East Africa

Ethiopia's parliament has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the rubbish dump collapse in the capital, Addis Ababa, as recovery...

Kenya’s super rich in search of a second home are likely to make the investment outside the country with most preferring to buy the...

Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew onboard, a Somali official said on Tuesday, the first time they have successfully...

Public service doctors have removed a contentious clause barring them from private practice in a document filed in court yesterday.

South Sudanese rebels have kidnapped eight locals working for a U.S. charity and are demanding aid deliveries as ransom, a military spokesman said on...

Hundreds of soldiers went on strike in the Somali capital on Sunday, blocking roads and forcing businesses to close in protest over unpaid salaries,...

A car bomb near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital killed at least 13 people on Monday, police and the emergency medical services said, hours after a man was killed by a blast as he tried to ram through a checkpoint.

Doctors in Kenya have denied claims by the government that they had called off their work boycott. The government stated the doctors had resumed work, effectively ending the over three-month boycott.

The party of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has sacked 12 senior members, demoted six, warned four others and one pardoned a day to its Sunday congress for suspicion of being saboteurs.

At least 48 people were killed and 28 others injured after a landslide at a major rubbish dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.