Ugandan security forces on Wednesday beat up and injured journalists who were covering the National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate in January 14 election, Robert Kyagulanyi…
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Hussein Mwinyi, the President of Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, has announced the country’s flag would fly at half-mast following…
The opposition in Somalia has threatened to stage a protest against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s continued stay in power after his tenure expired last week. Former…
Uganda’s State Minister for ICT and National Guidance, Peter Ogwang, has announced the full restoration of internet and social media services with the exception of Facebook.…
Police in Madagascar have banned all political rallies in the capital, Antananarivo, ahead of planned demostrations by the opposition. The opposition, under the banner of Miara-manonja…
Tesfaye Gobezay, the head of Ethiopian Agency for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA), says there are plans to close two refugee camps in the northern state…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has adjourned the trial of two former militia leaders, Alfred Yékatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, in the Central African Republic (CAR) to…
The opposition in Somalia has threatened to stop recognising Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo as president after his tenure ended on 8 February 2021. Somalia had missed a…
Zanzibar’s First Vice-President, Seif Sharif Hamad, and his wife have tested positive for Covid-19, ACT-Wazalendo’s Secretary-General Ado Shaibu said in a statement. Hamad’s aides also contracted…
Uganda’s Ministry of ICT and National Guidance has warned it would effect the arrest of people spreading ‘false information about a plan to “shut down” the…