Frank Nyakairu

Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.

Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army said on Monday a report that its members killed hundreds of villagers in the DRC late last year was fabricated.

Kenya has increased security on its porous desert border with Somalia ahead of an expected offensive by Somali government forces.

Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23-million east Africans towards severe hunger and destitution, Oxfam said on Tuesday.

Tribal violence in southern Sudan has killed at least 1 200 people this year, the UN’s peacekeeping coordinator says.

Holding a sheep on its hind legs, a man sank a spear into its neck. Those present drank its blood and splashed the rest around the catchment area.

Somalis fleeing war and hunger at home are pouring into neighbouring Kenya at an average rate of 7 000 a month, the UN said on Thursday.

A UN official began investigations on Monday into alleged brutality by Kenyan security forces, including accusations of summary executions by police.

Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the East African country.

Changing weather patterns in Uganda may lead to the extinction of the East African country’s key export, coffee, in coming decades, Oxfam said.

Uganda’s fugitive rebel, Joseph Kony, has broken months of silence to call for the resumption of peace talks that collapsed in April.

Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have abducted at least 100 children from neighbouring countries to use as sex slaves and porters, an international human rights group said…