East Africa

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has officially endorsed opposition leader Raila Odinga to succeed him in the presidential elections set for...

Kenya’s ambassador at the U.N. Security Council said it was gravely concerned with recent Russia's announcement. Kenyan Ambassador Martin Kimani...

Somalia’s militant group al-Shabab spent $24m (£18m) in 2021 on purchasing weapons, according to a report by a Mogadishu-based research...

China has appointed senior diplomat Xue Bing to a newly created post of special envoy for the Horn of Africa,...

Ethiopia began producing electricity for the first time from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a massive hydropower plant...

Germany's BioNTech, which together with Pfizer developed the first mRNA vaccine against the coronavirus, unveiled mobile vaccine production units housed...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely...

Tanzania is looking to set up its own vaccine manufacturing plant as part of its wider plan to tackle Covid-19...

A Kenyan lawyer, Paul Gicheru, has gone on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, accused of...

Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday approved an early end to a six-month state of emergency, which was imposed in early November as...