East Africa

Uganda plans to borrow $400 million from several lenders including Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and a United Nations fund to...

Ethiopia's central bank governor, Mamo Mihretu, said on Wednesday he was leaving government after a tenure that redefined the country’s...

Jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye boycotted the start of his treason trial on Monday, accusing the presiding judge of bias, his...

Madagascar ceremonially received three colonial-era skulls from France on Tuesday, 128 years after they were taken from the Indian Ocean...

Campaigners calling for the cancellation of African debt staged a protest in Ghana’s capital. The event on Friday — which...

Kenya has hired a former Trump administration official to lobby Washington, according to the Daily Nation newspaper. Nairobi signed an agreement...

Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States earlier this month, a government spokesperson said in a statement on...

Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism...

Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as its candidate for next year’s general election – and...

Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who has played a prominent role in anti-government protests, said on Wednesday he plans...