East Africa

Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich has been arrested on fraud and corruption charges.Rotich and other officials have been indicted in some corrupt dealings related...

Kenya is now home to Africa's biggest wind power plant. The plant in the Marsabit County is to provide nearly a fifth of the...

South African security officials have rescued 19 Ethiopians kept against their will in a house in Johannesburg.They were rescued during a raid carried out...

Police in Kenya have announced the arrest of three persons in the capital Nairobi for possessing fake $10 million.Detectives on Thursday said the three...

Tanzania’s High Court has ruled against scrapping death penalty from the country's statute books. The penalty thus remains in the laws of Tanzania and can...

Officials of the World Health Organization have said that a fishmonger who died this week of Ebola may have carried the virus from Congo...

The Kenyan consumer and retail landscape is set for a multitude of shifts. While the country has favourable future prospects and stable consumer confidence, the...

Uganda’s government has said that it intends issuing all cows in the country with birth certificates.The government said registering all cows and their farmers...

Seven people including a U.N. peacekeeper and six civilians have been killed by unknown gunmen.They were killed in the disputed region of Abyei on...

The government of Somalia says it is institutionalizing an annual prize to honour prominent journalist Hodan Nalayeh. Nalayeh was among the 26 people killed in...