A middle-aged American citizen who had been fighting for al-Shabab in Somalia has fled the group after angering its leadership…
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The Seychelles will go to an unprecedented presidential election runoff after all six candidates in the first round failed to…
The US special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region says Burundi is at risk of descending into total chaos. Thomas…
Voters in the main islands of the Seychelles have cast their ballots in a presidential election in which incumbent James…
Armed men in the Central African Republic (CAR) killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one…
Burundi is on the brink of civil war and will need regional mediation to establish a peace process between the…
French army officers have denied allegations by rights groups that the country’s peacekeeping force knowingly failed to prevent the killing…
Rastafarians around the world see Ethiopia as their spiritual home. Many of them believe the country’s last king, Haile Selassie,…
Climate change is affecting all regions of the globe, but some places are more vulnerable than others. Parts of East…
Vanessa Berhe’s mother tried hard to teach her daughter about the rich culture and history of her ancestral home. Born…
Kenyan police have blamed a Nairobi university for failing to gain the appropriate authorisation from authorities prior to holding a…
The African continent is the only region to have recorded a consistent drop in new HIV infections since 2010, the…
In a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of World AIDS Day on December 1,…
Nduta Camp, Tanzania – A bright purple bus roars into the dusty compound carrying scores of Burundians who have left…
A security drill at a Nairobi university has caused mass panic among staff and students after security forces used what…
Kenya has started construction on a 700km-long wall along its porous border with Somalia, in an attempt to shield itself…
Thousands of enthusiastic Ugandans have greeted Pope Francis as he held a mass youth rally and honoured martyred Christians during…
Kenya has arrested two men it says are connected to an Iranian intelligence network that was planning an attack inside…
Unidentified gunmen have attacked a base for UN peacekeepers in the northern Mali town of Kidal, a peacekeeper at the…
Pope Francis has urged global action against the illegal trafficking of blood diamonds, ivory and other natural resources, in the…