Somalia’s Prime Minister Hussein Roble has urged the business community to contribute to the humanitarian efforts to help countrymen affected by the ongoing drought. “I have no words that are powerful enough to recall the honourable role the business community […]

South Africa has said it is being punished for being efficient in detecting new Covid-19 variants, while Botswana claims the Omicron variant was brought into their country by diplomats. Both countries have been placed on the UK red list of […]

A group of African civil society advocates have appealed to the United Nations (UN to take immediate action to prevent looming genocide in Ethiopia. In a joint statement signed by 34 civic organisations and 31 activists from across the continent, […]

Lekarokia ole Nang’oro stands on a rock at Olkiloriti in Oloitoktok, Kajiado County, looking across the border into Mbomai Village in Tanzania. Kajiado borders Nairobi to the south and extends all the way to Kenya’s border with Tanzania. There is […]

Uganda police failed to stop three terror attacks in 24 days – including the twin blasts that killed four people in Kampala on November 16 – but sprang into action, killing seven and arresting 106 suspects linked to the explosions. […]

The African Union on Saturday cautioned countries across the world againstimposing quick travel banson travellers from the continent, in the wake of a new variant of the Covid-19 virus said to be more infectious. Dr John Nkengasong, the Director of […]

Kenya’s Envoy to the UN spoke to Aggrey Mutambo on why the conflict in Ethiopia matters to Kenya and what the international community can do to de-escalate tensions Why has it been so difficult to get the parties in Ethiopia […]

The East African Community has lost any hope of resolving the political differences between Uganda and Rwanda, which led to the closure of the common border in 2019, due to the lack of political for dialogue. This has emerged as […]

Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is exuding confidence about his chances of persuading his estranged allies in the defunct National Super Alliance (Nasa to join another coalition he is building to back his fifth stab at the presidency Mr […]

Rwanda will effective Sunday, November 28, reinstate the mandatory 24-hour quarantine for all arriving passengers as officials move to control potential entry and spread of the new deadly Covid-19 variant detected in Southern Africa. The health ministry announced Friday that […]

South Africa has declined to renew special residence permits for nearly 200 000 Zimbabwean economic refugees and asylum seekers that expire next month. Pretoria said it will instead give beneficiaries of the scheme that was first introduced in 2009 to […]

The transition of Sudan to civilian rule following the ouster of Omar al-Bashir in April 2019 is now threatened by emerging differences within the civilian wing that had led the revolution. Reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is currently facing isolation […]

The South African government has slammed the UK government over a “rushed” decision to placeit on a travel red list following the emergence of a new highly mutatedCovid-19 strain. On Thursday, the UK announced it had placedSouth Africa and five […]

Botswana has recorded four cases of the new Covid-19 variant now known as B.1.1.529, the country´s presidential Covid-19 Task Force announced Thursday in a statement. The preliminary report revealed that all four had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, […]

Kenya has warned health facilities to prepare for an upsurge in the number of Covid-19 cases that are likely to be more sever among unvaccinated persons. This follows reports that a new coronavirus variant, known as B.1.1.529 and first detected […]

The UK has introduced new travel conditions for six African countries, including South Africa, due to growing concern over a newly discovered coronavirus variant, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced. From noon Friday, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho […]

Mama Hawa Obama, the sister of late Barack Obama Snr (former US President Barack Obama’s father) has passed on. She died aged 80, her son Razick Amuna said while confirming her death. According to him, she died shortly before 1am Thursday. […]

Days after signing the political agreement preceding his reinstatement, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok denied that he was subjected to internal or external pressure to enter a deal with the army chief Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. Instead, Hamdok said […]

Eight people were killed and over a dozen injured in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, in the latest attack claimed by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the troubled country. “Eight civilians were killed […]

Libya’s electoral commission on Wednesday announced its rejection of the candidacy of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi, to run in next month’s presidential election. Other hopefuls still in the running include eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, interim […]

The US says it is neutral to the conflict in Ethiopia, even as Washington and a number of Western countries ordered their nationals out of the Horn of Africa country over rising possibility of violence. Jeffrey Feltman, the US Special […]

Teen mothers in Tanzania who had been stopped from returning to classes have been allowed back to school, in a big policy shift by President Samia Suluhu’s administration. The change in policy comes four years after latepresident John Magufuli decreed […]

The United Kingdomis concerned about human rights violations in Zimbabwe, which include the targeting of prominent opposition and civil society leaders, a new report says. In its Human Rights Priority Countries’ ministerial statement for the period January to June 2021 […]

A group of South Sudanese nationals sent to study in Zimbabwe six years ago are stranded after Juba failed to provide them air tickets to return home, they say. The 14, recently graduated from the National University of Science and […]