Somalia’s definitive polls date has exposed candidates to a new round of conditions, setting the stage for one of the toughest contests they will face to be cleared. On Thursday, a special parliamentary task force chosen to prepare for the […]

A notable reduction in America’s usage of drone strikes to fight Al-Shabaab in Somalia has resulted in fewerreports of civilian casualties in the country, a reportshows. The latest civilian casualty report by the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM that covered […]

South Africa’s new Covid-19 cases shot up by more than 50 percent Thursday from the previous day, official data showed amid a surge of infections driven by two new Omicron sub-variants. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported that 9,757 […]

Kenyans will head to another General Election this August amid worries of paying more to elect their representatives at a time the economy is tanking and the cost of living is rising. It is a reality that Kenyans are getting […]

US President Joe Biden has appointed Karine Jean-Pierre as the next White House press secretary. Jean-Pierre will be the first black person to hold the high-profile post and the first openlyLGBTQperson in the role. She will replace Jen Psaki under […]

Hope is slowly fading that the eight workers, including a Tanzanian, trapped inside a flooded mine in Burkina Faso willbe rescued alive, a diplomat has said. The eight—a Tanzanian, Zambian and six locals—have been trapped for two weeks at the […]

Somalia’s presidential elections will be held on May 15, signalling an end to more than a year of delays in establishing a new government. The decision was announced on Thursday by the chairman of a new parliamentary team tasked with […]

Four Kenyan children are being held in Uganda’s Luzira Maximum Security Prison for engaging in illegal fishing on that country’s side of Lake Victoria. The four include two secondary school students, one of whom is a KCSE candidate, and two […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and was experiencing mild symptoms, the US State Department said. The top US diplomat, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, has not seen President Joe Biden in person […]

The whereabouts of a Uganda government official remain unknown two days after he was picked up by security personnel inwhat sources say are matters linked to relations with Rwanda. ObedKatureebe,a public affairs officer at the Uganda Media Centre (UMC, a […]

Mali’s military-led transitional government says it has terminated all military and defence cooperation treaties with France, in a sign of further deterioration of diplomatic relations. The junta announced the decision on Monday in a statement that accused France, Mali’s former […]

Somalia’s journalists have traditionally worked in one of Africa’s most dangerous environments, targeted by Al-Shabaab and government operatives alike. But now, journalists say the attacks have shifted online, with hired trolls tormenting them in the digital space. And as practitioners […]

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday ordered a review of the media law to promote press freedom in the country, even as she strongly warned against irresponsible journalism. Samia said her administration is now in dialogue with media stakeholders […]

Heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants stormed an African Union (AU base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that left an unknown number of casualties, a local military commander and witnesses said. AU forces dispatched helicopter gunships after the pre-dawn […]

As Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan gears up to give an address on World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, media practitioners are eagerly waiting for the government to fulfil its commitment to change hostile laws hampering media freedom. This will […]

Rwanda is courting controversy a few weeks after it announced that it had entered into a partnership with the United Kingdom to host migrants claiming asylum there. Under the proposed scheme, asylum seekers arriving on small boats across the channel […]

Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda’s first son and commander of the country’s land forces, says he will reveal his political programme “soon”, in what some see as the strongest signal yet for the 2026 presidential election. President Yoweri Museveni’s son, who […]

President Yoweri Museveni has hinted at the possibility of deploying a large Ugandan force and troops to deal with the insurgency in the troubled Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique if the security problem is not resolved soon. In a joint […]

The latest peace bid for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled eastern region appeared headed for a solid footing after 24 armed groups gathered in Nairobi to express their grievances, in a meeting endorsed by the UN and the African […]

Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s third president from December 2002 until April 2013, died on April 21. He was 90. And with that, the exit of easily East Africa’s most enigmatic leader. Warts and all, and an administration that had […]

On a hot Sunday afternoon, Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrived in Uganda to attend the birthday celebrations of Land Forces commander Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. This was the first time the Rwandan leader was setting foot in Uganda in more than […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has once again requested to address the African Union (AU, Moussa Faki Mahamat, AU Commission Chairperson said on Friday. In a tweet, Mr Faki said he received the president’s request during a phone call from Ukraine’s […]

Ethiopian authorities have arrested over 200 people linked to the deadly religious violence last Tuesday in the country’s northern Gondar city of Amhara region. Attack on a Muslim community in Gondar left 21 peopledead, the Amhara Regional Islamic Affairs High […]

The Opposition in Somalia is riding high after clinching victory in the Wednesday race to control the federal parliament after candidates from their caucuses won the vote to become speakers of the bicameral legislature. Mohamed Mursal Abdurahman, the outgoing Speaker […]