East Africa

Exit Ngirente, enter Nsengiyumva: Kagame readies for Ca...

Rwanda’s President Kagame has replaced Prime Minister Ngirente with Justin Nseng...

Makerere, Mbarara universities are falling behind. Here...

Uganda’s public universities face a funding crisis, leaving medical students und...

Congo conflict reaches decisive stage for Kinshasa, Kig...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 move closer to peace with a new dea...

In rebel-held Goma, an uneasy calm and business unusual

Insecurity has been replaced by mistrust and paranoia, it’s hard to know who pos...

Ethiopia forex inflows jump to record $32 billion

National Bank of Ethiopia Governor Mamo Mihretu attributes inflows growth to gov...

Burundi holds senatorial elections

The district councillors elected during Burundi's June 5 elections went to the p...

Mohamud-Deni row flares up as Puntland seizes Mogadishu...

Puntland leader Said Abdullahi Deni and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud h...

Kenya’s debt costs to remain high due to local borrowin...

Kenya has one of the world’s highest debt-to-revenue ratios, spending a third of...

Banda, Mutharika among 19 challenging Chakwera in Malaw...

In total, there are six independent presidential aspirants and 14 candidates bac...

From docks to homes, shops: Juba importers leave shippe...

Shippers at the Port of Mombasa have been forced to repackage their goods destin...

Health experts meet in Uganda for HIV, hepatitis B, syp...

Africa’s first high-level conference on ending mother-to-child transmission of H...

Why Tanzanian brewer sold troubled subsidiary at $3.8m ...

Despite this, TBL declared a dividend payout of Tsh537 ($0.2) per share, amounti...

Swedish embassy heads to top court in labour dispute wi...

The embassy challenged the jurisdiction of the court to determine the case, argu...

WHO raises alarm over spreading chikungunya virus

WHO says the virus is now spreading to countries such as Madagascar, Somalia and...

Hemingways acquires another Maasai Mara luxury camp

Richard’s River Camp is an exclusive 18-bed safari lodge located in the Mara Nor...

Tullow Oil signs $120m Kenyan assets sale deal to Gulf ...

The transaction involves the transfer of 100 percent of the shares in Tullow Ken...