East Africa

Almost 200,000 Kenyan households, many headed by poor, rural women, have lifted themselves out of poverty using mobile money services, experts said on Thursday,...

Soldiers allied to the Western-backed Somali government said they killed seven insurgents from a faction loyal to the Islamic State group in a clash...

Ethiopia Prime Minister  Ethiopian troops killed 15 armed rebels crossing from Ethiopia's arch-rival Eritrea over the weekend, and captured more than 70, an official said...

Iranian Nationals Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi, Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe and Kenyan driver Moses Keyah Mmboga stand in the dock at the Milimani Law Courts. Photo...

United Nations officials told Reuters on Thursday that attacks on aid workers and bureaucratic interference are preventing supplies from reaching tens of thousands of...

Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan which is now a center of the country’s renewed...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is warning against risky migration from the Horn of Africa region to Yemen. According to the...

Officials in Rwanda have launched a probe into the involvement of some 20 French officials in the 1994 genocide in the country.There has been...

King Charles Wesley Mumbere. Photo Credit: BBC  The chief of the Rwenzururu kingdom in western Uganda, Charles Wesley Mumbere has been officially charged with murder...

Four independent newspaper publications have been confiscated by Sudanese security services and a private television channel ordered to close down after coverage of opposition...