The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has jumped to 229 and could rise further as the search…
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Ugandan security forces detained a number of young people on Tuesday in downtown Kampala who were taking part in a…
Police were out in force on the empty streets of the Ugandan capital Kampala on Tuesday ahead of a planned…
Dozens of fighters were killed in clashes on Monday in the southern tip of Somalia when al Shabaab militants tried…
On Monday, soldiers and police cordoned off the headquarters of Uganda’s largest opposition party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), as…
Ugandan security forces have surrounded the headquarters of the main opposition party in advance of a planned antigovernment rally over…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has warned protesters that they will be “playing with fire” if they press ahead with plans…
Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over…
As Rwandans go to the polls for presidential and legislative elections, some 9.7 million people are voting in an atmosphere…
Sudan’s warring parties are in Switzerland for U.N.-led talks aimed at brokering possible local ceasefires to facilitate aid and protect…
Amsons Group, Tanzania’s leading manufacturing and energy giant, has issued a binding offer to acquire up to a 100 percent…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has met Sudan’s armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan as regional and world powers…
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has arrived in Zanzibar and is expected to join the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet…
Twenty-five soldiers accused of fleeing fighting against M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been sentenced…
Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in…
Activists behind Kenya’s anti-government protests are rethinking their strategy after demonstrations on Tuesday were marred by widespread violence and looting. The…