Reports from Uganda indicate that a campaign to recruit fighters for Rwanda National Congress (RNC) a terror group that seeks to destabilize Kigali has intensified in camps hosting Rwandan refugees.

{CONGO: A U.S. citizen working as an adviser to Congo's leading opposition presidential candidate has been freed six weeks after being arrested during a street protest and will return to the United States, the general prosecutor said on Wednesday. Darryl Lewis, who was detained on April 24 along with three other members of Moise Katumbi's […]

{Kinshasa: A top ally of Congolese President Joseph Kabila on Saturday raised the possibility of a constitutional referendum. } This is in a bid to alter the number of terms President Kabila can serve. This defies opponents and western powers who insist Kabila should leave office this year. Term limits in Democratic Republic of Congo’s […]

{An Ethiopian state body that has been involved in leasing tracts of land for commercial farming has suspended the issuance of new licences until it completes a review because of scant progress in developing areas leased so far, an official said. } The Horn of Africa country in 2011 allocated 3.6 million hectares of land, […]

{Nairobi: A senior Burundi army officer and ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza was shot dead in the capital on Tuesday, army sources said, the latest in a series of killings in an almost year-long crisis that risks plunging the African nation back into war.} Lieutenant Colonel Darius Ikurakure was shot in the Defence Ministry by […]

{Constable Paul Rotich was attached to Itabua Police Station at the Eastern regional police headquarters while his wife identified as Agnes Wakaria in the dog section. } Embu West OCPD Francis Sang’ said Rotich was on night duty on Friday and left for supper in his house at around 9.30pm before they heard gunshots at […]