Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base northwest of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing several government soldiers, officials and the militants...
More than one million children have fled South Sudan because of escalating conflict, the United Nations says.
A similar number of children are also displaced...
Somalia’s youngest minister has been shot dead in an incident close to the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu.
The 31-year-old Abbas Abdullahi Sheik Siraji...
Several dozen British troops on Tuesday arrived in Juba, capital of South Sudan, to provide engineering and medical support to the United Nations Mission...
Almost 10,000 civil servants in Tanzania have been sacked over fake education certificates.
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said that civil servants whose names were on...
Veteran politician Raila Odinga will represent Kenya's opposition alliance in the presidential election in August, his fourth time as a presidential candidate.
His nomination was...