NAIROBI – Kenyan President William Ruto has announced seven days of national mourning and a state funeral for former prime minister Raila Odinga, who died on Wednesday following a cardiac…
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80, a source in Odinga’s office told Reuters on Wednesday, without giving further details. Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi earlier…
KAMPALA – Ugandan security agents have seized a collection of personal archives belonging to Dr. John Garang De Mabior, the late Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) leader, and arrested two…
LILONGWE – Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has conceded defeat in this month’s presidential election to his rival Peter Mutharika, in the impoverished Southern African nation, battered by soaring costs and…
JUBA – The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has graduated 48 officers and servicemen who completed their training in Bilinyang, east of Juba, South Sudan. Uganda has deployed several thousands…
TOBRUK, LIBYA – At least 50 people perished after a vessel attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe with 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire near the Libyan coast on…
NAIROBI – 42 million people will face severe hunger this year across six IGAD member states including South Sudan, according to the IGAD regional focus of the 2025 Global Report…
JUBA – A member of South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly has raised concern about Google’s positioning of River Kiir inside Sudan’s Eastern Darfur instead of Northern Bahr El Ghazal.…
ADDIS ABABA – President Salva Kiir says South Sudan will sign an agreement with Ethiopia in 2022 to import hydro electricity from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The mega…
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia will officially inaugurate Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a…