East Africa

Somali leaders announced on Sunday they had struck a deal to wrap up parliamentary elections by February 25, after repeated...

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas to try to disperse the latest anti-government protest marches in the capital, Khartoum....

Schools in Uganda have fully reopened this morning, almost two years after the coronavirus pandemic started. This has been one...

The tribe factor has previously dominated Kenyan elections with the majority community, the Kikuyu having produced three out of four presidents so...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to Eritrea has condemned sanctions imposed on the one-party state long been...

The head of the International Red Cross (ICRC) has called for an urgent political solution to bring to an end...

Rebellious Tigrayan forces said on Saturday they had seized the strategic town of Dessie in Ethiopia’s Amhara region where tens of...

By David Richard Walwyn* The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and...

By Aikande Clement Kwayu*   John Joseph Pombe Magufuli was a man who deftly played the long political game. He was...

Kenya initially imposed the ban because it said grain from Tanzania and Uganda had high levels of mycotoxins.