**Following a meeting of Ethiopian government representatives and Tigrayan officials, former Kenya President and mediator Uhuru Kenyatta announces he will travel to Tigray's capital Mekele with the African Union's monitoring and verification team to check on the implementation of...
Wenesday ( Dec. 21) a life sentence for four suspects allegedly involved in the 2016 machine-gun assault on a beach resort that killed 19.
He also asked for life for 14 other suspects being tried in absentia. They are either on...
The representatives of Ethiopia’s government and Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) senior commanders met in Nairobi Wednesday (Dec 21).
The meeting was meant for a consultation on the implementation of the November peace agreement signed in South Africa on November,...
Rwanda is the most innovative economy among low income countries.
According to the latest Global innovation index, the eastern African nation ranks first of its income group before Madagascar and Ethiopia and sits on 9th spot of the sub-Saharan African group.
The...
Africa is the world’s least electrified continent. Nearly 600 million people remain without access to electricity in Africa.
Yet the pandemic, with its attendant lockdowns, supply chain disruptions and diversion of fiscal resources by governments did even further damage.
According to...
Comoros will assume the chairmanship of the African Union in 2023, the first time the island nation is being entrusted with the assignment.
Comoros was handed the responsibility after Kenya withdrew its bid.
President Azali Assoumani and his Kenyan counterpart William...
Health authorities in Uganda have announced changes in the strategy used to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the country.
The announcement follows the arrival in Uganda of two more shipments of the Ebola-trial vaccine.
"The trial will not stop. What will be done is only a revision of the protocol to change the methodology from giving...
Three lions were shot dead in Sudan after trying to escape from their enclosure inside a base of Sudan's feared paramilitary forces, an animal shelter official said Thursday.
Named Leo, Renas and Amani, the felines were born two years ago...
A new report by the European Investment Bank says Africa could make $1.1 trillion from the sale and use of green hydrogen.
It says harnessing Africa’s solar energy to produce 50 million tons of green hydrogen a year by 2035...
Journalists in Somalia have denounced the latest media directive issued by the government.
Last week the Somali authorities ordered all news outlets to submit content for approval before it goes on air.
The decision follows recent warnings by the government against publishing al-Shabab content.
The Somali government is currently engaged in a military campaign against al-Shabab extremists.
Journalists claim...