East Africa

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By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' Congress unanimously repealed a law overnight which allowed for the creation of special...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The queues formed early each morning outside the Russian embassy in Ethiopia's capital...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark is in talks with Rwanda about setting up a new procedure for transferring asylum seekers to the...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned a British plan to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Somali lawmakers were sworn into office on Thursday, paving the way for...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya plans to deport the CEO of fuel storage and distribution company Rubis Energy Kenya over a...

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir ordered military officers loyal to his vice president, Riek Machar, to be...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - An elephant trampled to death a Colombian researcher who was studying chimpanzees in Kibali National Park in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States expressed concern on Friday about reports of ethnically motivated atrocities in Ethiopia's Tigray region and...