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Kenya, Rwanda block chicken imports from Uganda after bird flu outbreak

Kenya and Rwanda have banned importation of live birds and poultry products from Uganda after a confirmed outbreak of Bird Flu on Sunday evening. Kenya's...

South Sudan accused by the UN of grave violations

In the last six months more than 417,000 people have fled into Uganda. Photo Credit: AFP   A UN report into violence in South Sudan, has...

Tanzania’s Magufuli faces vote of no confidence

The Alliance for Democratic Change (ACT-Wazalendo) has said it would table in Parliament a motion of no confidence against President John Magufuli in the...

Uganda president names first female Major General

Brigadier Proscovia Nalweyiso is the first female Major-General in the Uganda People's Defence Forces. Photo Credit: Monitor   Brigadier Proscovia Nalweyiso has made history after she became...

University lecturers and workers in Kenya threaten strike over salaries

Universities Staff Academic Union and Kenya University Staff Union officials addressing journalists at Chester House in Nairobi. Photo Credit: Nation Media Group.   University lecturers and...

Kenya’s doctors’ union leaders sentenced for contempt, ordered to call off strike

Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) Secretary-General Ouma Oluga making a case in court. Photo Credit: Sarah Kimani   Leaders of doctors in Kenya are...

Kenyan opposition forms alliance in unity bid before August election

Kenyan opposition leader of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), Raila Odinga, and KANU Secretary General Nick Salat. Photo Credit: Reuters   Kenyan opposition political...

Al Shabaab militants kill two over gay sex, another man for spying

Somali Islamist group al Shabaab shot two men and a teenager in southern Somalia on Tuesday, saying one of the men and the 15-year-old...

Ugandan leader makes son his adviser, critics see succession plan

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son as his senior adviser, officials said on Tuesday, a move analysts said was part of a...

Ethiopia to ‘consolidate gains’ before lifting emergency law

Ethiopia needs to "consolidate gains" after the deadly unrest last year before it can lift a state of emergency that was imposed in October,...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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