George Obulutsa

The Somali militants say they staged an attack in Kenya in which 28 people were shot dead.

The US embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan city of Mombasa and asked its workers to leave the coastal town.

Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

East African Breweries is buying SABMiller’s 20% stake in its Kenyan unit as part of a deal to end a partnership that allowed the firms

Drought has slashed capacity at Kenya’s main dams, forcing shutdowns and leading to reliance on costly diesel-powered generators.

African countries which export textiles to the United States are calling for an extension to a US law which gives them favourable market access.

A UN court trying masterminds of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on Monday gave a 30-year jail sentence to a former interior minister.

The global slump makes it even more important for African governments to help local businesses by cutting red tape, an investment group said on Friday

Tanzania needs about ,5-billion over the next five years to revamp its power sector, but the financial crisis may make access to funds harder.

Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway to cope with increased trade between the east African countries and their landlocked neighbours

Tanzania has charged two former ministers with impropriety over the award of a mineral audit tender in 2002, court documents showed.

African Union chair Tanzania wants to see a 50-50 power-sharing deal agreed for Zimbabwe immediately to stem a growing economic crisis.

Tanzania is expected to increase its rate of economic growth this year from last year’s 7,3% and to get inflation below the average 2007 level of 7% by mid-2009.

Foreign investors buying Kenya’s Safaricom stock will pay a 0,5 shilling premium per share over the five Kenya shillings that domestic investors will be paying, the government…

Hopes faded on Sunday for 65 miners feared drowned in Tanzania after floods swept through a remote gemstone mine near Mount Kilimanjaro. Manyara regional commissioner Henry…