Tanzania is moving cautiously in its lucrative natural gas deals with no end in sight of the Host Government Agreement (HGA negotiations, which resumed recently but are set to take longer than expected. Fresh discussions on the HGA over the […]

Sudan’s violence has triggered an intensified diplomatic push to save the country’s transition from falling apart. But that push is facing challenges as protestors keep up opposition to the military junta that took power in October. On Wednesday, a young […]

When the West African bloc Ecowas imposed sanctions on Mali, the country’s junta leader Col Assimi Goïtata called for mass protests to denounce the blockade. It was a show of just how popular his military revolution has become in Mali. […]

A few weeks after Kenya’s Rai family bagged a mega contract to manage part of Mumias Sugar Company’s operations, it is seeking to widen its dominance of the sugar industry business in East Africa by opening a $42.4million sugar plant […]

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has called on the international community to closely watch the campaigns for the country’s August General Election, citing recent violent skirmishes witnessed at his public rallies. In a protest letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ruto’s […]

Kenya’s Northern Corridor Transit Patrol Unit(NCTPU has intensified snap checks and patrol operations along the Webuye-Malaba Highway to curb congestion, speeding and reckless driving that cause accidents, following the huge traffic snarl-upin the highway. Thousands of truck drivers had late […]

Eastern Africa continues to be the origin of most African refugees, with the region producing more than five million displaced people in 2020, a new report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. Terrorism, armed conflict and extreme […]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday asked African countries not to accept anything less at the UN Security Council reforms, until the continent is granted at least two permanent seats. And speaking to a group of Foreign ministers from across […]

Kenya has gazetted 18 diaspora polling centres where the country will undertake a voter registration exercise starting this week ahead of the August 9, 2022 General Election. In the diaspora voter registration, which will run from January 21 to February […]

The Mozambican Defence and Security Forces (FDS say they have arrested a senior leader of Al-Shabab, the terror gang that is responsible for the insurgency in the country’s Cabo Delgado province. Identified only as Ali, 39, the Tanzanian national was […]

The top organ of Tanzania’s ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM, has proposed Deputy Speaker Tulia Ackson to be the next Speaker of Parliament. Dr Ackson will replace Job Ndugai, who resigned on January 6, 2022 following pressure over statements […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun penultimate steps to be formally admitted into the East African Community (EAC, signalling an additional market of 90 million people for the bloc. In Nairobi on Monday, officials of the bloc launched negotiations […]

The fuel crisis has continued to bite for the second week running, with no signs ending. Since last week, the fuel pump prices have increased from Ush4,500 ($1.27 to more than Ush6,000 ($1.69 per litre. Some fuel stations have also […]

Abuja, Bandits attacked Nigeria’s North Central Niger state, near Federal Capital Territory (FCT, killing at least 200 people in 17 days. More than 300 people have been wounded, and hundreds others abducted by bandits who attacked some communities in the […]

Four French soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Burkina Faso, France’s military told AFP Tuesday evening. “(Their off-road vehicle activated an IED as it left Ouahigouya airport,” the army said in a statement, adding the […]

A Kigali court on Tuesday ruled that it will proceed with the appeals hearing in the case of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina after concluding that legal steps were taken to summon him without success. He was not present or […]

Truck drivers on the northern corridor who had gone on strike protesting against the $30 Covid test fee imposed by the Ugandan government have expressed their frustration at the traffic snarl-up that has caused them to spend days on the […]

Mali has asked France for a review of bilateral defence accords against the backdrop of growing tensions between Paris and the ruling junta in Bamako, a French diplomat said Monday. The diplomat told AFP that France was “examining” the request, […]

Uganda announced Tuesday it was suspending mandatory Covid testing at the border with Kenya after the measure caused huge truck queues, disrupting fuel supplies across the country. The crisis has led to panic-buying and skyrocketing prices at the petrol pump, […]

Sudanese forces opened fire killing seven protesters Monday in one of the deadliest recent mass rallies against a military coup, with UN Security Council members urging Khartoum to exercise the “utmost restraint”. The latest violence, which took place in the […]

The US says Ethiopia’s allies can help the country resolve its Tigray conflict by speaking in a ‘common’ voice’, in what could be an indirect jab at Middle Eastern countries supplying arms to the government. Last week, a senior administration […]

Elections in African countries this year will be unlike many others as some of them are a response to coups, conflicts and other derailments of democratic processes in recent years, a report by the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies says. […]

Juba, A South Sudanese break-away military group of the main opposition party, the Sudan People Liberation Army – In Opposition (SPLA-IO, has shifted allegiance to President Salva Kiir in what seems to be a violation of the 2018 peace agreement. […]

A court in Kigali will begin hearing the case of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina on Monday after prosecutors appealed against his 25-year prison sentence, saying it was “lenient”. The prosecution appealed against a September 20, 2021 that found Rusesabagina […]