Nairobi, April 24 -- Chad's presidential election campaigns officially kicked off on April 14, 2024 in the capital city, N'Djamena. Transitional President Mahamat Idriss Deby held a large meeting on ... Read More
Nairobi, April 17 -- Shortly after Kenya's 2022 elections, the shilling depreciated rapidly against the US dollar - the country's main currency for international transactions - fuelling a wave of poli... Read More
Nairobi, April 17 -- Shortly after Kenya's 2022 elections, the shilling depreciated rapidly against the US dollar - the country's main currency for international transactions - fuelling a wave of poli... Read More
Nairobi, April 17 -- A member of parliament in Kenyan President William Ruto's governing coalition created a firestorm by suggesting that there was a plan to remove presidential term limits in the cou... Read More
Nairobi, April 16 -- It's been three years since the death of Tanzania's former president John Magufuli and the rise to power of current president Samia Suluhu Hassan. Magufuli was Tanzania's fifth p... Read More
Nairobi, April 16 -- The RED-Tabara armed group, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has renewed attacks in Burundi since late 2023. The group - which is an abbreviation of the French Res... Read More
Nairobi, April 12 -- What's sometimes forgotten about the April 26-29,1994 vote that installed the African National Congress (ANC) government in South Africa is that, until the last minute, it looked ... Read More
Nairobi, April 5 -- The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi led to the murder of more than 800,000 people, an estimated 70 percent of the country's Tutsi population. The unprecedented violence and... Read More
Nairobi, April 5 -- Paul Rusesabagina is perhaps one of the world's best-known Rwandans. His actions during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi were made famous in the 2004 Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda... Read More
Nairobi, April 3 -- Kenya has temporarily halted controversial plans to send a specially trained contingent of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, where armed gang violence recently took a turn for the wo... Read More