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Since Sunday, 580 Ethiopian refugees have been transferred to the camp and given a hot meal on arrival, a UNHCR spokesman told reporters in Geneva.

The presidential candidates said they had credible information that the government was planning to sign a secret oil exploration and drilling deal with two foreign companies.

Sources say Spokesman for the Police Fred Enanga was not immediately available for comment.

Police deployed heavy trucks to barricade the road thereby obstructing him and his campaign team at Kabasuma swamp from proceeding.

Ethiopia will hold its postponed 6th general elections in May or early June 2021, a government official said on Tuesday. Soliana Shimelis, the communication adviser of…

The plans of Miles Sampa, the Mayor of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, to hold his wedding in a 10,000-seater stadium has been left in tatters after authorities…

Semhal Meles, the daughter of a former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has reportedly been arrested in Tigray. Semhal’s father, Meles Zenawi, who was Interim President of…

A governor in Kenya has died while receiving Covid-19 treatment at a hospital in the capital, Nairobi. John Nyagarama, the 74-year-old governor of Nyamira county, had…

Rwanda’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Johnston Busingye, has said the trial of Paul Rusesabagina – whose story during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood…

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has reappointed his eldest son, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as Commander of the Special Forces Command. The Special Force Command is a…