Tanzanian police detained leading opposition Chadema party figures including former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu, and rounded up several hundred youth…
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Paul Kagame was Sunday sworn in for a fourth term as Rwanda’s president after winning 99% of the vote in…
At least 17 people are now known to have died after a landslide at a massive rubbish dump in the…
Ethiopia has signed an agreement for the design of a new four-runway airport that will be Africa’s biggest when construction…
At least 32 people were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber and gunmen targeted a popular beachfront…
Ethiopia has secured an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a new financing program worth $3.4 billion, the IMF…
At least 19 people drowned when their boat sank in a river in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region on Saturday, the…
The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has jumped to 229 and could rise further as the search…
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…