The entire Leadership and Staff at the East African Community have received with great shock and sadness the news of the demise of H.E. Mwai Kibaki, former President of the Republic of Kenya from 2003 to 2013, on Friday,...
Goma – The DR Congo has once again accused Rwandan rebels based in the eastern part of the country, for the deadly attacks that saw 12 rangers and five others killed at the world-famous Virunga national park.
Citing a preliminary...
A US-based Kenyan is among top scientists who have unveiled the world’s first antiretroviral (ARV) drug to be taken once-a-year.
Prof. Benson Edagwa, University of Nebraska Medical Center-UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, and Howard Gendelman, M.D., chairman and...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and ex-vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed Thursday to form a unity government on Saturday, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war.
“We have agreed to form the government in two...
In 2010, four years before the anti-gay law was debated in Uganda, a weekly tabloid newspaper, the Rolling stone newspaper, published photographs of dozens of homosexuals, calling for people to hang them. From time immemorial, homosexuality among men has...
Rwandan security forces killed 19 “terrorists” blamed for a weekend attack that left 14 dead near the Volcanoes National Park, famous for its mountain gorilla sanctuary, police said Sunday.
“The security forces were able to follow these terrorists, to kill...
Unidentified armed assailants have killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others during an overnight attack in northern Rwanda near the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa Tembelea has learnt.
According to Rwanda police, the attack...
Uganda’s ethics minister Simon Lokodo announced the cancellation of this year’s Nyege Nyege music and cultural festival in Jinja District in Eastern Uganda based on allegations that it is a celebration of open sex and homosexuality.
Addressing journalists at Uganda...
Over the past fortnight, Uganda has been convulsed by the fallout from the arrest of opposition MP Robert Kyagulanyi – better known as Afro-beat pop superstar Bobi Wine. His arrest, along with others opposed to the government, led to...
Uganda's Makerere University has accorded the retired Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki the ultimate accolade by naming Library after him in a ceremony that saw regional elites urged to back regional integration.
The mega project, expected to cost US$ 50 million...
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