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More than 100 people are feared missing after a boat sank Sunday in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, local media reported Tuesday. According to local officials, the boat sank at around 7 pm, local time, on the […]

Press freedom lobbies are expressing concern over Somalia’s proposed new information law, which they say will hamper their work. The Official Information Bill (OIB, which has already been approved by the Council of Ministers and sent to the Federal Parliament […]

The Ethiopian government has banned all diplomatic missions and international organisations from importing petrol and diesel vehicles. In a statement on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the move was part of Ethiopia’s broader strategy to transition to clean […]

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says he might introduce a tax on church collections, seeking to tame what has turned out to be extortion and exploitative tendencies by evangelical clerics. In his first address after taking a new oath of office […]

Performance and integrity top President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s priorities in government, she said on Thursday while swearing in newly appointed ministers. In her three-minute address after swearing-in the ministers and other government executives, Samia said common sense, diligence and integrity […]

Uganda handed over the almost 100 Congolese police officers whohad fled across the borderto Kanungu District in Southwestern Uganda to escape fighting between M23 rebels and Congo’s military, a Ugandan military spokesperson said Friday. The statement said the police officers’ […]

A number of African countries and civil society organisations are pushing for inclusion of a text on human rights in the proposed treaty on global taxation, possibly forcing firms to adjust the way of conducting businesses. Ongoing discussions for the […]

Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland executed 10 fighters from Islamist militant group Al Shabaab on Saturday, the region’s police said in a statement. The executions, by firing squad, in Galkayo in the state’s Mudug region, followed a trial of the […]

Some 20.1 million people were internally displaced in July in the Horn of Africa region, the United Nations migration agency said on Thursday. The International Organization for Migration (IOM said in a report released in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, […]

Sudan’s army chiefs this week responded to mounting humanitarian pressure by reopening a key border point, but then shut the door on dialogue that would guarantee a lasting ceasefire. The disparate decisions mark the military regime’s latest tactic to portray […]

The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the current round of Israeli-Hamas conflict began on Oct. 7 has surpassed 40,000, Gaza-based health authorities confirmed on Thursday. With an additional 40 people killed […]

The ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is complex. It’s rooted inweak state institutions,ethnic diversityandhistorical grievances. Since the war began inApril 2023, tens of thousands of people have died and over 8.6 million […]

Sudan’s sovereign council said on Thursday it would allow the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad for three months – a move long waited by aid agenciesseeking to send aid into areas of the Darfur region that are […]

Sudan’s army stayed away from new talks seeking to end on the conflict in the country, even as organisers in Geneva, the venue, said their primary target is to achieve ceasefire. The Sudan Armed Forces had threatened to boycott the […]

UN chief Antonio Guterres has called for Africa to be given a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, a reform aimed at making the body more representative and globally credible. Addressing the council on Monday, Guterres said the current […]

Torrential rains and severe flooding have impacted more than 700,000 people in West and Central Africa, just two months into the rainy season, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. Torrential rains and severe flooding in the Central African Republic, Chad, […]

Nation Media Group journalist Rukia Bulle is the 2024 winner of the prestigious BBC Komla Dumor Award. The announcement was made on the BBC website Wednesday morning. Ms Bulle is the third Kenyan to win the award since its establishment […]

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM urged countries to step up their donations in response to the world’s largest displacement crisis in Sudan, warning on Tuesday that inaction could cost tens of thousands of lives. The IOM has received just […]

Tanzanian Police on Monday night released leaders of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, along with several members, on bail, after holding them for several hours to thwart a planned assembly in Mbeya. Theparty had planned a parade to mark the […]

Sudan’s army delegation has rejected proposals involving regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad and the United Arab Emirates in the upcoming dialogue in Switzerland this week. The move is the latest condition imposed by the junta under Abdel Fattah […]

Dr Birungi Korutaro is an agribusiness specialist with more than 14 years of experience in markets development, value chain analysis and development, including formulating agriculture and tourism related investment operations in East and South Africa. Africa is now the most […]

Police arrested senior leaders of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema and hundreds of its supporters ahead of a meeting in the southwest of the country, the party said on Monday. Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and the leader of its youth […]

Djibouti’s topmost diplomat promises to place the continent at the heart of global transformation as he faces three contenders from Kenya’s former PM Raila Odinga,former Mauritian Foreign Minister Anil Kumarsingh, and Richard James Randriamandrato former Foreign minister of Madagascar. Mahmoud […]