East Africa

Somalia’s Islamist group Al Shabaab set off a suicide car bomb at a security checkpoint about 15 km (nine miles) outside the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, the group’s spokesman and a police official told Reuters.

Kenya's High Court has ordered immigration officials to ensure that the opposition politician Miguna Miguna returns to the country after he was deported to Canada this month.

The United Nations mission in South Sudan says it has recalled a 46-member peacekeeping police unit after some members allegedly paid local women living in a protection camp for sex.

An opposition MP in Tanzania has been jailed five months after being found guilty of defaming the country's President John Magufuli.

Ghanaian officials have announced the arrest of a Tanzanian woman for carrying narcotic drugs with street value of $70,000.

The United States military says it has carried out a drone strike against al-Shabaab extremists in Somalia, killing three "terrorists."

The two political activists in Kenya prevented from travelling abroad after the government said it has not been formally alerted by the court to reinstate their passports have now been allowed to travel.

Officials in Malawi have announced that Cholera cases in the country have reached over 500 with the number of deaths now reaching 8.

Protests and publications that could spark violence have been banned in Ethiopia during a state of emergency imposed since last Friday which would last for six months.

A state of emergency has been declared in Ethiopia just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation.