East Africa

At least 55 people died and 155 others were injured after a violent clash between two clans in central Somalia, Reuters reported, citing residents and medical officials. Somalia’s federal government is not only struggling to contain violence unleashed by the Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group, but is also facing clan-based …

Rwanda’s electoral body has banned Diane Rwigara, an outspoken critic of President Kagame, from running in next month’s presidential election. Only Mr Kagame and two other politicians – Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party and independent Philippe Mpayimana – were exonerated by the electorate. Ms. Rwigara, leader of the …

At least 130 people have died at a single hospital in Sudan’s besieged city of El Fasher, in the Darfur region, according to medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Fighting between rival groups in Sudan’s civil war in the battle for control of the city has recently intensified, BBC reported. …

Tens of thousands of genetically modified (GMO) mosquitoes have been released in Djibouti in an effort to stop the spread of an invasive species that transmits malaria, the BBC reported. The friendly non-biting male Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, developed by Oxitec, a UK-based biotechnology company, carry a gene that kills female …

At least eleven people have been killed and two others injured after the explosion of a sugar factory in Tanzania’s eastern district of Mvomero, local media reported, citing authorities. The explosion occurred at about 01:00 local time on Thursday [23:00 GMT Wednesday] at a factory run by Mtibwa Sugar Estates …

Kenyan mountaineer Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui has been found dead after going missing on Everest, local media reported. Mr Kirui, 40, and his Nepali guide Nawang Sherpa, 44, disappeared on Wednesday while attempting to summit Everest without supplementary oxygen, reports said. The guide is yet to be found by the search …

Residents of the Kenyan capital Nairobi have been urged to be vigilant as Kenyan Wildlife Authorities said lions were roaming the city. The Kenyan wildlife authorities have urged residents of Nairobi’s Lang’ata area to be vigilant following reports of three lions spotted nearby. On Thursday, a team from the Kenya …

Rwanda’s High Court has excluded a prominent opposition politician and critic of President Paul Kagame, preventing him from running in July’s presidential elections. Bernard Ntaganda, 55, had asked the court to lift his convictions so he could qualify to run in the election. The High Court declined Mr Ntaganda’s request …

Internet has been restored in Tanzania after a severe three-day outage, one of the country’s major telecom companies says. Tanzania and the French territory of Mayotte were the worst-hit by the outage that began on Sunday morning, with connectivity levels falling below 30% of what they were expected to be. …

The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed its doors for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. It cancelled …