Category: East Africa

According to a new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Burundi’s rise, mostly since 2021, is a result of Bujumbura accepting all travellers from Africa into the country either on visa-free travel (all East Africans) or visas on arrival (all other Africans). Burundi does...

A major shakeup in the Tanzanian government looks imminent as President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who is also the national chairperson of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), seeks to get rid of “detractors” and “languid” individuals ahead of the 2025 elections.

In a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Eric, Samuel, Tuyisenge and Florence recounted walking for miles to flee a horrific rebel attack on their village.

According to the ministry officials, this is first batch of one of the three candidate vaccines against the Sudan Ebola virus.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday he was "appalled" by the massacre of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and added that he plans to visit the country next year.

Thousands of tiny makeshift shelters hug the road leading north out of Goma, a symptom of the vast humanitarian crisis gripping DR Congo's turbulent east.

The train pulled out of Dire Dawa station with a creak and disappeared into the pre-dawn gloom, the lights that once illuminated its decades-old carriages having stopped working long ago.

While addressing the business community in Bujumbura during a tax payers’ day on Tuesday, President Ndayishimiye said that the “so-called investors” are not contributing towards the country’s development.

All eyes are now on Tanzania’s Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) secretariat as the country’s ruling party holds its general meeting, which will elect top leaders, followed by subsequent appointment of party executives.

This was one the resolutions made in the final communique read out during the close of the week-long meeting at the Safari Park Hotel.