PETER KAGWANJA : How China is consolidating its influence

>In mid-December last year, I warned that “elite fiddling with terrorism [is] pushing democracy to the brink”.

The East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) have this morning jointly launched Round-Tables for Consolidating Regional Stability through Peaceful Elections in the Republic of Burundi at the Royal Palace Hotel, in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Themed Peaceful Elections in Burundi for Regional Integration, the COMESA-EAC Roundtables are joint dialogue initiatives/activities geared towards promoting a peaceful environment for elections, prevent...

The prospect of Scottish independence is raising fears in Europe that it could inflame other separatist movements at a time when the continent’s unity and even its borders are under threat, analysts say.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the former Army chief, is the fifth Egyptian leader drawn from the armed forces.

In the morning of July 1, last year, when five million residents of Dar es Salaam woke up to a lifetime shock and couldn’t believe their eyes weren’t cheating. Some thought they had been caught by the wrong hop.  

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AG rules out foreign influence on Katiba
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ATTORNEY General, Fredrick Werema has maintained that there is no foreign legal entity with legitimacy to challenge the outcome of the ongoing processes of writing Tanzania's new constitution. The AG's comments comes as a reaction to a statement of the ...

>A whip lash cuts across your back the shock of it too harsh for you to conjure tears, as a wail escapes your lips. You’re on the fields of a clove plantation back in colonial times, your crime was leaving early so you can go breastfeed your daughter. When the ordeal is over later in the evening a fellow worker, your trusted friend Naetwe tries to put herbs on your back as you’re delirious in pain.

The Russian airline Kogalymavia blames "external activity" for Saturday's deadly Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.