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Rwandan authorities and several officials from governmental and non-governmental agencies have marked the launch of the 20th anniversary remembrance of victims of the genocide in the east African nation in 1994. At the ceremony in New York on Thursday, Rwanda’s… Read more ›

Top ranking government officials from Tanzania and Kenya have confirmed reports that both nations are set to deploy troops to war-torn South Sudan. Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Bernard Membe, told reporters on Thursday that the a single… Read more ›

Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has revealed that the nation’s 47 counties are under investigation for corruption. According to a report by Daily Nation, this revelation was made to the senate on Thursday by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer… Read more ›

The governments of Tanzania and China have agreed to strengthen their diplomatic ties as both nations marked 50 years of communication and co-operation with one another. Reports indicate that Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, who met with Bernard Membe, his… Read more ›

A car laden with explosives reportedly drove into a tea shop near Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency headquarters in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing 12 people, including some security officers. Several other officers and civilians are reported to have sustained… Read more ›

The East African Community (EAC) has settled on Rwanda to host the upcoming East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO). Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s Foreign Minister, and Dr. Richard Sezibera, the EAC’s Secretary General, are reported to have signed the agreement… Read more ›

The spokesman for Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry, Dina Mufti, has refuted a request by Egyptian authorities that the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is halted until the impasse between both nations is resolved. According to a report by Mogadishu’s… Read more ›

The government of Ethiopia has criminalised the trafficking of its citizens to work as domestic servants in other African countries, as well as in the Middle Eastern and Asian countries. Following the deportation of almost 150,000 Ethiopians from the Kingdom… Read more ›

A study by Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) has revealed that more cases of gender based violence were reported last year than a year ago. The 10-day study by 30 journalists released this month notes that rape, early pregnancy, child… Read more ›

The Federal High Court has adjourned the widely discussed trial of the former director general of the Ethiopian Revenues & Customs Authority (ERCA), Melaku Fenta, and others, until March 18th, 2014. According to reports, the defense lawyers have rested their… Read more ›

Leaders from the East African region will soon initiate the Central Corridor Infrastructural Project, which will include Burundi and Tanzania, reports indicate. According to reports, the Northern and Central infrastructural corridors will incorporate every member state of the EAC. Officials… Read more ›

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Musuveni, on Monday signed Uganda’s widely debated Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. The bill, which was approved by parliament in December 2013, places extended jail term of up to 14 years for first-time offenders and life… Read more ›

Tourism officials from Kenya and Tanzania have entered into a deal that will enable tour operators convey tourists to selected locations in either nation. According to a report by Daily Nation, the agreement was signed by the cabinet secretaries for… Read more ›

Kenyan Forest Service officials have kept up their forceful eviction of residents of the Embobut forest and the entire Cherangany hills, despite a court order and widespread protests against the controversial move. According to local sources, over 1,000 homes have… Read more ›

Islamist militant group, al Shabab, have conducted an attack on Villa Somalia, the residence and central work station of the interim Somali Federal Government. According to accounts of witnesses and police sources, a car exploded near the gate of the… Read more ›

The Ethiopian government has revealed that the co-pilot who seized an Ethiopian Airlines plane on Sunday was not facing persecution in his home country, according to a report by the VOA. Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn, the co- pilot, who is reported… Read more ›

Reports indicate that Rwanda is set to become the first East African country with a utility-scale solar plant following a $24m deal. This deal will see the construction of the plant outside Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Currently, the East African country… Read more ›

Ethiopian Airlines is set to initiate a new route to Mogadishu following the cooperative agreements in transportation and aviation between the two nations, reports indicate. Analysts say that this move signifies a vote of confidence in the financial turnaround of… Read more ›

The United Nations has said that at least 10 people have died following the latest outbreak of violence in the world’s newest country as rebel forces took control of parts of the capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile state, a… Read more ›

Ministers in charge of tourism and wildlife from Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya are meeting at the East African Community headquarters in Arusha this week to  discuss issues affecting tour operations in the three states. Among major issues to be discussed… Read more ›

