Category: East Africa

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<p class="align--justify">While appearing before Principal Magistrate Agnes Mwangi at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi, James Sengo Nestroy was ordered to pay a Ksh30 million ($241,000) fine or in default serve the prison term for charges of economic exploitation and resisting police arrests.</p>

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) released on January 25 says that African governance has mostly remained static since 2019, despite having made forward leaps in years from 2012.

Catholics in DR Congo, where the church has long played a dominant role, are hoping Pope Francis will urge clean and fair polls when he visits next week.

Lissu, a leader of the opposition Chadema party, arrived aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight which landed at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam Wednesday afternoon amid tight police security.

A team of experts from the partner states will be in Somalia from January 25 to February 3, 2023.

At least 17 people were wounded Wednesday when a bomb exploded in a market in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said, as the region continues to be plagued by insecurity.  

But while the exact airspace in which it was shot at was unspecified, Rwanda said it had taken "defensive measures" against what it said was Congolese aggression.

The end of January 2023 will mark five years since the African Union Free Movement of Persons protocol was signed by the African Union. A parallel initiative to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, it was designed to reduce barriers to Africans crossing African borders....

Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta Wednesday appealed for an end to violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose mounting problems have sparked diplomatic tensions between the DRC and Rwanda.