A week after more than 20 people were killed by floods and mudslides in Southwestern Uganda, River Katonga flooded and cut off the Kampala-Masaka Highway, a part of the Northern Corridor trade route to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of […]

President William Ruto’s government has come under intense pressure to revise proposed taxes and levies critics say will add the burden on Kenyan households and businesses already grappling with the high cost of living and doing business. The proposals contained […]

Kenya policeon Friday found 29 more bodies in Shakahola Forest, the highestdaily count since exhumations began last month, in the probe into cult leader Paul Mackenzie. The second phase of exhumations began this week, after a team led by the […]

President Paul Kagame visited Rubavu, in northwestern Rwanda, devastated by heavy rains and landslides, on Friday, where he met families living in camps after they were left homeless. The region has been ravaged by floods and mudslides, claiming the lives […]

The US envoy to South Africa on Thursday accused the country of having covertly provided arms to Russia, a charge that drew an angry rebuke from Pretoria. Ambassador Reuben Brigety told a media briefing the US believed weapons and ammunition […]

Amidst complaints of delayed justice, Nigeria has more than 52,446 inmates awaiting trial and 3,298 on death row currently in correctional centres across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT. Rights activists have continued to complain of prison congestion […]

Kenyahas allocated Ksh24 million ($175,438 for the construction of a mausoleum for the late former president Mwai Kibaki, budget disclosures show. Kibaki died on April 22, 2022,at 90 years old and was buried on April 30 in his ancestral home […]

Israel and Gaza militants traded more heavy fire early Thursday, the third day of the worst escalation of violence since the middle of last year over the Palestinian coastal enclave. Air strikes and missiles from Israel have killed 25 Palestinians […]

Kenya will transition Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps into integrated settlements in which refugees are expected to co-exist with host communities and benefit from government services as the state starts the planned closure of the two camps over security concerns. […]

Ugandan President Museveni has renewed calls for a ceasefire in Sudan and warned the army against personalising the country. Museveni on Wednesday met the Special Envoy of the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council in Sudan, Dafallah Al-Haj Ali, at […]

Dubai When conflict flared in Khartoum almost a month ago, pitting Sudan’s armed forces and their heavy weaponry against a paramilitary force born out of an agile but lightly-armed desert militia, it looked like it might prove a one-sided fight. […]

London Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria’s Niger delta region to lodge pollution claims against energy giant Shell after a huge oil spill more than one decade ago. The Supreme Court said in […]

Nigeria continues to evacuate its citizens from Sudan with the deployment of more aircraft that have so far brought home more than 1,866 people, including 136 returnees who arrived on Wednesday. The latest batch of 136 Nigerians evacuated from Sudan […]

Cult leaders, advocates of religious extremism, fake prophets and other unscrupulous religious leaders in Kenya were Tuesday put on notice after two teams were sworn in to investigate their conduct and look into religion’s regulatory framework in the country. The […]

Kenyan investigators have resumed the search for members of a doomsday cult in a forest where more than 100 corpses, mostly of children, have been exhumed, victims of a “highly organised crime”, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday. Paul […]

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday arrested during a court appearance in the country’s capital Islamabad for one of dozens of cases pending since he was ousted last year. His arrest follows months of political crisis and […]

The Nigerian Navy is yet to release a large sea oil vessel and its 26 foreign crew members who pleaded guilty to attempting to steal crude oil in the Niger Delta, almost 10 months after their arrest. The vessel, MT […]

Air strikes again shook Sudan’s capital Monday while the latest truce talks in Jeddah yielded no progress and a Saudi diplomat said both sides consider themselves “capable of winning the battle”. Sudan was thrown into deadly chaos when fighting broke […]

Two of Africa’s regional blocs have signalled a working cooperation in the search for permanent peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), signalling a concurrent troop deployment by the two regions. Separate decisions reached at the end of […]

Police and army officers in Uganda have arrested at least six people in Nabweru in central Wakiso district, who were allegedly found in possession of improvised explosives intended for use during anti-government protests in Kampala. “These were to be used […]

Kenya’s former ruling Jubilee Party is a shell of its former self. From 172 elected members in the National Assembly in 2017, the political party led by former president Uhuru Kenyatta managed to win less than 30 seats in last […]

As fighting continues in Sudan amid a shaky ceasefire, the neighbouring South Sudan faces economic ruin due to the threat the conflict in the north poses to its mainstay – oil exports. The fighting in Sudan erupted on April 15 […]

Tanzania’s operation to relocate Maasai herders from Loliondo has come under fresh international criticism over rights violations claims. A Human Rights Watch report published on April 27 repeated previous calls for an immediate halt to the “forced evictions” from Loliondo, […]

The East African Community Regional Force (EACRF has moved on after the exit of former Commander Maj-Gen Jeff Nyagah, even though the Democratic Republic of Congo was still questioning the role of the mission in ending perennial conflict. A meeting […]