M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst atrocities by the armed group since its resurgence in late 2021, Human Rights Watch has said in a report.
This is despite a peace process, (...)
Burkina Faso's junta has expelled the UN's top official to the West African nation over a report about children caught up in the militant conflict.
Carol Flore-Smereczniak was declared "persona non grata" because of her role in drafting the report (...)
The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation.
"Our children are dying before our eyes," one of them tells the BBC.
"We don't know what to do. They are innocent. They have nothing (...)
At least 25 people were killed Friday when a 51-seater bus carrying mourners from a funeral overturned in western Kenya, police said.
Nyanza Regional Traffic Commander Peter Maina told reporters the accident occurred at the Coptic Roundabout, a (...)
An investigation by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) into the "execution" of three of its workers during a humanitarian mission in Ethiopia's war-hit northern Tigray region has found evidence that the country's army was responsible for (...)
The death toll from Kenya's anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, the state-funded human rights commission said on Tuesday.
It marks the highest single-day toll since demonstrations began earlier this year. Over 50 people have (...)
Kenya's security forces have blocked all major roads leading into central Nairobi, ahead of planned nationwide protests.
Much of the city centre is deserted, with businesses shut and a heavy security presence on the streets. Some schools have (...)
At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government.
Police clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi and other cities exactly a (...)
Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of blogger Albert Ojwang.
Lagat had been under pressure to resign from the opposition and human rights activists as Ojwang (...)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature — a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness.
His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country — (...)
Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader Tundu Lissu.
Two colleagues accompanying her were also reportedly (...)
The Kenyan government has described as "shameful" an incident in which a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a rally on Sunday.
Ruto fended off a shoe thrown at him during a speech about the cost of living which has been a source of (...)
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's president, has confirmed the detention of an opposition leader's bodyguard, who has been missing for five days.
Edward Sebuufu, alias Eddie Mutwe, was reportedly picked up on Sunday by unidentified (...)
A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination.
Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the (...)
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC.
The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not (...)
Millions of African Catholics, as well as the continent's leaders, are mourning a man who they felt spoke for Africa.
Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic (...)
A 14-year-old girl was killed by a lion on the outskirts of Nairobi, according to a statement issued by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Sunday.
The girl was reportedly taken from a residential compound on a ranch adjacent to Nairobi National (...)
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
Lornoy David and (...)
A high-level international conference is under way in London to find "a pathway to peace" in Sudan, hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Sudan's civil war began exactly two years ago causing what aid agencies call the world's worst (...)
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who tried to occupy a church that was recently given a substantial donation by President William Ruto.
The gift to the Jesus Winner Ministry in the Roysambu suburb of Nairobi of 20m (...)
The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war, the BBC has learned. Aid volunteers said the impact of President Donald Trump's (...)
The bodies of at least 28 migrants have been recovered from a mass grave in a desert in south-east Libya, the country's attorney general said.
The grave was discovered north of Kufra, just days after another mass grave with 19 bodies was found on a (...)
Another contingent of 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Saturday as part of a UN-backed mission to address gang violence and restore stability in the Caribbean nation, the Kenyan presidency confirmed.
"The officers arrived Saturday in (...)
A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country's national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the national space agency.
The object has since been (...)
Kenyan business student Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by those campaigning for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with private firms.
Recent Kenyan history is littered with stories of huge contracts that have resulted (...)
