East Africa

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Somalia Tuesday morning on his first field visit since he took office in January.Mr Guterres is in...

A disaffected South Sudanese army general who quit his position last month announced on Monday that he had formed a new anti-government rebel group, underscoring mounting resistance to the rule of incumbent president Salva Kiir.

Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a drought, the prime minister...

A British man was shot dead in northern Kenya on Sunday at a private ranch in the Laikipia area, two of the man's neighbours...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered the confiscation on Friday of passports belonging to foreign employees of an Indian infrastructure company managing a water project that is running late.

A ban on Eritrean refugees working in Ethiopia is hampering efforts to reduce illegal “secondary” migration, with tens of thousands risking violence and drowning...

Some 1.5 million refugees have fled fighting and famine in South Sudan to neighboring countries, half of them to Uganda, and thousands more are leaving daily, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.

Days after Somali’s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo declared a national disaster due to severe drought in the country, the leader has appealed for urgent food aid.

Kenyan soldiers killed 57 Islamist militants in fighting in southern Somalia on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.Kenyan troops under the African Union command used...

Mediators in the ongoing doctor strike in Kenya told the court on Thursday that parties conducting the negotiations failed to reach an agreement.