East Africa

Ethiopia’s military has accused an unnamed “third party” of being behind its border dispute with Sudan, according to state-owned Ethiopian News Agency. Army Chief of Staff General Birhanu Jula on Wednesday said a “third party was behind the Sudanese army’s violation of Ethiopia’s sovereignty”. He said that Sudan should avoid …

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says the country is determined to sign a new trade deal with the US despite a change in US president. The two countries initiated trade negotiations in July 2020. But in November, the US voted Republican President Donald Trump out of office and his successor, Democrat …

According to the Reuters news agency, Kenya expects to receive 24 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University next month. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said the vaccines were ordered through an African Union (AU) initiative. The British Foreign minister, Dominic Raab, who is in the …

Uganda’s presidential challenger Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine has appealed to “fellow citizens of the world” to help him as he remained under house arrest with riot police and troops stationed outside his home. “We have run short of food supplies but when my wife tried to …

Southern Madagascar is suffering from the worst drought in a decade and the resultant food crisis, worsened by the effects of coronavirus. In the south-east of Madagascar now, one in three people suffer from severe food insecurity, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. ”In times …

Three Nigerians, a South African and a local on suspicion of belonging to an international network of traffickers of cocaine, were arrested by the Mozambican police. According to the spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command, Leonel Muchina, the five alleged drug traffickers were detained in the in the neighbourhood …

The US has imposed visa restrictions on Tanzanian officials it says were responsible for undermining the general elections last October. The outgoing Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, said those targeted subverted the electoral process and violated human rights. He said the intimidation and arrest of opposition candidates, widespread voting irregularities …

Uganda’s defeated presidential candidate Bobi Wine has tweeted that he and his family are “under house arrest and stuck with an 18-month-old baby”. Soldiers have surrounded the politician’s home claiming that he could incite his supporters if he leaves the compound. Bobi Wine who became famous as a musician tweeted …

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has rallied farmers in the country to increase food production, predicting global food scarcity later in the year caused by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. He urged farmers to take advantage of the reduced production by the largest food-producing countries in the wake of health …

Rwanda has imposed a 15-day lockdown on its capital, Kigali, as the country battles a second wave of coronavirus cases that has resulted in “unprecedented deaths and transmission rates”. This is the capital’s second lockdown since the outbreak of the pandemic. The government had in March enacted a countrywide lockdown …