Security forces in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional state have killed a large number of Oromo Liberation Army (OLA rebel members, the Government Communication Service announced. In a statement on Saturday, the Minister of State Communications, Legesse Tulu, said an anti-insurgency operation […]
Somalia’s capital Mogadishu will be placed under lockdown ahead of the long-delayed presidential election on Sunday. Police spokesperson Col Abdifatah Aden Hassan announced that residents will be under a 33-hour curfew as a security measure to allow the 329 members […]
Ethiopian authorities on Friday revoked the press credentials of a foreign journalist who had been working for The Economist in the Horn of Africa nation. In a letter issued Friday afternoon and seen byThe EastAfrican, the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA […]
Somalia will hold its presidential elections this Sunday, coming 15 months later than the original schedule of February 8, 2021. This election has attracted the largest number of contenders in Somalia’s history. According to a list publicised by the Somalia […]
Somalia is holding its presidential elections this Sunday, coming 15 months later than the original schedule of February 8, 2021. It is a positive move, nonetheless, according to the country’s international partners, who see it as a way to create […]
Five years ago, Alpha Omega Dairy was one of Zimbabwe’s fastest-growing dairies, with a range of products that became dominant on supermarket shelves and the streets in the country’s major cities. Built by former first lady Grace Mugabe on commercial […]
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, state news agency WAM reported on Friday. He was also ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate. Under the constitution, vice-president and premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of […]
Kenyan nurse Anna Qabale Duba is the first winner of the prestigious Aster Guardian Global Nursing Award. Ms Qabale, who hails from Marsabit county, has taken home $250,000 after seeing off nine other finalists in Dubai. She was selected by […]
Juba, South Sudan’s peace monitoring agency has appealed to the Revitalized Transitional Legislative Assembly to urgently enact legislations aimed at meeting the elections deadlines as stipulated in the 2018 revitalized peace deal. While officialising a sensitisation workshop on the peace […]
Chadema’s General Assembly has expelled 19 special seats Members of Parliament, who had earlier appealed theNational Executive Committee decision to remove them from theparty. The 19 had lost in the 2020 election but were sworn in as special seat MPs, […]
Police in Kampala on Thursday morning foiled an attempt by opposition strongman and four-time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye to stage a protest. Dr Besigye was set to protest against the soaring commodity prices in the country and an alleged […]
A plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport said. Air traffic controllers “lost radio contact with the aircraft” which was later “located in the forest” near Nanga Eboko, around 150 […]
Kenya’s preferred candidate for the Commonwealth of Nations Secretary-General job, Kamina Johnson-Smith, is expected in the country on Wednesday to discuss her vision for the Commonwealth and the critical importance of the Africa-Caribbean cohort in the family of nations. The […]
Aid agencies in Britain say some asylum seekers have gone into hiding for fear of being sent to Rwanda, from where they will be resettled. Under the partnership between the United Kingdom and Rwanda that was signed last month, people […]
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, jetted into Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Wednesday and is expected to attend a three-day meeting organised by Tanzania’s opposition Chadema party. Kyagulanyi, the leader of the National Unity Platform […]
Fourteen civilians and a soldier were killed by militia on Monday night at the Loda camp for displaced persons in Ituri province, northeast DRC, reports say. According to Jules Tsuba, the head of an association of civil society groups in […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday evening held talks with the leader of the main opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, at State House Dar es Salaam ahead of the opposition party’s general meeting. “We are aware of what the two […]
Britain’s heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William took centre stage amid the pomp and pageantry of the opening of parliament on Tuesday, replacing the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth who missed the grand set-piece event with health issues. With the queen forced […]
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu arrived in Uganda Tuesday morning for a two-day state visit. Invited by her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, she was received at Entebbe International Airport by Third Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Nakadama and State Minister for […]
A militia attack has left at least 40 civilians dead in the northeastern Congolese province of Ituri. Local sources say more than 100 people are missing after the suspected Sunday massacre by the armed group Cooperative for the Development of […]
Ten candidates in Somalia’s presidential race have received their certificates after fulfilling the stipulated election conditions on Sunday, the first of three registration days. At the headquarter of the Upper House of the Parliament in the capital Mogadishu, former President […]
With the clock ticking towards President Uhuru Kenyatta’s exit as the East African Community Summit chairperson this May, opinion is divided on his legacy. The region views him as the president who expanded the EAC membership by overseeing the admission […]
After almost a decade of speculations, Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has publicly expressed his interest in succeeding his father Yoweri Museveni as president of Uganda. Uganda’s first son and commander of the country’s land forces first signalled his desire to go […]
Presidential campaigns in Kenya are expected to pick up momentum once again after a three-week lay-off during which the top candidates sought to stem falling-outs from chaotic party primaries and called off public rallies to mourn former president Mwai Kibaki. […]
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmiss) is reeling from the aftermath of Tuesday’s al-Shabaab attack in which 10 Burundian soldiers operating in Sector III were killed and several others wounded. The attack happened in the same week that […]
