Category: East Africa

The injured were rushed to nearby medical facilities.

And so it seems a divided opposition is easier to conquer, at least in Uganda where leaders of the country’s once biggest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), this week shredded each other in public, exposing deep mistrust, lack of campaign support in...

<p>The President, whose 10-month-old administration had looked shaken by the previous anti-government demonstrations, said on Thursday the police had ‘professionally’ handled the situation despite video footage of presumed security officers in plain clothes executing a protester or teargassing slum families inside their homes.</p>

The Henley Passport Index Report released on Wednesday further shows that the number of countries that Kenyans can visit without a visa, or obtain one on arrival, increased to 76 from 73 in January.

The blast occurred on Wednesday evening in Lubwe Sud in North Kivu province's Rutshuru territory.

These routes have also been used by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in their gradual return to their homes following a ceasefire between the rebel group M23 and FARDC, the Congolese army.

This time, the Nation has established that the visiting United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai cancelled two scheduled meetings with Kuria to discuss the trade ties between the two countries.

Instead, she directed media inquiries to Kuria’s appointing authority.

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has held several rounds of protests since March against the government, alarming the international community which has joined calls for a political solution after earlier demonstrations left more than a dozen dead.

"Total death Toll - 403," Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha told AFP in a message, following the latest round of exhumations in the Shakahola forest, where cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie allegedly urged followers to starve to death.