African News

Somali government forces have ended a more than five hours long al-Shabaab siege of the compound housing the Mogadishu mayor’s office. The ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said security forces shot dead six al-Shabaab fighters behind Sunday’s attack. Five civilians were killed and four others were injured, the statement added. The government said the al-Shabaab attackers arrived at the ...

Malawi’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, has fired the country’s director of public prosecutions, Steven Kayuni, for allegedly abusing his office to avenge what he saw as a personal slight. The President announced the dismissal during a televised national address Wednesday. Chakwera was reacting to the findings of a commission of inquiry he established last month to investigate the circumstances that led ...

A bomb blast in a church in Eastern DR Congo has killed at least 10 people and injured 39 others. The attack blamed on suspected Islamists happened yesterday. The specifics on the attack are a little hazy but reports say the attack happened in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province. After the bomb blast, authorities arrested a Kenyan at ...

Many people have started asking many questions after a number of hospitals conducted failed circumcision procedures in Kenya. 18 boys were admitted to various hospitals with one dying after being put through the procedure. Last month, 6 boys were admitted at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. One of the boys arrived in a very critical condition after ...

South Sudan is sending 750 troops to join the East Africa Force trying to bring peace in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is despite its own struggles to restore peace back home. President Salva Kiir officially deployed troops to the Eastern DR Congo to join an East African regional force to end decades of bloodshed in that country. ...