East Africa

Government in Kenya said it is planning to manufacture covid vaccines locally from next year in partnership with limited companies. The country will begin with the establishment of a fill-and-finish facility, where vaccines are put into vials and packaged for use. “We aim to start local production during the first …

The son of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni say it wouldn’t take the country’s army a day to put down any attempt by mutinous soldiers to stage a coup, similar to the one that ousted that ousted Guinea’s President Alpha Condé. With a picture of Col Mamady Doumbouya, Lt Gen Muhoozi …

Speaking from South Africa to France 24’s Marc Perelman, the Ugandan opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine on Tuesday said that President Museveni will end up in the dustbin of history. Bobi Wine, president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), said Mr Museveni is on paths to ending in …

In a two-page statement, Ugandan Education Minister and First Lady Janet Museveni said the continued closure of schools in the country was aimed at protecting young people who are Uganda’s future from the COVID-19. On her official twitter account, Ms Museveni asked parents to be patient as the government is …

Money-laundering charges against a leading Ugandan human rights lawyer, Nicholas Opiyo, have been dropped, documents from the director of public prosecution’s office show. According to the documents, Mr. Opiyo, who was arrested in December 2020 by plainclothes officers in a restaurant will see his deposit refunded. Read also: Rwandan opposition …

The lawyer for Christopher Kayumba, a Rwandan opposition leader, announced that his client had gone on a hunger strike after being arrested by police. Christopher Kayumba, the leader of the Rwandese Platform for Democracy (RPD), was arrested on Thursday on rape charges, the Rwanda Investigation Bureau said. He has previously …

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu has appointed Stergomena Tax as the country’s defense minister to replace Elias Kwandikwa, who died in August. The president also fires the Communication Minister Faustine Ndugulile, the Transport minister Leonard Chamuriho and Medard Kalemani the Energy minister. President Suluhu brought back January Makamba whose appointment had …

Rwandan opposition figure Christopher Kayumba is in the hands of the police. The university lecturer is detained over rape allegations. Mr Kayumba who had honoured summons from the investigating bureau on Thursday has been handed over for prosecution after the bureau said it had closed investigations. Christopher Kayumba was accused …

Kenyan police say they are holding two people posing as doctors who allegedly gave fake Johnson & Johnson vaccines to many unsuspected Kenyans. The Criminal Investigations Directorate said the two men charged many unsuspecting Kenyans $ 30 per injection, despite all Covid-19 vaccines offered in Kenya being free. “We have …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to withdraw the country’s troops from the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The warning follows a row between the Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and the Prime minister Mohamed Roble over the choice of intelligence chief and the prime minister’s dismissal of the …