The findings of a commission in Rwanda, that has spent two years uncovering France’s role in 1994 genocide are set to be made public Friday.There have been persistent, and so-far unsubstantiated, claims that France under then-President Francois Mitterrand did not act...
A Kenyan official says four passengers were killed and dozens wounded when a bus hit an improvised bomb on a main road in the northern county of Mandera, near the border with Somalia.The bus was heading to Mandera town...
Kenya has ordered the closure of two sprawling camps that host hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Somalia and gave the UN refugee agency – UNHCR – two weeks to present a plan to do so.The Dadaab and...
The Ethiopia Human Rights Commission the EHRC states that Eritrean soldiers killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Aksum in Tigray at the end of November.Its investigation between 27 February and 5 March followed reports of a...
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, he was aged 61, the country's vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced.Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and...
The International Organization for Migration says at least 20 migrants are dead after smugglers threw 80 overboard during a voyage from Djibouti in East Africa to Yemen.A statement says “smugglers started shouting there were too many on board” after...
Fighters believed to be from the notorious ADF rebels have killed at least 10 civilians in two overnight attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the army said on Sunday.At least eight people were decapitated in...
Three journalists, two working with foreign media house and one with local media are being detained by the military in Ethiopia's Tigray region.Fitsum Berhane, who was working with the AFP news agency, was arrested by uniformed Ethiopian soldiers on...
Eritrea government has "categorically rejected’’ accusations that its troops fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in the holy city of Aksum over two days in November.An Amnesty International report says the mass killings on 28...
Uganda government spokesman Ofwono Opondo, has urged the US should to "fix its own elections" rather than give "lectures" to Uganda about its elections, this is according the state-linked Newspaper, New Vision.His comments came after the US said it...
