East Africa

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...

By Joseph Campbell and Alessandra Prentice ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, unleashing rockets...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda may take longer to introduce as the government faces...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed rights commission said on Monday it was investigating a video showing a group of...

(Reuters) - The United States wants the opposing sides involved in conflict in Ethiopia to advance a negotiated ceasefire and...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government said on Thursday that rebellious Tigrayan forces are still in the neighbouring region of...

By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia's lawmakers elected a new parliamentary speaker on Thursday following a tense standoff between African...

By Giulia Paravicini KASAGITA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Fifteen-year-old Eysa Mohammed was collecting water near her home in northern Ethiopia's Afar...

By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister has asked African Union soldiers to take over protection of lawmakers...

By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) -The seven countries of the East African Community (EAC) have agreed to set up a...

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Since Sudan's military staged a coup six months ago many former...

By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - The main hospital in Ethiopia's war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' Congress unanimously repealed a law overnight which allowed for the creation of special...