East Africa

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Zambian counterpart in a telephone call on Tuesday that China was willing...

By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eritrean forces shelled a town in north Ethiopia over the weekend, according to internal...

BENI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants killed 15 civilians in an attack on a village in northeast Democratic Republic of...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Security forces fanned out across a wide swathe of central Khartoum on Thursday, a Reuters reporter witnessed,...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister suspended the foreign minister on Tuesday, citing the authorisation of a ship exporting charcoal...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian authorities have arrested more than 4,000 people in the northern Amhara region, local state media...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A prominent Ethiopian general critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government appeared in court on Friday...

By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by...

By Giulia Paravicini and Katharine Houreld ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Authorities in Ethiopia's war-shattered Tigray region are forcing young people to...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Thirty-six aspirants are competing in Somalia's long-delayed presidential election on Sunday, to be decided by parliament in...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Explosions sounding like mortar shells were heard on Sunday in the area of Mogadishu airport where parliamentarians...

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican's number two said on Friday that supplying weapons to Ukraine to help...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two former presidents will face off against the incumbent in Somalia's long-delayed presidential vote on...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Protais Mpiranya, one of the last remaining fugitives sought over the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been confirmed...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Almost 40 candidates have registered for Somalia's long-delayed presidential election on Sunday, to be decided by parliament...

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban rescue workers combed through vast piles of rubble from the Hotel Saratoga in...

By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban rescue workers on Saturday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after...

By Cecile Mantovani and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The largest white diamond ever auctioned will go under the hammer in...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali lawmakers are expected to pick the country's new president on May 15, a...