East Africa

Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura was just a small boy when his family was violently expelled from their ancestral land in Kenya's lush tea-growing western highlands by British colonisers, and banished never to return.Eighty-five years later he still bristles at the...

Electric vehicles will debut in Rwanda today through a partnership between Volkswagen and Siemens under a pilot project.The vehicles, to be launched in the presence of Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente, are dubbed e-Golf. Rwanda is the first African country...

Uganda's opposition politician Bobi Wine has dismissed President Yoweri Museveni's appeal for support from youths living in informal settlements, saying he is to blame for their "impoverishment".The musician-turned-politician, who is the self-declared 'ghetto president', ridiculed a mural of Mr...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, on Saturday denounced "attempt to provoke an ethnic and religious crisis" after violence that left 67 people dead during the week."The crisis we are experiencing could get even worse if Ethiopians do not unite,"...

Four Burundian journalists arrested this week were charged on Saturday with undermining state security, an editor at their newspaper tweeted, as Burundi’s government clamps down on journalists and human rights groups ahead of elections in 2020.The journalists from domestic...

Somali immigrant who ran down a Canadian police officer with a truck and then stabbed him repeatedly was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder, the Crown prosecutor’s office said.Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, had denied the charges in connection...

Ten Eritrean children found cold and hungry in Belfast weeks ago, where said to have arrived illegally into Northern Ireland travelling through a shipping container. The East African children, were travelling without an adult.They were taken into care in Belfast...

High-profile Ethiopian activist at the centre of violence that left 16 people dead this week has accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of acting like a dictator and said he might challenge him in elections planned for next year.In an...

Russian state atomic company Rosatom has signed a deal with Rwanda to build a center of nuclear science and technologies, the Russian company said on Thursday, as it seeks to expand in Africa.The center would carry out scientific research...

Ethiopian activist Jawar Mohammed called for calm on Thursday amid protests that have killed 16 people and are challenging Nobel Prize-winning PM Abiy Ahmed in his political heartland.Addressing hundreds of supporters gathered around his house in Addis Ababa, Jawar...