East Africa

Ugandan soldiers sexually abused at least 13 girls and women in the Central African Republic while the troops were helping to hunt for warlord...

The United Nations said Monday that $1.4 billion was needed this year alone to help the nearly two million people who have fled war...

At least 6 people were killed and nine others injured when rival clans clashed in Central Somalia, local elders said on Saturday. An online media...

South Sudan's ousted army chief Paul Malong returned to the capital Juba on Saturday, saying he had no intention of staging a revolt against...

Seven South Sudanese opposition groups, including that of rebel leader Riek Machar, said on Saturday they had agreed to work closely in their bid...

Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map towards building a functional national...

The UN is seeking a further 900 million dollars this year for Somalia, where more than six million people need humanitarian assistance and 275,000...

The presidential bid of 35-year-old Diane Shima Rwigara was tested after she declared her intention to contest in Rwanda’s August general elections as the...

The president of South Sudan has replaced army chief Paul Malong with a general who is a member of an ethnic minority, the defence...

Tanzania has shut down one of the country's largest banking institutions, FBME, following charges of aiding the finance of terrorism by US authorities. A statement from the central bank said it had revoked its licence. It was accused in the US of, among other things, money laundering and facilitating the payment of thousands of dollars from a financier of the Lebanese Hezbollah Islamist militants.