Politics

Judges of the Kenyan court of Appeal have rejected the plan of President Uhuru Kenyatta to change the country’s constitution. The judges called the president’s project “unconstitutional and unlawful.” The proposition is nicknamed the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), and is spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his political nemesis-turned ally, …

At least five members of a single family including a child are known to be killed by heavy artillery in Debretabor town in Ethiopia’s Amhara state, BBC News reports. “A father and a neighbour’s child who was there during the attack were injured,” Kelemework Mihrete said of the Thursday attack. …

In Kenya, Court of Appeal is due to deliver a verdict shortly on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s controversial attempt to change the constitution and introduce widespread political changes. The introduction of a new post of Prime Minister and two deputies are among the proposed reforms . The High Court has however …

In Uganda, 54 NGOs working in the political, religious or environmental fields have been suspended. Chapter Four, the main human rights organization headed by lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has also been closed. The National Bureau for NGOs, part of the ministry of internal affairs, said in a statement the shutdown was ordered …

The United States on Thursday saluted Albania, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Uganda for agreeing to take in Afghans being evacuated in a major airlift after the Taliban victory. On Tuesday, Ugandan governement by the recommandation of the United States has accpeted to take in 2,000 Afghan refugees. Uganda is the …

Eleven soldiers in Mali have been killed during an ambush on a convoy in the central Mopti region, the military says. A statement said nine other soldiers were seriously injured when a car bomb was detonated and the convoy was then targeted with heavy gunfire. A Malian officer described the …

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has once again called for an immediate ceasefire in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, where government forces and rebel fighters have been locked in conflict since November. After the UN Secretary General has called the humanitarian conditions in Tigray “hellish” he also said aid …

After an investigation into the killing of man falsely accused of starting wildfires, Algeria has decided to review its relations with Morocco, accusing its neighbour of hostile acts. “The repeated hostile acts committed by Morocco against Algeria require a review of our relations and the intensification of border controls,” the …

The trial of former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré and 13 co-accused over the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara will start on 11 October. Mr Compaoré who currently lives in Ivory Coast and may be tried in absentia, was forced in 2014 to leave Burkina Faso after he …

The parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted to extend the state of emergency in Ituri and North Kivu, the two eastern provinces that have been rocked by insecurity. Out of 335 MPs, 334 voted in favour while one abstained. The state of emergency imposed by President Félix …