Tracking East Africa’s politics, peace, innovation and power plays from Ethiopia to Kenya and beyond.
Ugandan opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine has announced he will run for president again in the upcoming 2026 elections, scheduled for January. The 43-year-old whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, will challenge long-serving President Yoweri Museveni, who is expected to seek re-election at 80. Wine previously ran in 2021, coming second, but rejected […]
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir appointed a prominent opposition leader, Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, as transport minister on Wednesday, ending the veteran politician’s prolonged exclusion from the transitional unity government despite his role in the 2018 peace agreement. The announcement, broadcast by the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), comes amid heightened political tensions and setbacks in the […]
A court in Kenya has sentenced four men to one year in prison or to pay a fine of $7,700 each, for trying to smuggle thousands of live queen ants out of the country. Authorities said the giant insects were destined for collectors in Europe and Asia in what is seen as an emerging trend […]
President William Ruto’s speech was briefly cut short after a resident hit him with a shoe as he addressed a crowd at Kehancha, his last stop on his first-day visit to Migori County. The president, who was concluding his speech before he invited other leaders to speak, was left shocked as the huge shoe flew […]
Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has appointed veteran diplomat Dafallah Al-Haj Ali as acting prime minister on Wednesday, weeks after the military recaptured large parts of the capital, Khartoum, from rival forces. According to a statement from the council, Burhan, who also chairs Sudan’s transitional sovereign council, approved the appointment of current ambassador Omar […]
Kenyan households experienced a higher cost of living in April, official data shows, as inflation rose to an eight-month high of 4.1 per cent. This is up from 3.6 per cent in March as inflation, the measure of the cost of living, went up for the sixth straight month since November last year, after a record […]
Kenyan Member of Parliament, Charles Ong’ondo Were, has been shot dead in a suspected assassination along a busy street in Nairobi, in what police have described as a targeted and planned attack. According to the BBC, gunmen on a motorcycle reportedly trailed the legislator’s vehicle before one of them alighted and opened fire at close […]
Uganda has officially declared the end of its sixth Ebola virus outbreak, which killed at least two people since it began in late January. The announcement came after 42 days without a new infection, following the discharge of the last confirmed patient on March 14, 2025. “The current Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak has officially […]
Kenya’s president, William Ruto, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday evening for the start of a four-day state visit to China. It is the third time since taking office that Ruto visits China. He previously attended the Third Road and Belt Forum in October 2023 and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in September 2024. The visit, […]
