Category: East Africa

This week, military chiefs from the EAC troop-contributing countries met in Arusha to assess the departure programme after their mandate ended formally on December 8. They agreed for a month-long drawdown, hoping for an official handover to incoming troops from the Southern Africa Development Cooperation...

The global Anti-Money Laundering/Combating of the Financing of Terrorism (AMF/CFT) grey list comprises countries with enforcement weaknesses and are subject to intense monitoring to upgrade their compliance ratings.

Bunyoni, whose trial opened three months ago, was prime minister from mid-2020 until September 2022 when he was fired, days after President Evariste Ndayishimiye had warned of a "coup" plot against him.

Leaders of the Igad member states are meeting to correct initial strategies meant to end the war, which Burhan had initially rejected and threatened to quit the bloc.

Over 250 SSUDCOM troops exited through Goma International Airport becoming the second contingent to withdraw. Kenya has already withdrawn 300 troops.

The UK leader's position looked increasingly vulnerable after Robert Jenrick said he had resigned due to "strong disagreements with the direction" of the government's policy on immigration.

The country adopted one of the world's harshest laws against homosexuality in May, triggering criticism from rights groups, the United Nations and Western powers.

Tshisekedi’s first term has been defined by three major factors: questions over the legitimacy of his 2019 election victory, violence in Eastern DRC and the state of the country’s economy.

In May, the oil-rich region staged its first direct polls in more than half a century during local council elections, a move hailed by international partners as historic. 

The new rules are contained in a five-point plan unveiled by Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly to curb immigration, which he says is "too high".