High Court quashes State plan to close Dadaab
The High Court in Nairobi has quashed the government’s plan to close down the Dadaab refugee camp. On Thursday, Justice John Mativo ruled that Interior...
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President: South Sudan National Dialogue Begins in March
South Sudan President Salva Kiir says the national dialogue he proposed in December will get underway in early March. Speaking at a public rally in...
Former prime minister wins Somalia vote
A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia’s new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as the long-chaotic country...
LIVE: Somali lawmakers start voting for president
328 Somali MPs started voting to elect a new president from 21 presidential candidates:- !:25 voting started —- 1:27 Somali parliament speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari...
Somalia heads to presidential polls amidst widespread corruption, intimidation
Somalia is not holding a popular presidential vote but rather an indirect election where only lawmakers are allowed to Vote. By Nangayi Guyson, nangayi.guyson@alleastafrica.com Kampala,...
Wary Somali refugees pack for trip to US … again
When Aden Bare Farah, 23, first boarded a bus taking him away from the bleak rows of dust-coloured tents where he was born and raised...
More than 52,000 flee South Sudan fighting in one month: UN
UNITED NATIONS More than 52,000 South Sudanese fled to Uganda in January alone as continued fighting risks creating a situation of mass atrocities, the UN’s...
Uganda registers a decline in male circumcision numbers
KAMPALA: Uganda has registered a drastic decline in the number of voluntary medical male circumcisions (VMMC) from 900,000 procedures conducted annually in the past years to...
Somalia “Pregnant with Possibility” Ahead of Election: Q&A with Michael Keating
Smalia’s recently elected parliamentarians are expected to appoint a new president on Wednesday this week. Michael Keating, the United Nations’ special representative for Somalia, said...
South Sudan President Kiir to seek another term
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has announced that he will seek a new term in next year’s election. The president made the announcement in Yei...
