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Kenya has suspended all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arabs Emirates, for seven days. The suspension is effective from Monday this week. Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), says this was done to reciprocate a ban on Kenyan passenger flights to UAE. The ban will not affect cargo …

The United Nations said on Monday it was starting consultations with Sudanese political parties in a bid to save the country’s transition to democracy after a military coup. U.N. special representative Volker Perthes said officials were contacting parties to look for a way forward, and the army had raised no …

The Ugandan Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn a case against opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine accused of giving false details about his age while registering for a diploma at Makerere University. Lawyer Male Mabirizi last year filed a case against Kyagulanyi who graduated from the …

US President Joe Biden in phone conversation with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed concern over deaths of civilians in this country in the Horn of Africa. This follows reports that more than 50 displaced people were killed in an air strike in north-west Tigray on Friday. A White House …

The Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked the country’s security minister Owen Ncube, the president’s office said on Monday. Mr Mnangagwa’s office said in a statement that the minister had been removed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a minister of government”. Mr Ncube was placed under US sanctions …

Leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in Ethiopia on Sunday accused neighboring Eritrean forces of attacking Tigray forces. TPLF’s spokesperson, Getachew Reda tweeted that fresh attacks had been launched against the group’s forces. The Eritrean military launched fresh attacks against our forces yesterday in Sigem Kofolo, #AfiTsetser, located …

Police in Kenya have arrested 91 Ethiopian nationals at a house in Kitengela, outside the capital Nairobi, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Sunday. The group is suspected to be in the country illegally. All are men below the age of 25, and had attempted to break out …

Atheists In Kenya Society (AIK) announced that it is offering medical and funeral coverage in an effort to register new members. AIK suffered a blow recently when its national secretary resigned after becoming a Christian, BBC News reports. The society is now asking anyone who is “an atheist, agnostic, free …

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said two other people have been killed by police as they were demonstrating against the military rule in the Capital, Khartoum. One was hit on the head by a tear gas cannister and died from a brain haemorrhage, while another died after being struck …

At least five people have died and many others injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province, local media reports. The spokesperson of Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the area, Bonifacio Cardoso …