The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo met in Nairobi for the first time since tensions between the regions escalated in recent years. Reports claim the DRC doesn’t want Rwanda to be part of the East African community standby force in the DRC. The African Union has endorsed the decision to send…
In our series of letters from African writers, media consultant and trainer Joseph Warungu writes about plans to build a huge museum in Ghana to reflect the history and heritage of Africans. A new migration of Africans is about to happen. The Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, the Himba of Namibia, the Somali of the…
The First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame, spoke of the new challenges facing women across the world at the Commonwealth Women’s Forum taking place in the capital, Kigali. The Forum runs alongside the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that opened on Monday and culminates with high-level meetings on Friday and Saturday. “From the disproportionate impact of climate change on women…
Suspected jihadists have massacred more than 130 civilians over the weekend in central Mali. The government announced the deaths on Monday after alarming social media reports talked of houses and huts being burnt and of abductions. Local officials described scenes of systematic killings by armed men in Diallassagou and two surrounding towns in the Bankass…
By PARTICK ILUNGA The East African Community (EAC) leaders will be in Nairobi on Monday for a meeting convened by President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The EAC conclave, whose members are Kenya, DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, was set up to encourage dialogue between…
By DAVID MAYEN South Sudan Minister for Water and Irrigation died in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday morning, his political party chairman Dr Riek Machar confirmed. Peter Manawa Gatkuoth, who was appointed during the formation of the revitalised coalition government in March 2020, died of high blood pressure in an unnamed hospital in Cairo,…
Doctors have joined nurses and other healthcare workers in Zimbabwe for Monday’s strike. Since coming into office in 2018, the health and childcare minister has never met with health workers. Zimbabwe Health Apex Council says 4 000 nurses have left government employment in the last three years. Doctors, nurses and other health sector workers in Zimbabwe have put…
Witnesses say more than 200 people killed in the attacked blamed on the OLA rebels, but no official confirmation on casualty yet. More than 100 people, mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, have been killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, according to witnesses, who blamed the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) for one of…
A gold-crowned tooth is all that remains of assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba. Shot dead by a firing squad in 1961 with the tacit backing of former colonial power Belgium, his body was then buried in a shallow grave, dug up, transported 200km (125 miles), interred again, exhumed and then hacked to pieces and…
Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Dénis Mukwege and Interior Minister Daniel Aselo have called for an end to reported attacks targeting ethnic Tutsis living in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scenes of people carrying machetes while hunting for Tutsis in the capital, Kinshasa, and other major towns circulated on social media over the weekend. Audio…