Category: East Africa

Instead, they spoke of providing “strategic guidance on the deployment” of what is to be known as the SADC Mission in the DRC (SAMIDRC) meant to restore peace and security in the country, one of its member states.

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Coming about a month following the first Cabinet shuffle of the president’s tenure on October 4, the State House move was officially explained as a routine government reorganisation.

When he was barely a teenager, Kenyan goatherder Lisoka Lesasuyan lost both arms to an unexploded bomb while crossing a field used in joint military exercises with the British army.

He was the only survivor of a night-time military operation on Tuesday against a unit of the feared Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) that killed six other fighters, the army said.

DRC Information and Communication Minister Patrick Muyaya said the peace they hoped for in the country’s troubled east is taking too long to be realised and “some Congolese are now questioning why we even asked to join the EAC”.

In an updated travel advisory for Tanzania, the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) on October 30 warned against "all but essential travel to any area within 20 kilometres of the Tanzanian border with the Cabo Delgado Province of northern Mozambique."

The National Assembly Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations said some KRA officials have been taking advantage of the directive to harass tourists, hence giving the country bad publicity. The committee chairman Nelson Koech said Kenya instead be working on how to grow the number...

Charles said he wished to "deepen my own understanding of these wrongs" during his four-day state visit to Kenya with Queen Camilla, but also to bolster "a modern partnership of equals facing today's challenges".

On Tuesday, Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) Deputy Spokesperson Col Deo Akiiki disclosed that the killed militants belong to the IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and were traveling by boat on the lake shared by Uganda and DR Congo.