The United States on Wednesday blacklisted two extremist groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique after they were found to have links with Islamic…
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Egypt and Sudan are in discussions on the alternative options for the dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) after Addis Ababa rejected a…
At least twenty people were killed in Somalian capital city, Mogadishu as a suicide car bomb went off outside a restaurant. More than people were also…
The United Nations is seeking access to Ethiopia’s northern region, Tigray, as it aims to probe war crimes after reports of killings and sexual violence in…
Energy minister for Tanzania Medard Kalemani has confirmed that the construction of power lines between Kinyerezi in Dar es Salaam and Kingorwira in Morogoro was complete and that Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (Tanesco) was set to supply the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) locomotives.
As Kenya takes delivery of 1.02 million doses of vaccines through the COVAX facility, the East African nation’s Minister of Health, Mutahi Kagwe remarked rather humorously…
Rwanda has become the first African country to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX facility. Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Kenya have all received…
Two UN agencies – the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) – has made an appeal for about $266 million…
Amnesty International (AI) has accused federal forces, an armed group known locally as ‘Al-Shabaab’ (unrelated to Al-Shabaab in Somalia) and a private military company hired by…
President Uhuru Kenyatta replaces President Paul Kagame as chair of the East African Community. The forum also appointed two new judges to the East African Court of Justice, a regional Court that litigate on treaties of the East African Community.