East Africa

John Simbachawene, the Tanzanian ambassador to Kenya has warned Kenyan media against “misleading reporting” about how his country was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. He also accused Kenyan media, which broadcast in the neighbouring country, of causing panic in Tanzania, saying they should be factual. The envoy’s comments come after …

Robert Kagulanyi alias Bobi Wine the leader of the Ugandan opposition filed an application withdrawing his electoral petition challenging President Yoweri Museveni’s victory. The National Unity Platform (NUP) president, through his lawyers on Wednesday, outlined six grounds that influenced him to lose interest in the petition. Mr Kyagulanyi argues that …

The body of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo who was killed in a botched kidnapping attempt on Monday, has been flown back to Rome. Luca Attanasio, his Italian bodyguard, Vittorio Iacovacci, and a local driver, Moustapha Milambo, were killed in an ambush on a United Nations …

The Rwandan President Paul Kagame has faulted the “hypocrisy and double standards” in the global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. President Kagame made the comments in a tweet after the World Health Organization (WHO) director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said deals between rich nations and vaccine manufacturers had made it hard to …

For few days, according to rumors, the inner circle of the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni would have been immunized against the coronavirus pandemic. The Ugandan health minister Jane Aceng in a Tweet denied reports that top government officials have been vaccinated against Covid-19 before the country formally receives vaccines. Minister …

Tanzanian president John Magufuli is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. The president’s comments came days after the country mourned the death of one of its highest-profile politicians, the vice president of the semi-autonomous island …

The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition which he had filed in the Supreme Court, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 general election. “We are withdrawing from the courts but we …

A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. Reports say Seif Bamporiki was killed while delivering furniture to a client on Sunday afternoon in Cape Town. It is not clear whether …

Anthony Kerali, Associate Professor in Makerere University was yesterday afternoon found dead in bed at his house in Kampala’s upscale Kololo neighbourhood. The death was confirmed by Vice Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe who payed him a last tribute: “We shall remember him as a dedicated and diligent servant of the …

Heavy gunfire has been reported in Somali capital, Mogadishu, as a group of opposition leaders defied a government ban on public gatherings and held protests. Security forces have closed most roads in the city over the planned protests. The opposition parties want President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo to leave office after …