Heads of Government are expected to decide on the next substantive Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat in Kigali this week. Although the decision is made by consensus, should the leaders decide not to reappoint the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland — […]

Somalia’s Prime Minister nominee Hamza Abdi Barre, 48, may have been a surprise considering he hails from Jubbaland, but he and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud go way back before they both joined politics. Moments after President Mohamud presented him at […]

Rwanda and the UK face renewed pressure over their controversial migrant deal after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR, the final court of appeal for countries that signed the Convention on Human Rights, stopped the first flight of migrants […]

The chaos seen in regional meetings of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC may look like a prelude to December’s potentially explosive national congress. Cracks have deepened as two camps battle to take control of the country’s ruling party. […]

Team University of Uganda has found itself at the centre of a Kenyan election dispute as the electoral commission’s tribunal and the High Court hear petitions challenging the academic qualifications of several candidates. At least five politicians nominated to run […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will not welcome Rwandan troops to be part of the proposed deployment of military forces from the East African Community. The decision on deployment of the East African Standby Force is expected to […]

The call this week by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for urgent deployment of the regional East African Standby Force (EASF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo as violence escalated in the country’s troubled east signalled a sense of fatigue in […]

Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye will remain in custody until July 1 after a court in Kampala denied him bail on Friday, June 17. Dr Besigye and his co-accusedpolitical activist Samuel Lubega Makaku were remanded […]

South Africa has turned to Russia for food as it also considers Moscow’s help to mitigate record fuel prices. President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke on the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday seeking the supply of agricultural products […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has closed its border with Rwanda after a Congolese soldier was shot dead while attacking border guards inside Rwandan territory. The border closure is the latest escalation in a diplomatic crisis that has broken out […]

A DR Congo soldier was killed in the country’s flashpoint eastern region on Friday in an exchange of fire at a border post with neighbouring Rwanda, police said. The incident, coinciding with mounting tension between the neighbouring countries, happened at […]

Veteran Ugandan opposition leaderKizza Besigye has been charged a second time with inciting violence and remanded to custody barely a week after being released on bail. A long-time critic of President Yoweri Museveni, Dr Besigye, 66, has been leading protests […]

A Somali couple has been convicted by a military court in the capital Mogadishu for terrorism activities under the Islamic State (IS branch in Somalia. Dayib Moalim Hassan and his wife Halima Abdi Mursal were on Thursday identified as having […]

Tanzania on Thursday began relocating Maasai pastoralists from the famed Ngorongoro conservation area in a move that rights campaigners described as unlawful evictions. The indigenous community has lived in the reserve, a Unesco World Heritage site in northern Tanzania, for […]

At least 125 people have been killed in Darfur as fresh violence rocked the southwestern region of Sudan amid warnings from the United Nations. Some 50,000 people are reportedly displaced following the fighting that first erupted on June 6 and […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for urgent activation of an East African standby force to help quell the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A statement issued by State House in Nairobi said President Kenyatta was concerned […]

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has nominated legislator Hamza Abdi Barre, 48, to be the next Prime Minister in what signals a touch of loyalty and reward to his supporters. Mr Barre, current MPof the Lower House representing Kismayu inJubbaland […]

The Rwandan government said on Wednesday it was still committed to taking in asylum seekers sent by the UK under a controversial deal after a first flight was cancelled following a European court ruling. “We are not deterred by these […]

Britain pressed on with its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday despite a last-minute intervention by European judges that grounded the first flight minutes before it was due to depart. The government had been forced to fight […]

Kenya on Tuesday evening expressed “regrets” for inviting a Somaliland official to a diplomatic luncheon hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta, where the Somalia ambassador was also a guest. A Foreign Affairs ministry note sent to the Somali Embassy in Nairobi […]

President Yoweri Museveni has blamed past leaders and colonialists for Uganda’s poverty, saying they “poisoned the minds’’ of hardworking farmers. “When the colonials came here, they made our people grow the crops they wanted: cotton, tobacco, coffee, tea, and then […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has, for the first time, said his government is open to negotiations with the northern Tigray rebels. Dr Abiy, responding to queries from members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, said his administration has […]

A majority of Kenyan members of the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala have trooped back home to participate in seeking various seats in the August 9 elections. Oburu Oginga, the elder brother of one of the leading presidential candidates Raila […]

Uganda’s crackdown on ADF rebels in eastern DR Congo, a mission launched jointly with Kinshasa, was driven in part by a desire to protect Ugandan oil interests, researchers said on Monday. But the joint operation also “rankled” Rwanda and became […]