The United States said Friday it will provide more than $14 million in security assistance to Kenya to boost efforts to combat terrorist activities in the east African nation.The fund will be used ...
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Despite recent setbacks to Islamic radicals in Somalia, foreign terrorists are still able to find a safe haven there because of a lack of governance in the country, contributing to a growing securi...
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Fear gripped residents of the East African coast following
reports of strong earthquakes in southwestern parts of Indonesia's
Sumatra Island on Wednesday and Thursday.
Kenyan and Tanzanian...
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The initiative has signed onto support the 8th Annual Black August Hip Hop Benefit Concert as a media sponsor, and in turn the theme for the New York and Tanzania, East Africa shows, will highlight...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Kenyans headed to the polls Thursday in the
country's closest-ever elections that have provoked fears of
intimidation and violence in a country known for rel...
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An alleged al-Qaida operative captured in Kenya and accused of participating in a string of attacks in East Africa is the newest prisoner at Guantanamo, sent to the remote base because he is though...
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Lusaka (dpa) - Zambian Vice-President Rupiah Banda has said that
political instability and chronic poverty in some southern African
countries make them fertile ground for te...
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Nairobi (dpa) - A discovery in Kenya of fossils more than a
million years old "changes the story" of human evolution, showing
that two human species coexisted rather than su...
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A Kenyan human rights group on Wednesday demanded an inquiry into the shooting of 14 Kenyans by the Tanzanian police, who said the Kenyans were planning to rob a bank.A statement by the Oscar Found...
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Kampala, Uganda (dpa) - Uganda on Monday opened a factory that
will manufacture drugs for AIDS patients, with the intention of
slashing import costs for the country's infect...
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