East Africa

Kenya’s Chief of the Defence Forces Julius Karangi has cast doubts on intellectuals joining the military. Karangi says people with good grades do not make...

GENEVA — The United Nations has launched a two-year, multi-million-dollar appeal to help one-quarter-million people in the tiny East African country of Djibouti recover...

Nairobi, Kenya - Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, Britain warned Thursday, after suicide...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hard-won security gains in Somalia could be undermined unless the rest of the world steps up support to improve Somalis' lives,...

Kenya - Deputy President William Ruto has managed to convince rebels in South Sudan to release a Kenyan plane that was seized in the...

MOGADISHU - A notorious Somali warlord allied to the Islamist al-Shabaab and on UN sanction lists has agreed to quit the extremists, the information...

A moderate Muslim cleric has been shot dead in Mombasa, the latest killing of a preacher in the Kenyan city. Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of...

Mogadishu - Thousands of children in war-torn Somalia are facing death or disability due to an outbreak of highly contagious measles, the United Nations...

Kenya: Two executives of a Chinese telecoms firm, ZTE, battling to retain a multi-billion-shilling tender to supply police with communication and surveillance equipment have...

Nairobi - Eleven sailors mostly from Asia held hostage for almost four years by Somali pirates have been freed and are safe on their...