Kenya’s President William Ruto, the darling of Washington since he took power 21 months ago, is now under pressure from the very Americans to act on graft within his government. The US re-delivered this message on Tuesday and Wednesday, just […]

The Foreign Affairs ministers of Somalia and Ethiopia will meet in Ankara next week to discuss disagreements over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year, Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan said. […]

The UN Security Council this week authorised the peacekeeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo to aid the ground forces in pacifying the restive eastern parts of the country, in what could prolong the mission’s mandate beyond the December […]

Somalia’s Cabinet approved a bill on Thursday that, if confirmed by parliament, will revert the country’s election system to universal suffrage for the first time in decades, ending a process of indirect voting, the government’s spokesperson said. Amid widespread insecurity […]

Miss South Africa entrant Chidimma Adetshina has withdrawn from the contest after she attracted scrutiny over her nationality.Chidimma confirmed the move on Thursday, a day after the Department of Home Affairs announced that it had obtained information that her mother […]

Police fired tear gas to clear pockets of anti-government demonstrators from the centre of Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday, as their protest movement sought to capitalise on earlier concessions and compel President William Ruto to resign. The “Nane Nane” march, […]

South Africa’s premier beauty pageant has descended into more chaos after the Department of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday night that it had uncovered evidence that the mother of contestant Chidimma Adetshina may have committed identity theft, putting her nationality […]

The USsaid on Wednesday it would provide nearly $414 million in humanitarian assistance for the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 25 million people need such aid, nearly a quarter of the country’s population. USAmbassador to the United Nations […]

No woman is seeking the AU Commission Chairperson’s position, come 2025.The final shortlist to be tabled before a Panel of Experts for vetting is an all-male contest, meaning the next deputy chairperson will be female from Northern Africa.The candidates are […]

El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State in Western Sudan has become “the most dangerous and worst place to live on earth” due to the deadly civil war, according to a non-governmental doctors’ union. “All residents of El […]

Thirteen people were killed Monday in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Southern Ethiopia, a local official has said. The catastrophic landslide, which occurred in the Kawo Koisha District in Ethiopia’s southern regional state, claimed the lives of 13 […]

Hundreds of Somalis, including senior government officials, staged a peaceful demonstration in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday to denounce the extremist group al-Shabaab following last Friday’s deadly hotel attack in which 37 people were killed. Gathering at the Lido […]

Amid growing warnings that Sudan could record the largest hunger crisis in the world, the country’s two warring parties traded accusations over the responsibility for a famine recently confirmed in one of the largest camps for the displaced in Sudan’s […]

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, as more people were killed in some of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago. Army chief GeneralWaker-Uz-Zamanannounced Hasina’s […]

Nearly 100 police officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in Congo’s east intensified, a Ugandan military spokesperson said on Monday. The officers arrived via […]

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, multiple sources said, as more people were killed in some of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago. Army chief […]

Uganda on Friday announced the detection of two cases of mpox imported from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC in the western district of Kasese. The cases were among six suspected infections in Mpondwe and Bwera, towns bordering […]

A Kenyan former permanent representative to the UN has criticised a US government over a “lecture” on governance issues, even though Nairobi agreed with it. The matter, concerning the ongoing vetting of nominated Cabinet secretaries, is about those supposedly tainted […]

At least 32 civilians were killed and 63 injured in an explosion on a popular beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Friday evening, police said, an attack blamed by Somali state media on the militant Islamist group Al […]

The African continent has, by far, the highest visa denial rate than any other region in the world, and it is steadily rising, new reports show. The Shorelight report and another study in Europe by migration consultancy firm, Henley & […]

The Kenyan parliament is expected to complete vetting nominees to President William Ruto’s reconstituted Cabinet on Sunday, setting the stage for their swearing into office next week. The parliamentary vetting, which began Thursday, is taking place against the backdrop of […]

Uganda’s opposition party, Forum for the Democratic Change (FDC, is tagging Kenyan authorities’ hand in the brutal arrest and deportation of the party’s members, after which they were slapped with terrorism charges. FDC’s stalwarts had been used to police brutality […]

Cameroonian authorities have released a young activist detained last week after posting a video on TikTok advocating democratic change in the country ahead of next year’s presidential election, his lawyers said. Barrister Akere Muna, lead lawyer for Junior Ngombe, 23, […]