Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen toured Nairobi’s central business district on Thursday, inspecting shops stripped of goods during Wednesday’s unrest

Hospital director Abel Assaye said most victims were crushed while fleeing through a single doorway after a ground-floor transformer under repair blew up and filled the building with smoke

Sanctions end U.S. aid, arms sales, loans and multilateral backing for Sudan starting Friday

DR Congo launched a large-scale polio vaccination campaign targeting over 10 million children as cases of variant poliovirus persist despite previous efforts.

Analysts and diplomats estimate Rwanda has sent about 7,000 soldiers across the border to back the M23 rebels, who swept through eastern Congo earlier this year, seizing two major cities and mineral-rich territory

Ethiopian health workers strike for better pay as authorities arrest dozens and face criticism from Human Rights Watch over harsh tactics

Ramaphosa’s office said the dismissal does not presage a wider reshuffle and gave no reason for Whitfield’s removal

Thousands poured into the streets of Nairobi and other cities to commemorate the June 2024 demonstrations that left over 60 people dead

At least 14 Nigerian soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in a clash with gunmen in Niger State, according to the army

UN relief chief Tom Fletcher visited eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to assess humanitarian projects amid escalating conflict and displacement

Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died on 5 June while undergoing medical treatment in South Africa

Senegalese son accuses France of hiding remains of his father killed in the Thiaroye massacre during World War II.

Government orders all television, radio stations to halt live coverage of protests, according to local media

Succes Masra, a former prime minister, faces multiple charges including inciting hatred and violence, complicity with armed gangs and complicity in murder

Police fired tear gas and sealed roads into Nairobi’s central business district, while marches in Mombasa and Nakuru remained largely peaceful

U.S. diplomat says there is no visa ban and denies unfair trade practices amid African concerns at Luanda summit.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame met Olusegun Obasanjo after weeks of absence while his office denied rumours of serious illness.

A Congolese soldier killed three fellow soldiers during a violent altercation in North Kivu near the frontline with M23 rebels

Museveni’s ruling party confirmed his candidacy amid a harsh crackdown on opposition activists and politicians in Uganda.

Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese human-rights group, accused an SAF drone of carrying out Saturday’s strike; it put the death toll at nine in a statement issued on Sunday

Dagalo said the RSF “strongly opposes” any Iranian effort to acquire nuclear weapons, warning it would further destabilise an already volatile Middle East

Somali forces killed at least 20 al-Shabaab militants after repelling an attack in the central Hiraan region with pursuit operations ongoing.

Lecturers and students at the University of Zimbabwe continue striking over low wages as inflation exceeds 90 percent in the country

Officers Samson Kiprotich, Talaam James Mukhwana and Peter Kimani appeared in a Nairobi court alongside three civilians facing the same count