East Africa

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.

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...

At least 29 primary schoolchildren, two teachers and a driver died in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday. The grisly accident occurred at...

The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday he would push Ethiopia to allow his agency to investigate rights abuses during months of...

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...

Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned one man to death and shot dead another on Monday after both were accused of raping a...

An Ethiopian court has sentenced two people for planning a terror attack on the country in 2014. The two are said to have links...

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...