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At least 29 people have been confirmed dead after a boat carrying more than 100 passengers capsized in Lake Victoria on Saturday afternoon. Ugandan authorities say 40 others sustained injuries while several others are still trapped under the water in the submerged vessel. Ugandan media outlets…

Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is not able to walk, his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. President Mnangagwa says Mugabe has been receiving treatment in Singapore for the past two months and is unable to move by himself due to old age. "He (Mugabe) is now old. Of course, he now…

Former United States First Lady Michelle Obama, in her newly released memoir titled "Becoming", says her first trip to Kenya in 1992 together with Obama was compounded by troubles right from the airport. She explains how they struggled to move around with Obama's half sister, Auma's old and worn…

Ilhan Omar, a former refugee at Daadab camp in Kenya has become the first woman of Somali descent and second Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Minnesota's 5th congressional district. Ms Omar was brought up at the Kenyan refugee camp until the age of 12 when she moved…

Sahle-Work Zewde has been approved as the new Ethiopia President, becoming the first female President in the history of the Horn of Africa nation. Zewde, who has been working as United Nations under-secretary general and special representative of the secretary general to the African Union (AU), has…

The U.S. Secret Service says agents have intercepted packages containing “possible explosive devices” addressed to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The agency says neither Clinton nor Obama received the packages, and neither was at risk of receiving them because of screening…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claims that there was an attempt to kill him by soldiers who entered the grounds of his office last week. Ahmed says he thwarted the plan by ordering the military officers to do press-ups and joining in. The Prime Minister told Members of Parliament that although…

Uganda has unveiled one of Africa's longest bridges built across River Nile. The 525-metre long cable-stayed architectural masterpiece is the second of its kind in East Africa after 680m-long Kigamboni Bridge in Tanzania, which was commissioned recently. Dubbed The Source of Nile Bridge, it's the…

The United Kingdom has appointed a minister in charge of suicide prevention, becoming the first country in the world to have such a docket. British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Jackie Doyle-Price, a Conservative MP and current health minister to be in charge of the new ministry. …

United States First Lady Melania Trump has began her tour to Africa, marking her first solo international trip since assuming office in 2017. Melania will be in Ghana on Tuesday before proceeding to Malawi, Kenya and conclude her five-day tour in Egypt later in the week. Her tour on the continent…