East Africa

Kenya's president has opened the country's largest infrastructure project since independence.The $3bn Chinese-backed railway project eventually will link a large part of East Africa...

Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted...

The Vatican said on Tuesday it had scrapped tentative plans for Pope Francis to make a visit this year to South Sudan, which has...

Police shot dead one person in northern Kenya's Isiolo county after a political rally attended by President Uhuru Kenyatta at which supporters of rival...

A Kenyan politician being investigated for the raids in private farms in the Laikipia region has been found dead. Thomas Minito's body was found floating...

South Sudanese pro-government forces killed at least 114 civilians in and around Yei town between July 2016 and January 2017, as well as committing...

Somalia's al Shabaab publicly cut off the right hands of two men on Thursday after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a...

Djibouti-China relations reached an all-time high this week, as representatives participated in the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The Forum, the highest profile...

Three soldiers died when a car bomb exploded while they were trying to defuse it on Wednesday in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and...

Kenya has backed away from plans to impose a ban on second-hand clothes in a move officials say will leave local textile dealers at...