East 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...

In Ethiopia, the latest victims of the year-long war in Tigray are the country’s rich artefacts. Centuries-old manuscripts and scrolls...

On Monday, Ugandan former warlord Dominic Ongwen will be heard by the appeal chamber of the International Criminal court. The...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of Congo $325m (£240m) in...

Africa's efforts to build up capacity to manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 are not designed to meet this year's needs but...