Browsing: East Africa

Kenya’s President William Ruto has been pipped to the post by Syria’s deposed Bashar al-Assad as 2024’s Corrupt Person of the Year. The award is made…

Is Israel manufacturing consent for regime change in Eritrea? In a 16 January article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, author Habtom Ghebrezghiabher argues Asmara poses a…

Donald Trump kicks off his second term as US president with an uncertain agenda regarding Africa. Kenya’s status as a key non-NATO ally hangs in the…

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…