East Africa

A Kenyan high court has ordered the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to include the Presidential candidate of a smaller political party in the October 26 repeat presidential poll.

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.

Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga on Tuesday announced his decision to withdraw from the October 26 presidential re-run election.

Gunmen on Tuesday attacked a convoy of University workers in Kenya killing two persons in what local media described as an ambush.

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.

The family of a dead man buried with $55,000 to ‘bribe’ God to enter heaven has decided to exhume his body and retrieve the money.

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.