The Ugandan parliament has finally passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 which effectively criminalizes the act of homosexuality in the country. After years of debate amid international...
The United Nations has revealed that at least 21 civilians were killed over the weekend in several rebels attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of the...
A new report released on Monday by the United Nations has estimated that at least 43,000 people died in Somalia’s longest drought on record in 2022,...
Armed gunmen have killed nine Chinese nationals and wounded two at a gold mining site in the Chimbolo region of Central African Republic, authorities said on...
A 23-year-old Ugandan policewoman, PC Caroline Komuhangi, has been shot dead by her civilian lover following an altercation. The Kigezi regional police spokesperson, Elly Maate, who...
Seven South Sudanese journalists who have been in detention for circulating a video showing President Salva Kiir urinating on himself during the inauguration of a road...
The police in Ugandan Jinja City have arrested six men who were spotted in a gay video that has gone viral on social media, according to...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), says over 500,000 people have been affected by the tropical storm Cyclone Freddy in Malawi...
At least 17 primary schoolchildren were injured in Zimbabwe after their classroom collapsed into a sinkhole on Thursday, local authorities said, putting the blame the on...
The Zambian Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU), has sent a plane-load of humanitarian aid worth over $1 million to neighbouring Malawi, to assist survivors of...
Alepha Banda, a programmes officer at the Youth Development Foundation (YDF), says Zambia’s existing laws do not adequately safeguard journalists,...
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission has announced the start of the bidding process for 12 oil blocks recently put...
Ecobank, a pan-African banking group, has more than doubled its impairment losses on Ghana’s problematic Eurobonds to $183 million, highlighting...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Nigerian government may need to raise a supplementary budget to be able to...
Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, has claimed that Benin’s suspension of Niger’s oil shipments, imposed in reaction to...
Internet services across East and Southern Africa have suffered outages following undersea submarine cable cuts on Sunday. According to the...
Ghanaian rapper, Michael Owusu Addo, popularly known as Sarkodie, has sparked a new round of storm after he fired shots...
World 100m hurdle record-holder, Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, was the cynosure of all eyes as she stole the show at...
Ireen Mundia, a student journalist, has contributed to the discourse on media freedoms, drawing from her internship experience at Byta...
There were indications over the weekend that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) intends to collaborate with UK prosecutors...