East Africa

Rwanda has been one of the star performers across development indicators over the past two decades. Central to achieving its...

A new United Nations report warned indicates that four countries contain spots on problems of food insecurity and could potentially...

Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is well known for his promotion of the use of mother tongue languages, but he...

Barely three years ago, little-known Abiy Ahmed burst onto the Ethiopian political scene at the height of another tumultuous period...

By Kjell Johannes Havnevik* The former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa, who died on July 24, was the country’s third president....

East Africa is being ransacked currently by the most migratory pests - locusts and is already threatening agricultural sectors of...

After declaring an end on Monday to a costly two-decade military stalemate, Ethiopia and Eritrea - one a rising African...

In Elly Joy Kanini’s farmyard in Kenya’s Tharaka Nithi County, a few chickens perch while others peck for food, and...

‘Frenamo partocracy’. This is the buzzword in Mozambique’s political circles, conceived by sceptical wags to describe the latest ‘decentralisation’ deal...

By Mark Anderson Theresa May will become the second woman after Margaret Thatcher to hold Britain's highest office when David...