Category: East Africa

<p class="align--justify">An Audit Commission report prepared by the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) for the year ended June 30, 2021 indicates that the bloc continues to grapple with various challenges blamed on poor funding due to delayed or non-remittance of funds by partner states.</p>

M23 rebels have cut major supply routes to Goma, eastern DR Congo, sending prices in the city surging and sparking fears that a future offensive will cripple its economy.

Dr Tedros said that Eritrean soldiers killed his uncle in a village in the Tigray region along with more than 50 residents.

At least 166 civilians have died in clashes in South Sudan's far north over the past four months, the United Nations said Wednesday, urging the government to act swiftly to end the violence.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday shrugged off a soaring death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo's east, distancing his nation from mounting bloodshed on Rwanda's doorstep.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday threw out an appeal by Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), against his conviction for war crimes.

Videos showing the lifeless bodies of victims of the heavy rains have gone viral in Kinshasa.

The ADF rebels were attempting to launch attacks and raid villages in Ntoroko District in the western part of the country.

This was revealed in a communiqué signed by M23 spokesperson Laurence Kanyuka.

Floods caused by heavy rains swept parts of DR Congo's capital Kinshasa on Tuesday, in one case killing nine people when their home collapsed, an AFP reporter saw. The AFP reporter saw the bodies of nine members of a family who had died after the...