A South Sudanese MP was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in northern Uganda. Jacob Kuwinsuk Gale, MP for Yei River State died of his wounds while being taken to hospital, officials said.

President Pierre Nkurunziza has handed the African Union an interesting problem. In his first reaction to the AU’s plan to send 5,000 troops to stop the cycle of killings in Burundi, Nkurunziza openly declared that his troops would fight those forces. What will the AU do? There is still room for a negotiated way out […]