Uhuru calls for peace ahead of next year’s polls
President Uhuru Kenyatta has challenged leaders to ensure next year’s elections are peaceful and credible. “We should not allow election violence to define our country’s...
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Ethiopia’s Ayana and Usain Bolt win top 2016 IAAF awards
Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana has been named the female World Athletes of the Year at the International Association of Athletics Federation’s Athletics Awards 2016, held at...
Discontent grows louder in Ethiopia as regime fights for survival
Angered by the arrest of Merera Gudina, his party leader, hours earlier for allegedly “making contact with terrorist groups”, a senior figure in Ethiopia’s opposition...
Battle for Kipsigis vote hots up in Bomet with rival rallies planned
The hunt for all important Kipsigis vote will on Sunday be taken a notch higher when Jubilee brigade and Governor Isaac Ruto hold parallel rallies...
Raila: No second term for Jubilee
Opposition chief Raila Odinga has warned that the country would be completely ruined if Jubilee was allowed to rule for another five years. Speaking in...
Uganda cracks down on ‘dissenting’ Rwenzururu kingdom
A Ugandan king has been charged with murder following violent clashes in which more than 80 people died last week. The BBC’s Patience Atuhaire visited...
South Sudanese flee as country edges closer to “genocide”
A displaced South Sudanese woman prepares a meal in a camp for internally displaced people in the UNMISS compound in Tomping, Juba, South Sudan, July...
Raila decision to skip forum sparks debate
Coast leaders on Friday differed over the boycott by the opposition of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance conference in Diani, South Coast. Kilifi North MP...
UN experts call for investigation into high levels of sexual violence in South Sudan
Sexual violence has reached “epic proportions” in the conflict in South Sudan, a group of UN experts said on Friday while urging the establishment of...
UN appeals for humanitarian assistance for Somalia
The UN top relief official for Somalia has appealed to donors to scale up humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa nation amid severe drought....