Human Rights Watch has requested that the governments of South Sudan and Uganda investigate new evidence that banned cluster bombs have been used in the South Sudan conflict. United Nations (UN) experts found remnants of the weapons, including intact unexploded… Read more ›

Investigators say 7 Tanzanian registered companies have a combined asset worth about $40 million in banks located in British Virgin Island and Jersey, United States. According to a report by The Citizen, which quotes a report by The Guardian and… Read more ›

An ex-mayor of Muvumba province, north-eastern Rwanda, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail by a court in Germany, after he was found guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide which left almost one million people dead. The trial… Read more ›

Ministers from Ethiopia and Somalia have signed an agreement to promote collaboration between the respective nations on security, business and information. The agreement was signed on Friday, at a meeting attended by the Somali President Hassan Shiekh Abdiweli and Ethiopia’s… Read more ›

Kenya’s cabinet on Thursday gave its assent to a plan to develop a 1,000-acre free trade zone in the port city of Mombasa. Officials have noted that the establishment of the first duty free port in the region is expected… Read more ›

A confidential report by United Nations monitors in Somalia has disclosed that ‘systemic abuses’ of the United Nations Security Council’s arms embargo on the warring country has permitted weapon shipments destined for the government to be diverted to clans and… Read more ›

The Ugandan Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the nation’s informal sector is growing faster than its formal sector. Uganda’s informal sector, like that of most sub-Saharan African countries, is largely composed of numerous unregistered and unregulated small and medium… Read more ›

A remotely detonated car bomb went off near a checkpoint at the entrance of the Aden Abdulle International Airport, killing at least 6 people and injuring up to 15, reports indicate. United Nations employees are reportedly among the injured, while… Read more ›

The Chairman of Kenya’s National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) and Cabinet Secretary, Francis T. Kimemia, has disclosed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is conniving with activists to topple the government of Kenya. He noted, in a… Read more ›

VOA News has reported that the U.S. embassy in Uganda has warned of an impending terrorist attack in the country’s capital, Kampala. In a message released late Monday, the US embassy revealed that it had been informed “a group of… Read more ›

The government of the United Kingdom has revealed plans to assist Kenya stop unlawful wildlife trade and solve related issues, reports indicate. According to a statement by Christian Turner, the British High Commissioner to Kenya, the United Kingdom has a… Read more ›

Reports indicate that Tanzania may postpone its debut Eurobond until the following fiscal year following a delay in obtaining a risk evaluation by Citigroup Inc. According to reports, the delay slowed the issuance of credit ratings according to Servacius Likwelile,… Read more ›

Djibouti’s Data Center (DCC) has announced the initiation of its Internet Exchange Point (IXP) with the aim of decreasing network costs for operators and improving connection speeds, reports indicate. In a statement, the company indicated that the new IXP would… Read more ›

Cabinet secretaries from over 10 countries across the continent formed the African Cabinet Government Network last week in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The network was reportedly “established to provide formal and informal opportunities for collaboration and mutual support between… Read more ›

At least 100 people have been reported dead, close to 90 injured and hundreds of homes destroyed after ten hours of torrential rainfall in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, on Sunday night. Reports indicate massive flooding and landslides led to the dislodgement of… Read more ›

The second round of negotiations between the warring factions in South Sudan failed to resume on Monday, despite earlier indications from both delegations that the talks were scheduled to recommence. Spokesman for the government of South Sudan, Michael Makuei, told… Read more ›

By Rebecca Simpson The Christian Science Monitor   Since December, international attention and focus has shifted to South Sudan as violence and a rising humanitarian crisis intensifies in the world’s newest nation. Yet in the north, in Sudan itself, escalating… Read more ›

Hundreds of discharged soldiers and disabled army veterans staged a demonstration in front of the presidential compound in Mogadishu on Saturday. According to reports, the angry demonstrators marched to Villa Somalia – the presidential residence – in reaction to a… Read more ›