East Africa

Fighting between Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region and breakaway Somaliland has killed dozens of soldiers, according to a witness and a military commander who spoke of a “hellish” outbreak of violence.

Talks in Ethiopia to revive South Sudan’s failed 2015 peace pact and end the country’s civil war broke up on Wednesday without a deal, mediators said, potentially prolonging a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.

The death toll from the cyclone that hit Somaliland has now reached over 50, according to government officials in the self-declared east African nation.

A suicide car bomber from Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab hit a military convoy outside Mogadishu on Tuesday, causing an unknown number of deaths, a police officer and the group’s spokesman told Reuters.

Somaliland has been hit by tropical cyclone, Sagar which was caused by heavy rains over the weekend leading to the death of at least 15 people.

Over 400 public officials are to be questioned by Kenyan investigators over a reported $100 million theft case at the country’s National Youth Service (NYS).

Some 1,000 Ethiopian nationals kept in various detention centers in Saudi Arabia are to be released following an agreement between Ethiopia and the Gulf state.

Lecturers in Kenya’s public universities have announced an end to their strike which has lasted more than two months over low salaries.

Gunmen have killed the Ethiopian director of Dangote, a leading cement manufacturing company in Africa.

The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has signed a new law that criminalizes fake news and online bullying as part of efforts to fight cyber-crime.