Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as president on Friday, becoming the first female head of state …
ZANU PF’s progressive development policies that resonate with the public and the party’s open door policy is attracting hordes of …
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications …
According to Tanzania’s Constitution, Vice President Hassan, 61, should assume the presidency for the remainder of the five-year term that …
MDC Alliance MPs Tendai Biti, Willias Madzimure and Settlement Chikwinya and three other party legislators have all been recalled from …
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stated that one of her mission to Nigeria …
Several African countries have banned the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, citing possible side effects. The move follows similar measures …
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan …
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has approved the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for use …
The United Nations is appealing for $1 billion to help 6.4 million of Nigeria’s most vulnerable people, including two million …
At least 1.4 million people are facing acute hunger in Kenya, double the number reported in 2020, a report by …
Four Tanzanian opposition politicians have fled to Kenya, citing safety concerns, even as President John Pombe Magufuli remains out of …
South Africa this week marked the anniversary of its first Covid-19 death, with known fatalities directly attributed to the pandemic …
The Ugandan opposition politician and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi – known as Bobi Wine – has been released without …
Human Rights Watch has called on Uganda to investigate cases of enforced disappearances, determine the whereabouts and status of the …
Police in Tanzania have arrested four people on suspicion of spreading rumours on social media that President John Magufuli is …
A few days after Tanzania’s Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa responded to speculations about the health of President John Magufuli, the …
There was drama at the Narok Law Courts as attendees scrambled to catch a glimpse of a pangolin that the …
Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, arrived in Nigeria on a 4-day official visit aimed at enhancing trade …
A number of immigrants in Makhanda say they have been denied health care because their permits to be in South …
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, says Nigerians in the Diaspora have no right sending petitions …
The new qualification requirements for admission into teacher training colleges have locked out thousands of Form Four leavers, the Nation …
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says calls for unity in the country should not unsettle top Zanu PF officials, but …
Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has cancelled a planned tour of the country’s south-western region, amid mounting concerns over President …
President Uhuru Kenyatta has banned all political gatherings for the next 30 days from midnight Friday, in measures meant to …
The dramatic resignation of Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi after he was embroiled in a sex scandal has exposed fissures …
Gunmen stormed a college in the Mando town of Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna State and abducted several students early Friday, police …
King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in hospital where he was being treated for …
Tanzania’s Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports, Innocent Bashungwa, has warned the country’s media to desist from using “rumours” …
Rwandan President Paul Kagame was vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, becoming the first leader in East Africa to receive the …
Climate change activists and Buganda Kingdom officials have rallied residents of Kigungu and Ndese landing sites in Entebbe municipality to …
An apparent passer-by has been killed in Johannesburg when South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse a group of …
Global Human rights movement Amnesty International-Zimbabwe has pleaded with the government of Zimbabwe to establish the whereabouts of journalist-cum-activist Itai …
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under renewed international pressure to account for missing journalist-cum-activist Itai Dzamara who was last seen …
The government has vowed to crack down on illegal fishing in Lake Nakuru following the deaths of two young men …
Nigerian soldiers stopped traffic along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway for three hours as they engaged Boko Haram terrorists in a shootout. …
Kenya has with immediate effect banned the importation of maize from two neighbouring countries including Tanzania and Uganda In a …
Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has urged Christians in Nigeria to stop being sectional, and take the moral high ground. Pope …
At least 20 people have been killed and more than 600 wounded in a huge series of explosions at a …
Alicia Wallace is the cofounder and COO of Kazi, a social business working to create thousands of jobs by training …
On February 7, 2021, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced a confirmed …
The Executive has bowed to pressure from Parliament and allowed MPs to make amendments to the Kenya-UK trade deal. However, …
Three years and three months after Steinhoff auditor Deloitte refused to sign off on the company’s accounts, triggering the resignation …
Despite the order given security agents to crackdown on bandits disturbing the peace of Zamfara State, gunmen suspected to be …
Four Ethiopians working with foreign journalists in the northern Tigray region have been released without charges, an official and media …
President Mnangagwa paid tribute to former Vice President Kembo Mohadi, who resigned from Government but remains Vice President of the …
One person was feared dead and others reportedly injured when a mob invaded the venue of the reunion of the …
A civilian, Emmanuel Odaudu, has spent no fewer than eight months in the Nigerian Military Special Investigation Bureau underground cell …
