Browsing: East Africa

South Sudan has imposed a dusk-to-dawn nationwide curfew after revenge attacks killed 16 Sudanese nationals. The violence erupted in the capital Juba and other towns after…

A Statista report has revealed that Kenyan President William Ruto has the highest salary among world leaders compared to his country’s economic capacity. According to the…

On 19 January, 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti, increasing the number of Kenyan personnel deployed to the Caribbean country to over 600. This comes despite…

On 11 January, armed assailants broke into the home of the general secretary of the ‘Communist Party Marxist – Kenya’ (CPM-K). Booker Omole says they intended…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised concerns about Kenya’s Operation Support Unit (OSU), accusing it of carrying out a wave of abductions similar to those perpetrated…

Civil-society organisations reported at least eight deaths across Mozambique as the country’s new president, Daniel Chapo, was sworn in on 15 January at a low-key ceremony…

The grim reaper is sweeping Kenyan social media – where a ‘funeral cortège’ of AI-generated images of a dead President William Ruto has gone viral. Some…

The Kenya Human Rights Commission, along with several other rights groups, has raised concerns regarding the rise in abductions in Kenya. In a recent case, five…

Kenya’s controversial policing mission to Haiti – launched mid-last year at the bidding of the US – has so far failed in its stated goal of…

Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox faithful celebrate Christmas almost two weeks after much of the rest of the world, in keeping with the Julian calendar. Christianity arrived…