East Africa

Mugabe’s son escapes jail after $300 fine for cannabis ...

Robert Mugabe Junior pleaded guilty asked for leniency, saying he was a single f...

Why 300m Africans have neither bank nor mobile money ac...

Over 300 million African adults lack bank or mobile money accounts, blocked by c...

Mwigulu Nchemba, Samia’s new right-hand man

President Samia’s appointment of Mwigulu Nchemba as Tanzania’s new prime ministe...

Kenya assures Museveni as demands for sea access grow l...

Museveni: "That ocean belongs to me; it is my ocean. I am entitled to it. In the...

Sudan’s war escalates as RSF advances east

Sudan’s civil war intensifies as RSF shifts focus east, displacing tens of thous...

Zambia’s Hichilema faces rising dissent after Samia event

The unrest reflects rising frustration with the 63-year-old leader who won a lan...

Kenyan jurist Okowa elected judge of International Cour...

Okowa won the ICJ seat after three Security Council and four General Assembly vo...

200 Kenyans fighting for Russia in Ukraine war

More than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongsi...

Bodies of two Kenyans killed in Tanzania still unaccoun...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assured Kenyans that they are following up o...

Ruto pleads with EAC partners to reduce trade barriers

Non-tariff barriers within the East African Community have risen nearly fivefold...

Faye, Sonko tensions resurface as IMF talks drag on

Conflicting statements from Senegal’s president and ruling party over coalition ...

Nigeria’s political headache at home, a diplomatic burd...

Trump warns of “guns-a-blazing” action over alleged Christian killings in Nigeri...

End of a monarchy? Rwanda to bury last surviving child ...

Princess Speciose Mukabayojo, sister to Rwanda’s last two monarchs and long exil...

Kagame: I’m not grooming my daughter to succeed me

President Kagame’s succession has always been a complex subject for the establis...

South Africa's Vodacom inks internet deal with Starlink

Vodacom has been seeking to close connectivity gaps across the continent through...

Tanzania frees Chadema leaders on bail

Tanzania’s post-election turmoil deepens as top Chadema leaders walk out of jail...

Diaspora’s search for cheap remittances is ending, but ...

Fintech is lowering remittance costs for Africans abroad, but awareness and trus...

EU mission seizes Iranian vessel used in Somali pirate ...

EU naval forces seize pirate-used dhow off Somalia, securing tanker and disrupti...

Kenya to open embassies in Vatican City, Denmark and Vi...

Cabinet approved their establishment as part of foreign policy realignments.

Justice ministers, AGs get 60 days to pick Comesa court...

Comesa Court of Justice gives 60 days to fill a vacant judgeship amid procedural...

Unpermitted: The plight of migrant content moderators i...

Nigerian content moderators accuse outsourcing giant Teleperformance of leaving ...

Airlines caught between rival Somalia and Somaliland tr...

Airlines flying to Somalia face conflicting directives as Mogadishu and Hargeisa...

US Vice President JD Vance cancels planned visit to Kenya

The visit was expected to reaffirm Washington’s growing engagement with East Afr...

Will Nyerere’s five-decades-old party survive current c...

CCM—long accustomed to uncontested electoral dominance—is facing mounting pressu...

French court frees ex-president Sarkozy from jail pendi...

He did not attend the hearing in person but was taking part via video link from ...

Sudan ruling council: Why RSF Darfur campaign is exterm...

Sudan’s Chargé d’Affaires says that the RSF are systematically targeting unarmed...

East Africa mulls pension-backed mega funds for infrast...

East African nations to pool $400 billion in pensions to fund infrastructure and...

East Africa mulls mega funds for infrastructure

East African nations to pool $400 billion in pensions to fund infrastructure and...

Kalonzo now rivals Ruto in Raila’s orphaned stronghold

Wiper leader stages a symbolic pilgrimage to Odinga’s home, courting the Nyanza ...

Region mulls mega funds for infrastructure

East African nations to pool $400 billion in pensions to fund infrastructure and...

East Africa counts huge losses from Tanzania’s post-pol...

Post-election turmoil spreads regionally, disrupting transport corridors and hit...

Activists Bob Njagi, Nicholas Oyoo freed after diplomat...

They were released and returned to Kenya late on Friday night.

Why Africa’s top banks want bad loans securitised

African banks push regulators to open capital markets for turning bad loans into...

New cool mayoralty: Uganda’s greatest gift to New York

Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York signals a bold new blueprint for Africa’s rest...

Why Kenya is valuing public stock in accrual accounting...

Kenya is racing to tally and value every item in its public stores as it builds ...

Uganda is on track for $4bn refinery project

The project has entered a new phase as officials finalise key contracts and push...

Old wine in new wineskin? Composition of Tanzania’s new...

Tanzania’s new parliament convenes amid a disputed election and a nation still r...

EAC slips back to trade deficit after Q1 boom

EAC’s brief export boom has collapsed, with the region sliding into a deep trade...

Tanzania charges 98 youth with treason over demos

98 mostly young people were charged with treason in Dar es Salaam after violent ...

Acacia survival tactics: Fight back or play dead

Growing climate stress is pushing Africa’s iconic acacias to their limits, expos...

A promising return to Steven King’s terrifying universe

“IT: Welcome to Derry” delivers a shockingly cinematic, terrifying start worthy ...

Pirates board tanker off Somalia in biggest escalation ...

Pirates boarded a Malta-flagged tanker off Somalia, but the crew secured themsel...

East Africa’s art stars shine at record $230,000 Nairob...

East African masterpieces stole the show at Nairobi’s Art Auction, with collecto...

ICC confirms war crimes charges against Uganda’s Kony

The ICC has confirmed 39 charges against fugitive LRA leader Joseph Kony, cleari...

How Eacop sponsors finally got $5bn financing sewn up

After years of lender exits and activist pressure, the Uganda–Tanzania oil pipel...

Safaricom Ethiopia narrows losses by 53pc

The reduction in losses at Safaricom Ethiopia signals a turnaround in the compan...

Somaliland and Puntland unite against a unique common p...

Somaliland and Puntland have stunned observers by signing a rare security deal, ...

Sudan’s footballers find new fields

Sudan’s exiled football clubs are keeping a nation’s identity alive as war force...

Film on controversial activist Stella Nyanzi excels

A fearless Ugandan documentary on Stella Nyanzi’s resistance has stunned Europe,...

Africa hit the hardest by global investment slump

Africa has seen the sharpest drop in foreign investment as global uncertainty ke...