Category: East Africa

The quartet, named Khadra Mohamed Isse, Aisha Muhyadin Mohamud, Zahra Hussein Isse and Naima Farah Sheikhdoon were accused of assisting Al Shabaab leaders in Lower Shabelle region, south of the Somali capital Mogadishu. 

Uganda’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem said the move by the World Bank was hypocritical. He accused the Western entities of being quick to lecture vulnerable countries about democracy, only to turn around and punish them when they do what doesn’t suit...

The attack was by hackers who identified themselves as Anonymous Sudan. The CS, however, said that no data was lost during the attack and that the government was working around the clock to resolve the problem and secure the platform.

The outage of M-Pesa services paralysed operations across many sectors including collection of revenue such as parking fees by counties, putting into question Kenya’s readiness for a full shift towards digital payments.

Mr Karega was expected to take up the post after his appointment by President Paul Kagame in March, to replace Dieudonné Sebashongore. But after four months of suspense, Belgium has rejected him, marking a turning point in the diplomatic relations between the two countries connected...

The incident on the e-citizen portal, which provides more than 5,000 government services including e-visas, was said to be a result of hacking although officials said no data had been lost.

Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar told a committee of MPs that Somalia was not in any talks with Kenya to resolve the dispute.

The two presidents met on the sidelines of a conference on human capital in the Tanzanian commercial capital Dar es salaam.

The Second Russia-Africa Summit has come four years after the first, largely due to Covid-19. But it has come amid a new geopolitical perspective including Western sanctions on Russia government departments, officials and entities with ties to the government owing to the war.

But President Yoweri Museveni’s move to criticise the lethargy of former Congolese president Joseph Kabila in dealing with the terrorist group in the past elicited a storm this week.