Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer, critically injures four others in Kenya
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on al-Shabab, a Somalia-based extremist group linked to al-Qaida.
Bank of Tanzania sets new policy rate at 5.5 per cent
Inflation in the East African nation fell to 3 per cent in December from 3.2 per cent in November.
Tiny island-nation Cape Verde outclasses Mozambique to win Africa Cup of Nations Group B
Cape Verde, with a population of some 600,000, complete their group against Egypt on Monday while Mozambique meet Ghana in the other group game at the same time.
AU, EU and US are wary Sudan conflict and Somalia’s tension with Ethiopia will fuel war in Horn of Africa
Amid the renewed calls for a ceasefire, the United Nations announced on Thursday that the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, which is charged with investigating violations of human rights and international humanitarian law since April 15, began its work this week.
Finance Minister: Kenya receives $210 million in loans from Trade and Development Bank
In a letter to the IMF published on Thursday, Ndung’u and the central bank governor said Kenya intended to go to international bond markets as soon as the market situation allowed.
Uganda enters bizarre military deal with Central African Republic to promote ‘peace and stability’
Landlocked CAR is bordered by Chad (north), Sudan (north-east), South Sudan (east), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (south), Congo Republic (south-west) and Cameroon (west).
Puzzle for British PM as asylum seekers sent to Rwanda by UK report sexual abuse, harassment
Reports of abuse and harassment coincide with a tense legal and legislative battle by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to push through a controversial plan to deport hundreds of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda for processing and eventual resettlement.
While Museveni uses poverty to trample upon Basoga people, he should bear in mind they are worth $12 trillion in gold
Government officials continue to say Busoga is poor because the people are lazy. But Busoga has now a new choice to rise to prosperity again: its mineral wealth. Perturbed by the NRM government exclusionary strategy to separate Busoga from its mineral wealth and then continue characterising the Basoga as lazy
Ex-military scientists at Beijing University create Covid variant that kills victims in eight hours
Christina Parks, a science educator with a degree in cellular and molecular biology, posted a video about the study, saying, “This is gain-of-function research. There’s no two ways about it.”
Republican frontrunner Trump’s lawyers want Supreme Court to swiftly end to bid to ban him from poll
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson are among nearly 180 Republicans in Congress who have warned that a ruling upholding Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot would inevitably lead to tit-for-tat disqualifications of political opponents.
