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Uganda’s army, the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF), says seven of its soldiers were killed in Somalia. The seven UPDF…
Edgar Lungu, the immediate former President of Zambia, has died. He was aged 68. News of the demise of Edgar…
Kenyan novelist Prof Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o has passed away, his family has confirmed. Prof Ngugi was aged 87. "It tears…
Donald Trump’s US government, through the Department of State’s Bureau of Africa Affairs, has spoken out on the torture of…
Uganda’s first son and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has saluted Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan for…
Tanzania's government has deported Activist Agather Atuhaire to Uganda. Atuhaire's colleague Boniface Mwangi was deported to Kenya. Boniface Mwabukusi, the…
Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye’s lawyer as Kenya’s People’s Liberation Party (PLP) party leader Martha Karua says she was…
Kenya’s president William Samoei Ruto’s head was hit with a shoe at a rally , disrupting the meeting on Sunday,…
At least two months before he was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in the evening of April 30, 2025,…
A Kenyan MP was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in the evening of April 30, 2025. The shooting of…