East Africa

Paul Rusesabagina, in distinction to Paul Kagame, who had acquired Belgian citizenship, is at the moment on trial for terrorism in Kigali. The verdict in his trial is predicted on September 20. He was going through life in jail. Known for saving the lives of a thousand folks through the 1994 Tutsi genocide, Paul Rusesabagina-…

During an official go to to France, Andry Rajoelina introduced a attainable opening of the Malagasy borders to all foreigners. Access to Madagascar has been extraordinarily restricted since March 2020, a 12 months and a half in the past, the day of the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic on the island. as reported from…

After Uganda, it is Rwanda's turn to welcome refugees from Afghanistan. While the first plane filled with people fleeing the Taliban's capture of Kabul arrived in Kampala on Wednesday, Kigali is waiting for an entire school to arrive. This is the Afghanistan School of Leadership, the only boarding school for young girls in the country. It was the founder of the facility who announced it on Twitter on…

A gunman killed three law enforcement officials and a personal safety guard on Wednesday in a ransacking of a diplomatic quarter in Tanzania's foremost metropolis, Dar es Salaam, earlier than being shot whereas locked in a guardhouse on the door of the French Embassy. Internet movies, apparently filmed by spectators from buildings reverse the French Embassy, ​​confirmed the gunman contained in the guard submit. He exchanged gunshots from a really brief distance with law enforcement officials and males who seemed to be…

The humanitarian disaster is deepening in northern Ethiopia. The War Theater Since November, the province of Tigray has almost a million individuals in a state of famine. The TPLF occasion in Tigray attacked the close by Amhara area in an effort to blow up the humanitarian blockade. But this offensive has displaced greater than 150,000 individuals within the Amhara area, who're struggling to answer the…

Tonight Uganda welcomes its first group of refugees fleeing Afghanistan, we head to South Africa as the country has the highest unemployment rate in the world according to Bloomberg, and Yemeni fish become the dish national of Djibouti. .

Three law enforcement officials and a personal safety agent had been killed on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's financial capital, throughout a capturing that came about on a avenue with a number of overseas representations. The attacker was shot lifeless by police in entrance of the French embassy. His id and motives are nonetheless unknown.…

Somalis protest in opposition to Al-Shabaab as military steps up offensive GALKAYO, Somalia - Sections of Galkayo residents have gathered within the streets to protest in opposition to Al-Shabaab militants who've made forays into the world in central Somalia, a spot dominated by the Al-linked group. -Qaida. Al-Shabaab militants have stepped up their actions within the area, primarily…

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye was met on Tuesday in Bujumbura by representatives of the judiciary. He took the chance to strongly condemn, in line with him, the "corruption" that plagues Burundian justice, which is "shameful" and which he accuses of being the premise of all illnesses within the nation. During his…

A brand new arrest happened in reference to the Floribert Chebeya affair, the human rights activist was murdered together with his accomplice Fidèle Bazana in June 2010 within the nationwide police amenities. Brigadier General-Ngoy Ilunga Doudou, on the run for 11 years, was arrested on Tuesday, August 24 in Lubumbashi. as…