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3 weeks ago | 
theeastafrican.co.ke
TangaYetu affirms a powerful lesson: when youth are empowered with skills, resources, and trust, they become architects of change.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Roselyne Obala
Some IDP camps are rapidly emptying, with large numbers of people heading for neighbouring areas, including their homes.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Julius Barigaba
The mosque of the Aga Khan’s coronation in Old Kampala takes on more significance following his death.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Abdulkadir Khalif
The attacks have paralysed key neighbourhoods, with markets in Ceelasha Biyaha, Yaqshid and Heliwa districts disrupted as traders fear violence.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Vincent Owino
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants Kinshasa to consolidate thousands of government-related accounts into one to improve transparency, as part of the conditions of a new financing deal that will see the country receive $2.87 billion over three years.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Vincent Owino
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has raised $523 million (¥81.3 billion) in its inaugural issue of a Samurai bond, making it one of the only few African institutions to raise funds in the unique Japanese market. A Samurai bond is a Japanese yen-denominated facility aimed primarily at individual and institutional investors in the Asian powerhouse, and provides a means of raising funds in Japan capital markets.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Fred Oluoch
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took to the podium in Nairobi on Monday to refute accusations of civilian rights abuses, including ethnic cleansing, rape and murder. In a rare press conference since the war started in April last year, the RSF delegation appeared in Nairobi to deny the allegations and defend President William Ruto for allowing them space in Kenya.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Ndi Eugene Ndi
Gabonese voters approved a new constitution by a landslide 91.8 percent, the interior minister said on Sunday, after a referendum that the ruling junta promised would be a stepping stone to democratic rule. Speaking on state television, Minister Hermann Immongault said turnout was an estimated at 53.5 percent. General Brice Oligui Nguema, the interim president, had touted Saturday’s vote as a sign of the government’s commitment to a democratic transition, tentatively scheduled for 2025.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Sammy Lutta
The Karamoja region of north-eastern Uganda has long experienced severe conflict and insecurity, fuelled by poverty and a lack of proper communications infrastructure. And the proliferation of small arms and light weapons didn’t help. Together with neighbouring Turkana in Kenya, and Eastern Equatorial State of South Sudan; they formed a deadly triangle of violent raids. Government officials started to take note at the turn of the millennium.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
theeastafrican.co.ke | Joachim Buwembo
It is possible that the news most Africans followed beyond their borders were the US election outcome and Equatorial Guinea’s finance guy who encroached on hundreds of high profile married women. What we need to figure out is what value we gained by following and discussing those two issues. It could turn out that they were both equally not very useful to us.