The death toll from Kenya's anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, the state-funded human rights commission said on Tuesday.
It marks the highest single-day toll since demonstrations began earlier this year. Over 50 people have (...)
Kenya's security forces have blocked all major roads leading into central Nairobi, ahead of planned nationwide protests.
Much of the city centre is deserted, with businesses shut and a heavy security presence on the streets. Some schools have (...)
At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government.
Police clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi and other cities exactly a (...)
Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of blogger Albert Ojwang.
Lagat had been under pressure to resign from the opposition and human rights activists as Ojwang (...)
RIYADH — The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), a carbon credit company established by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Saudi Tadawul Group, and Enowa, the energy and water subsidiary of NEOM, have announced a long-term agreement to facilitate the (...)
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a military court under certain circumstances.
A previous law permitting such trials was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme (...)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature — a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness.
His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country — (...)
Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader Tundu Lissu.
Two colleagues accompanying her were also reportedly (...)
The Kenyan government has described as "shameful" an incident in which a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a rally on Sunday.
Ruto fended off a shoe thrown at him during a speech about the cost of living which has been a source of (...)
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's president, has confirmed the detention of an opposition leader's bodyguard, who has been missing for five days.
Edward Sebuufu, alias Eddie Mutwe, was reportedly picked up on Sunday by unidentified (...)
A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination.
Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the (...)
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC.
The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not (...)
Tanzania has banned all agricultural imports from South Africa and Malawi in the latest episode of a growing trade row.
"We are taking this step to protect our business interests. This is business - in business, we must all respect each other," (...)
Millions of African Catholics, as well as the continent's leaders, are mourning a man who they felt spoke for Africa.
Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic (...)
A 14-year-old girl was killed by a lion on the outskirts of Nairobi, according to a statement issued by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Sunday.
The girl was reportedly taken from a residential compound on a ranch adjacent to Nairobi National (...)
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
Lornoy David and (...)
A high-level international conference is under way in London to find "a pathway to peace" in Sudan, hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Sudan's civil war began exactly two years ago causing what aid agencies call the world's worst (...)
US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned.
It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen (...)
RIYADH — The Musaned Platform, under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD), recorded tangible progress in digital and technical performance, achieving a satisfaction rate of 95.86 percent, topping the Beneficiary (...)
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who tried to occupy a church that was recently given a substantial donation by President William Ruto.
The gift to the Jesus Winner Ministry in the Roysambu suburb of Nairobi of 20m (...)
Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed at least 40,000 (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
RIYADH — A high-level delegation from the Federation of Saudi Chambers will begin a visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda on Monday. The delegation will hold meetings with senior government officials in in the three African countries as well as the (...)
Australian scientists have produced the world's first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a breakthrough they say could help save other species from extinction.
Using specimens from eastern grey kangaroos, the researchers (...)
Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to disburse it.
These aren't warnings of what's to come, but examples of what aid workers say is the fallout of the Trump (...)
