KENYA’s President William Ruto has appointed four members of the main opposition party as part of a new cabinet as…
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USING shovels or their bare hands, local residents on Tuesday searched desperately for survivors after a landslide in a remote…
DOZENS of people who joined scattered anti-corruption rallies in the capital Kampala on Tuesday in defiance of an official ban…
OPPOSITION leader Bobi Wine said heavily armed security forces were besieging his party headquarters on Monday and had arrested several…
TANZANIA’s information minister Nape Nnauye has been removed from his post following an outcry over comments he made suggesting that…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has warned protesters that they will be “playing with fire” if they press ahead with plans…
SUDAN’s de facto leader has received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, cementing a rapprochement after an…
MOROCCAN opposition figure and former minister Mohamed Ziane has been sentenced to five years in prison while serving a three-year…
KENYA’s embattled president has announced a plan to form a new “broad-based government” following weeks of deadly anti-government protests sparked…
ZAMBIA’s President Hakinde Hichilema has taken the extraordinary step of firing the entire board of the country’s corruption-busting body, after…
KENYAN President William Ruto has announced a partial cabinet after weeks of antigovernment protests. In a televised address on Friday,…
A KENYAN court has suspended a police ban on protests in the capital, stating that citizens have a right to…
RWANDA’s President Paul Kagame has smashed his own record by winning Monday’s elections with more than 99% of the vote,…
FLOODING caused by heavy rains lashing Niger since June has killed 53 people and impacted 18,000, as the west African…
KENYAN President William Ruto named Wednesday his foreign minister as “acting cabinet secretary” for all ministries, nearly a week after…
THE body of Burundi’s former president Pierre Buyoya was repatriated to his home country on Tuesday, more than three years…
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame is on course to extend his 24-year rule by another five years in a landslide victory,…
THE death toll from a car bombing at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that was packed with football fans…
KENYAN police said Monday they had arrested a suspected serial killer who had confessed to murdering 42 women including his…
POLICE in Kenya have promised a “transparent” investigation into the discovery of eight mutilated female bodies that were found dumped…