East Africa
News and analyses on the countries located in the eastern sub-region of the African continent.
Middle east fuel crisis keeps Mozambique fishermen ashore
Rising fuel prices linked to tensions in the Middle East are forcing many fishermen in Mozambique's capital to keep their...
Read moreDetailsSomaliland president visits Israel in defiance of Mogadishu
Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed his counterpart from Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in Jerusalem on Sunday....
Read moreDetailsSomali President says Israel exploiting row with Somaliland
In an interview with a local TV station, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel's recognition of Somalliland marked one of the...
Read moreDetailsHealth workers struggle to contain Ebola in Congo camps as distrust grows
After the Kpangba displacement camp became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two...
Read moreDetailsSomaliland says it has a right to choose its relationships as it opens new Taiwan office
Somaliland has a right to choose its own relationships and pressure tactics from Beijing and Mogadishu have not succeeded in...
Read moreDetailsSomali football referee denied entry to US returns home to hero’s welcome
Somali international referee Omar Artan has returned home to a hero’s welcome after being banned from entering the United States....
Read moreDetailsCongo Ebola contact tracing is below target but has improved, WHO says
Efforts to trace contacts in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to contain the country's Ebola outbreak have improved...
Read moreDetailsKenyan police crack down on protest against US Ebola quarantine facility
Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday at hundreds of protesters demonstrating against a quarantine centre, for Americans exposed...
Read moreDetailsSomali soccer referee denied US entry, will miss World Cup debut
The United States has denied entry to soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected to be the first...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo court sentences 54 to death in final verdict on murder of UN experts
Nearly nine years after the killing of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's High...
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