The political and security situation in the Central African Republic was the focus for Heads of States who attended a …
The military in Chad has announced that elections will be held in 18 months’ time, following the death of President …
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, the …
The coffee species Coffea stenophylla, which bears black fruit rather than the red fruit typical of the two coffee species …
Police in Nigeria say they have freed a girl who’d been locked up in a room by her parents for …
Zimbabwe has begun releasing about 3 000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty. This is meant to reduce the threat of …
A fire broke out Sunday on Table Mountain, the iconic peak overlooking the city of Cape Town on the tip …
As reports of atrocities by fighters emerge in Tigray, women are struggling to feed their families. The World Food Programme …
The United States says Uganda’s general elections held in January were marred by ‘illegalities and irregularities. The East African country …
The African Union (AU) has announced the launch of a partnership to manufacture vaccines at five research centers to be …
The long-running dispute over Ethiopia’s mega-dam is still going nowhere. But Sudan’s prime minister has invited his Egyptian and Ethiopian …
Béatrice Munyenyezi was stripped of her US citizenship after she was convicted in 2013 – she had already spent nearly …
Civilians are fleeing into Niger Republic after gunmen attacked Damasak town, Borno state in northeast Nigeria. Reports on the ground …
The Kenyan passport is the eighth most powerful in Africa, according to new research that shows the country regaining its …
President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed all teachers and school support staff to get the Covid-19 vaccine. According to Education Cabinet …
The Ugandan government has admitted to having held more than 1,000 people who were arrested in the run-up to January’s …
The US envoy to the United Nations has called for the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia “immediately” after reports …
South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has rejected as “a sham” a request by the country’s top court to suggest what …
Amnesty International says Eritrean troops have killed three people and injured at least 19 others during an unprovoked attack on …
UN human rights experts have called on the Ugandan government to stop what they call a brutal crackdown on political …
South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced the suspension of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 jab to investigate a …
Egypt banned large groups at mosques as a cautionary measureImage caption: Egypt banned large groups at mosques as a cautionary …
President Suhulu Samia Hassan Has Met President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Special Envoy at the State House in Dar es Salaam Saturday …
Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has appeared to abandon tradition by wearing a mask. The 61-year old was spotted donning the …
The Eritrean authorities have released on bail 36 prisoners who had been in detention because of their faith. 14 of …
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has paid tribute to UK’s Prince Philip, calling him a “global icon”. He said the Commonwealth …
Ethiopian Airlines 75 years since it began commercial flights, with CEO Tewolde GebreMariam warning of ‘a serious challenge posed by …
The High Commissioner for Rwanda to the United Kingdom (UK), Yamina Karitanyi, has called on the UK to bring to …
As the climate change effect hits across Nigeria, Susan, Zainab, and other smallholder women farmers bear the brunt. Nigerian rural …
Kenya’s High Court has temporarily halted a move by the government to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps housing …
Ugandan politician Bobi Wine has taken his bulletproof luxury vehicle to the tax body offices for re-evaluation. The High Court …
East Africa’s largest referral hospital, Kenyatta in Kenya, has suspended planned surgeries for patients due to an acute shortage of …
A nurse at Kenyatta National Hospital fills a syringe from a vial of the Covid-19 Covishield vaccine, the Indian version …
A private company that imported the Sputnik V vaccine to Kenya is seeking to re-export it back to Russia. This …
Nigeria has directed its 36 states and federal capital territory to stop giving first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines once …
The humanitarian situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, remains “dire”, the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said. “While there has been substantial …
Tanzania has clarified that the lifting of a media ban announced by the country’s new president only applies to online …
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced a scientific committee to research COVID-19 in an apparent departure from the pandemic-skeptic …
For the first time, France has opened to the public key archives relating to Rwanda in the four years up …
Footage of Rwandan newlyweds and family guests forced to spend their wedding night in stadia for breaching coronavirus rules has …
Kenya has exempted tax on a donation of HIV drugs that had been in the middle of a stalemate for …
Tanzania’s new president has announced that bans slapped on a number of media outlets by her predecessor who died last …
France released a report based on two years of consultation and research of the country’s archives by a team of …
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has hinted at major changes in the country’s response to Covid-19 pandemic. At a swearing …
Kenyans have started signing an online petition asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) not to give the government any more …
Leaders of a mosque in Kenya’s coastal town of Lamu have written to a US based designer who made the …
An Ethiopian Airlines plane landed at an airport that is still under construction in Zambia, “by mistake,” a government official …
Architecture firm NUDES has released details of their proposed secondary school in Malawi, constructed from straw bales. Responding to a …
