East Africa

Ethiopia's electoral board has postponed August’s highly anticipated general election because of current coronavirus pandemic.A new schedule would be announced once the threat of the pandemic was over, the board said.Much of its planning had been hit by the...

Panic over the global coronavirus pandemic has led to reports of discrimination against foreign nationals in East Africa.From Ethiopia, to Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Westerners have been verbally and physically abused over fears that they may...

Ethiopia is restoring the internet in western parts of the country in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus.Services have been blocked for the past three months following an outbreak of violence in western Oromia. In some areas...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced a 14-day ban on public transportation as a measure to curb the spread of the coronavirus.In a televised address on Wednesday, Mr Museveni said the ban will take effect immediately. This includes the...

An eight-month-old baby in Uganda, whose father recently travelled back from Kenya's western city of Kisumu, has tested positive for coronavirus.The baby girl is one of five new cases detected in Uganda.According to health officials, she is being treated...

A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber has walked into a tea shop in Somalia’s capital and detonated, killing at least two people.Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the bomber, posing as a pedestrian, entered the shop and detonated his...

A man in Rwanda who breached the ongoing lockdown to reportedly go fishing has been killed and eaten by a crocodile, the mayor of the southern Kamonyi district has told the BBC.Alice Kayitesi said the Wednesday morning incident happened...

German customs officials are attempting to track down about 6 million face masks ordered to protect health workers from the coronavirus which went missing at an airport in Kenya.“The authorities are trying to find out what happened,” said a...

The health ministry in Rwanda has announced 17 new coronavirus cases, the country's highest single-day increase in the number of confirmed infections.The country now has a total of 36 confirmed cases, which is the highest in the East Africa...

Rwanda imposed a nationwide shutdown and border controls to combat the coronavirus at the weekend in some of the strictest measures taken in Africa, as infections spread across the continent and authorities warn healthcare systems are ill-equipped to cope.Governments...