The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that he has no problem with the decision of the country’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga to withdraw from the repeat presidential election.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged the people to spend more time working, not praying. The president said the people's fundamental mission on earth was to work and invent ideas and solutions that would help them have dominion over all creatures.
Hundreds of supporters of the Kenyan opposition political party, the National Super Alliance (Nasa) on Friday staged another demonstration in parts of the country as they demand changes to the country's electoral commission staff ahead of the October 26 re-run of presidential election.
Islamic State fighters killed one civilian and injured another and a police colonel in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, police said on Wednesday.
Grenades were thrown at the homes of two outspoken Members of Parliament in Uganda following their opposition to the scrapping of presidential age limit proposed by the ruling party, National Resistance Movement.
Authorities at Kenya's University of Nairobi on Tuesday asked students to vacate the institute as they order the closure of the school indefinitely over security concerns.
One person has been reported by local media in Kenya to have died on Monday after police fired teargas into opposition supporters in Kenya who were demonstrating against the country's electoral commission.
