through life-saving humanitarian assistance. They reported combat in north Khartoum, and air strikes in the east of […]

Sudan’s deadly war has offered looters, both Sudanese and outsiders, a gate pass of sorts, a sign of developing lawlessness. Just last week, the UN said more than 17,000 metric tonnes of food stored in a WFP warehouse in Khartoum […]

Less than four months to the end of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangawa’s first term, the date for the southern African country’s next elections is still a mystery amid calls for electoral reforms. Constitutionally, the terms of office for elected officials, […]

The African Union celebrates its 60th anniversary on May 25, commemorating its achievements in the last six decades, from the time it was known as the Organization of African Unity (OAU. But then as now, 20 years since it transformed […]