Suicide truck bomb hits African troop base in Somalia
Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group rammed a suicide truck bomb into a military base of African AMISOM peacekeeping troops on Tuesday in the area of...
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Attackers kill 12 in Kenyan guesthouse blast near Somali border
Attackers blew up part of a hotel in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 12 people on Tuesday, in a raid claimed by al Shabaab militants...
Ethiopia: Diplomats still restricted, tourists free to travel – Attorney General
Foreign tourists in Ethiopia are not expected to notify anyone in order to travel and visit attractions sites in the country, the Attorney General of...
Kenya Loses Regional Fuel Traffic to Tanzania Over Contamination
Rwanda and Burundi stopped importing their fuel needs through the Kenyan port of Mombasa because of the contamination of some cargoes and have opted to...
As South Sudan Fights, Refugees Flow Into Uganda
One way to measure the growing turmoil in South Sudan is by the rapidly expanding refugee influx in neighboring Uganda. A crowd of refugees press...
Kenya mulls ICC withdrawal
The spokesman for Kenya’s president says Kenya’s cabinet has yet to make a decision on whether the country should withdraw from the International Criminal Court....
Internet shutdown could cost Ethiopia’s booming economy millions of dollars
The internet shutdown in Ethiopia will drain millions of dollars from the economy, besides undermining citizens’ rights to impart and seek information, observers of the...
Shabaab ‘takes Somali town’ after Ethiopia troop pullout
Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with...
Top critic Uganda says ‘undecided’ about leaving ICC
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda says it remains “undecided” about whether to leave the International Criminal Court after two African states this week decided to pull...
Somaliland’s main opposition party faces split in dispute over flagbearer’s deputy
Wadani, one of the leading opposition parties in the enclave failed to break a tense deadlock on who’d become its deputy flag-bearer By Jamal Ibrahim,...
