[Today, Uganda – the Pearl of Africa – becomes the third of the five East African Community (EAC) nations to mark 50 years of its independence. Rwanda and Burundi clocked 50 three months back on July 1, and now Uganda has followed…

[No peace is to be found on Rustenburg’s platinum belt – tensions are rising at Amplats, where a worker was shot dead by police last week and 12,000 workers got sacked. Strikers said they’d die before allowing new labour on site, while…

[France announced Thursday it will circulate a draft U.N. resolution aimed at stepping up pressure on Mali’s government and its West African neighbors to agree quickly on a workable military plan to oust Islamic militants who seized the north and are turning…

[Les soldats somaliens et ceux de lUnion africaine (UA) sont entrés lundi dans Kismayo, dans le sud-est de la Somalie, désertée par les islamistes shebab depuis plus de 48 heures. Selon les témoignages des habitants, les premiers soldats du contingent kényan de…

[The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mali’s government have agreed to the deployment of a standby force to the West African country, where Islamist militants control the north. “Thankfully, there is now a consensus around the mandate of the…

[‘You want to annoy the soldiers and they topple me!’President Museveni stormed out of a heated caucus with NRM lawmakers on Monday after they failed to buy into his rigid stance on the Defence ministry’s budget. Museveni had told the lawmakers that…

[West Africa’s regional body is gearing up for a tough fight to help Mali’s government forces reclaim the north of the country from Islamist militants, telling the U.N. Security Council on Monday it needs major combat assets, including fighter jets.Mali descended into…

[A wave of deadly night-time raids and revenge attacks involving two ethnic groups in Kenya has seen more than 100 people brutally killed in recent weeks.Men, women and children have been murdered, variously by bullets, machetes and spears, while some were burned…

[Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent warships toward Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in related violence this week.In Libya, authorities…