East Africa

A Kenyan court on Monday declared unconstitutional a section of the Penal Code that criminalised some aspects of libel and defamation, terming it an...

South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir on Monday stated that soldiers who rape women must be shot.During a visit to the town of Yei he...

Presidential candidates in Somalia rounded off campaigning with an unprecedented televised debate on Monday, dominated by issues of corruption, security and U.S. President Donald...

Al Shabaab militants in Somalia publicly beheaded four men accused of spying for the country's Western-backed government, the United States and neighboring Kenya, residents...

Ugandan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Okello Oryem. Photo Credit: Reuters Imposing an external "trusteeship" government on South Sudan to try to end a...

Animal carcasses littered the fields and stench of dead animals pervaded the air in Kenya’s Marsabit County on Wednesday (February 1), the result of...

Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked a police camp in Kenya's northeast border county of Mandera.Over 20 gunmen are said to have raided the Administration...

Fresh clashes broke out around South Sudan's second-largest city of Malakal on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman and a government official said, the latest turn...

Kenya's Foreign minister Amina Mohamed (right) during the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa. Photo Credit: Zacharias...

From left, Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, Gulam Hussein, Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami and Baktash Akasha Abdalla follow proceedings in their case on December 13, 2016. Photo...