Category: East Africa

Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) confirmed that its plane which was scheduled to fly to Mbeya experienced an engine problem mid-air and had to detour back to the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Salaam for an emergency landing.

<p>This was revealed by Haiti's Office of the Prime Minister on Sunday which said that Henry will, after attending the 46th Ordinary Meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of State and Government in Guyana, visit Nairobi. The meeting will end on Wednesday.</p>

Red Tabara has been fighting Burundi's government from bases in Congo since 2015.

“The EAC has the weakest and least developed peace and security architecture, compared to its sister regional economic communities or the African Union,” said Donald Deya, CEO of Arusha-based Pan African Lawyers Union.

The EastAfrican has learnt that the Federal Government of Somalia pondered the impact of the looming exit of Atmis and lodged the request in December last year in New York, for the establishment of a new mission as a post-transition protection force for the local...

President Kiir’s first stop was in Kigali in efforts to deescalate the conflict in the Eastern DRC that has intensified since the withdrawal of the EAC Regional Forces (EACRF), whose mandate expired late last year. 

But the main victims, and weapons, in this have often been refugees. The victims though are sometimes also the pawns in this war where parties change often just like interests.

The fighting, in a war that has lasted decades, has increased the risk of an all-out conflict between Congo and Rwanda that could suck in neighbours and regional forces including South Africa, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.

This is according to a report by Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.

The rumour is echoed by civil society figures and some former ministers, who claim that the Ugandan army is playing a double game: on the one hand, it is supporting the DRC army in a war against the Allied Democratic Forces, while on the other...