Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN said Sunday, the latest such attack in the country suffering a famine blamed on a brutal civil war.
The United States warned South Sudan's government on Thursday that preventing humanitarian aid workers from reaching parts of the war-torn state that are suffering famine could "amount to deliberate starvation tactics."
Police in Uganda say they have made some arrests in connection with the murder of the country's deputy inspector general of police, Andrew Felix Kaweesi
The doctors union has written to the Medical Association of Tanzania (MAT), asking it to delay the deployment of its members to Kenya by at least two months.
Somalia's new prime minister named a 26-strong cabinet on Tuesday, including a former foreign affairs chief as finance minister and a BBC journalist as the country's top diplomat.
