The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier. The official theme of child and maternal mortality will likely be overshadowed by discussion of the AU’s mission in...

Seven days after four journalists and their driver were kidnapped by gunmen, it is the same old story by the Nigeria Police Force: “We are doing everything to get them released.” But the national president of the Nigeria Union of...

The United Nations is investigating the alleged LRA massacre of at least 100 people in DR Congo in February. Mr John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said on a visit to the country last week that an investigation was underway to find out what exactly...

President Museveni last night told visiting Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Uganda does not support acquisition of nuclear weapons by new countries. In a speech delivered over dinner at State House Entebbe, Mr Museveni, however, insisted...

Namibia is seeking to amend the country’s constitution to make it harder for foreign nationals to attain Namibian citizenship. Namibian Prime Minister, Nahas Angula recently introduced into parliament a bill to amend the Namibian...

Nigeria has joined other countries backing the candidacy of Malawian PresidentMr Bingu Wa Mutharika to head the African Union at the summit of the Heads of State of the continent body beginning tomorrow in Addis-Ababa.

Police in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ignace Murwanashyaka, the leader of the FDLR rebel group, and his aide Straton Musoni were held on suspicion...

He is reliving the moment when he escaped death in the “land of blood and tears.” “In 1990, I was a very small, and I saw so many things,” he said. “The war took us away in the forest, and we started running. They killed...