Category: East Africa

But people are also taking everything to the last minute, as seen by cramming in shopping malls, traffic jams and markets.

Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko was acquitted by a magistrate for lack of evidence in a case where he was accused of defrauding the county government during his short tenure between 2018 and 2020.

This week, the Tanzania Editors’ Forum (TEF), the local lobby for heads of news outlets in the country, said it was waiting for the government to follow through on its promises, including reviewing draconian laws.

Tshala, who was also popularly known as Mamu Nationale (Mother of the Nation) and the ‘Queen of Mutuashi’, died on December 10 after a long illness.

According to Gen Abdullahi Ali Anod, the spokesman of Somalia’s Ministry of Defence, a contingent of the Somali National Army supported by local vigilantes captured Runirgoud from Al-Shabaab on Friday.

On Wednesday, Rwanda issued a statement dismissing, again, allegations that it is supporting UN-sanctioned M23 rebels in the eastern DRC.

The year 2022 was always going to be an eventful one. After nearly 10 years in power, President Uhuru Kenyatta was destined to leave office to make way for the winner of the August 2022 presidential vote. Would it be his former bitter rival turned...

The High Court in London said the deal does not violate the refugee convention or human rights laws. However, it ruled that each of the eight individual migrants cited in the case, who had arrived by boat to the UK, had been treated unlawfully.

New data prepared by the African Development Bank in collaboration with the African Union Commission show that while the EAC is generally supportive of integration and regional trade, members of the bloc have retained certain barriers on movement of people within partner states.

The details emerged from a side-lines meeting in Washington where African leaders gathered for a US-Africa Summit. Presidents Evariste Ndayishimiye, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Kenya’s William Ruto and Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan gathered for a mini Great Lakes region Summit to discuss the DRC conflicts. The...