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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) is expected to meet his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenço on Thursday, August 8, in the Angolan capital Luanda.

Ramaphosa to meet Lourenco over DR Congo crisis

Thursday, August 08, 2024

DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has accused his predecessor Joseph Kabila of preparing an insurrection. PHOTO COURTESY

Tshisekedi accuses Kabila of 'planning an insurrection'

Thursday, August 08, 2024

An aerial drone photo taken on April 3, 2024, shows a city view in Nairobi, Kenya. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

PHOTOS: Chinese-built road transforming lives of mothers in Kenya

Thursday, August 08, 2024

The Rwandan delegation during the meeting in Luanda on Wednesday, August 7. Courtesy

Intelligence experts meet in Luanda over DR Congo security

Wednesday, August 07, 2024

M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo. The rebels' spokesperson said that a ceasefire that took effect on Monday, August 5, should open the door to direct dialogue” with DR Congo government.

M23 rebels want ongoing ceasefire to ‘open door to dialogue’

Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Kenya’s only homegrown automaker, Mobius Motors Kenya, is shutting down after 13 years of operations.

Kenya’s Mobius Motors shuts down

Wednesday, August 07, 2024

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) meets with the Army Chief of Staff of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Maj Gen Vincent Nyakarundi on Tuesday, August 6. Photos by Davis Higiro

PHOTOS: CAR President Touadéra meets Gen Nyakarundi

Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Nearly 100 police officers from DR Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in DR Congo's east intensified. Courtesy

Over 90 DR Congo police officers with guns, ammo flee to Uganda as fighting intensifies

Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Faustin-Archange Touadéra, the Central African Republic (CAR) President speaks to journalists after presiding over the pass out at Camp Kassai on Monday, August 5. Photo by Davis Higiro

CAR President Touadéra presides over pass-out of Rwanda-trained troops

Tuesday, August 06, 2024

The High Commissioner-Designate of Rwanda to Tanzania, Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, and Amb. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania, interact shortly after the former presented copies of his letters of credence, on Monday, August 5. Courtesy of Rwanda High Commission in Tanzania

Nyamvumba presents letters of credence to Tanzania minister of foreign affairs

Monday, August 05, 2024

Some of the 634 Central African Armed Forces (FACA) soldiers trained by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), during the graduation ceremony in Bangui on Monday, August 5. Photos by Davis Higiro

PHOTOS: Over 600 Rwanda-trained CAR soldiers graduate

Monday, August 05, 2024

Gen Nyakarundi addresses Rwandan troops CAR in the capital Bangui on August 4. Courtesy of RDF.

CAR: RDF army chief briefs Rwandan troops on regional security

Monday, August 05, 2024

A herdsboy walks on a dry land in Samburu County, Kenya on July 15,2021.

Global bodies issue drought alert in Horn of Africa

Sunday, August 04, 2024

The East African Community One Network Area expanded with the entry of Burundi, effective August 1. Burundi joined Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania, as partner states that implemented the ONA that effectively reduces the high cost of telecommunications in the region.

Burundi becomes sixth country to join EAC’s One Network Area, enjoy reduced communication costs

Friday, August 02, 2024

(L-R) Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, DR Congo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Angolan foreign minister Tete Antonio and Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe at the second ministerial meeting on the security and peace situation in eastern DR Congo in Luanda, Angola, on July 30. Courtesy

Rwanda, DR Congo, Angola intelligence experts to examine FDLR neutralisation plan

Thursday, August 01, 2024

Jacob Zuma attends a campaign of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 18, 2024. South Africa's Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, ruled on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run for parliament in the upcoming elections. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Xinhua)

Zuma expelled from South Africa's ruling ANC

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide lays a wreath to pay tribute to victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi at Kigali Genocide Memorial on Monday, July 29. Courtes

UN official renews call to hold genocidaires in DR Congo accountable

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The Judge President of the East African Court of Justice, Justice Nestor Kayobera (left), the Chief Justice of Somalia, Bashe Yusuf Ahmed (centre) and EACJ Principal Judge Yohanne Masara at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

PHOTOS: Somalia seeks to learn from experiences, expertise of East African Court of Justice – official

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Left to right: Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, DR Congo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Angola's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tete Antonio, who was the host and mediator, and Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, as well as members of their respective delegations, pose for a picture at the end of the second ministerial meeting on the security and peace situation in eastern DR Congo, in Luanda, Angola, on Tuesday, July 30. Courtesy

Second Luanda meeting calls for ceasefire in eastern DR Congo

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe (R), and Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, DR Congo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during the second ministerial meeting on the security and peace situation in eastern DR Congo in Luanda, Angola, on Tuesday, July 30. The bilateral meeting was chaired by Angola's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tete Antonio who was a mediator. Courtesy

PHOTOS: Angola hosts meet between Rwanda, DR Congo foreign ministers

Tuesday, July 30, 2024