Category: East Africa

Mr Rusesabagina was sentenced in September 2021 over his ties to an organisation opposed to President Kagame’s rule. He denied all the charges and refused to take part in the trial that he as well as his supporters called a political sham.

The trip is part of continuing visits by senior US government officials to enhance ties with Africa amid an intense geopolitical contest with other world powers, including China and Russia.

In January, the two had recorded and released a video to the mainstream and social media, in which L/Cpl Apollo Bigirwa, 41, vented his anger, pain, desperation and curses at President Yoweri Museveni, Commander-in-Chief of the UPDF, over the treatment they had undergone in the...

During the last meeting held in Bujumbura, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi, who have bid to host crucial institutions failed to agree on the way forward as each country sought more time for consultations.

The aid mission is the first in an airlift announced last Saturday by the European Union to help the beleaguered city.

Marie Dzedza has lost hope of leaving a displaced people's camp and returning to her village in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri, where rebel violence is surging while regional attention focuses on a conflict in a neighbouring territory.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday sacked the foreign minister — less than a week after the dismissal of the ministers of defence and interior, the president's spokesperson said — and he did not provide an explanation.

Burundi has criminalised homosexuality since 2009 with a prison sentence of up to two years if found guilty.

The sources said the assailants were believed to be members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group based in East DRC that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and wages frequent deadly raids on villages.

Eleven years ago, a documentary catapulted the name Joseph Kony onto the global stage. The controversial film ‘Kony 2012’ told the story of a Ugandan warlord whose forces are believed by the United Nations (UN) to be responsible for more than 100,000 deaths, abduction of...