East Africa

Kenyan President William Ruto says his visible weight loss is his deliberate effort to keep fit amid concerns by some Kenyans on social media over his health, local media reported. Speaking during a televised media interview on Sunday, President Ruto explained he had added some weight during the campaign period …

The East African Community (EAC) has urged Democratic Republic of Congo’s leader to respect regional states’ move to deploy forces in an attempt to stabilise eastern parts of his country, the BBC reported. President Félix Tshisekedi on Tuesday accused the East African force of not doing its job, warning if …

Ugandan High Court judge Stephen Mubiru on Tuesday convicted six people of murdering two South Sudanese businessmen at Juba City hotel at Arua Park in Kampala and injuring another in 2018, DailyMonitor reported. Justice Mubiru found the six guilty of murder, attempted murder and aggravated robbery. However, the judge acquitted …

The leader of a Kenyan cult is expected back in court on Wednesday as police continue to investigate the deaths of more than 130 of his followers, local media reported. They want to continue to hold Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who was arrested last month and is accused of ordering followers …

Ugandan health authorities have allayed fears that coronavirus could be driving the wave of cough and flu, which is sweeping through the country. Local media reported increased cases of people being bedridden for days or losing their voices with the onset of an intense cough, flu and fever. In a …

Autopsies on at least 112 bodies of cult victims exhumed from shallow graves in Kenya’s coastal Kilifi county have ruled out organ harvesting. Government pathologists said some of the victims died of starvation, strangulation and suffocation. Kenyan police are expected dig up more graves in search of victims of the …

The death toll from landslides and floods in Rwanda has now risen to more than 100 amid heavy rains in the country, local media reported, citing authorities. The Rwandan public broadcaster, RBA, reports that 109 have so far died, 95 of those in the western province and 14 in the …

Ugandan parliament has watered down an anti-homosexuality bill that originally criminalised people for simply identifying as LGBTQ+. The proposed legislation, first approved in March, was returned to the house after President Yoweri Museveni suggested changes. He said the clause penalising people who identify as gay would have led to the …

The autopsy and identification of more than a hundred bodies found in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where the followers of a sect gathered, began on Monday morning, announced the interior Minister Kithure Kindiki. “The process of autopsying the bodies begins immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside the …

Uganda’s Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Colonel (rtd) Charles Okello Engola was shot dead by his bodyguard on Tuesday morning at his home in Kyanja, a suburb of Kampala. It is not yet clear whether there was an argument between the soldier and the minister. Some …