East Africa News

Somalia's armed forces on Monday captured a strategic coastal town that Al-Shabaab jihadists had held for more than a decade, top...

At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded Sunday in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic...

Intra-regional trade within the East African Community (EAC) is on an upward trajectory, standing at US$10.17 billion in September 2022....

Beniam Yetbarek didn't even know his cousin was alive when the phone rang on Christmas Eve, and a voice he...

M23 rebels have agreed to continue an "orderly withdrawal" from conquered territory in the restive east of the Democratic Republic...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called Thursday on ordinary people to help flush out members of the Al-Shabaab jihadist group...

Somalia will soon become the latest Horn of Africa nation to join the East Africa Community (EAC) as member states...

Uganda said on Monday it was expecting to declare an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late last...

Families embraced and wept in emotional reunions Wednesday after the first commercial flight in 18 months between Ethiopia's capital city...

Few in the giant displacement camps north of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are enjoying the feasting and...

President William Ruto  wants the international community to quickly intervene in the ongoing new conflict in South Sudan. Ruto, in...

DR Congo's army called an M23 rebel withdrawal from a strategic town near the eastern city of Goma a "sham" on...

A 2019 Ethiopian Airlines plane crash which killed 157 people was caused by a flight software failure as suspected, the...

DR Congo's M23 rebels on Friday met soldiers from a regional military force to hand over a strategic frontline position...

If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England's south-eastern shores each year,...

Ethiopia's government and Tigray's rebel forces have agreed to create a joint monitoring body to ensure a peace deal to...

Ethiopia's allies in the Tigray war have unleashed a campaign of looting, rape and expulsions, residents and humanitarian workers in...

Uganda announced Thursday that it had received shipments of two more trial vaccines to test against a strain of Ebola...

M23 rebel activity in volatile eastern DR Congo is threatening mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park and leaving the endangered...

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the United States on Tuesday in blaming climate change for major...

Sitting in a small courtyard in Goma, eastern DR Congo, a 55-year-old Tutsi woman joked darkly that she would be...

A section of Ugandan health workers, members of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) knelt before President Yoweri Museveni asking him...

Kenya will help South Sudan move goods from Mombasa with ease. Moreover, President William Ruto while speaking in Juba after...

An Air Tanzania plane has been seized in the Netherlands after a Swedish firm won a $165 million award against...

Tanzanian prosecutors have reportedly dropped murder charges against the 24 Maasai pastoralists accused of killing a police officer during protests in June.  ...

Tanzanian prosecutors have reportedly dropped murder charges against the 24 Maasai pastoralists accused of killing a police officer during protests in June.  ...

A cross-border anti-female genital mutilation network has reported that there are widespread cross-border procedures being carried out in grazing fields...

President William Ruto and former President Uhuru Kenyatta will Monday, November 28 share a platform in Nairobi to discuss the...

In the chaotic displacement camps near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, war victims recount brutal stories of rape...

M23 rebels were still fighting and advancing on one front of their offensive in east of the Democratic Republic of...