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Region braces for tough times as food crisis is forecast

The delay of the long rains could lead to poor harvests.

Women carry food in

EU warns of worsening situation in Cameroon

Demonstrators march during a protest against

State, separatists accused of killing civilians and human rights abuses

Sudan army orders protesters to tear down barricades

Sudanese protesters shout slogans and wave national flags during a protest outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on April 22, 2019. PHOTO | AFP

Tensions grew after talks between the military and protesters broke down.

Kenya lobbies for seat on UN Security Council

Foreign Affairs PS Macharia Kamau speaks on April 16, 2019. Kenya has intensified lobbying among peers to gain a seat on the UN Security Council. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

There will be two seats up for grabs for Africa in September.

Bobi Wine detained, supporters clash with police

Police surround Bobi Wine's car before his arrest at One Love Beach-Busabala on April 22, 2019. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR

Police had been instructed to block his planned music concerts.

Business
Mauritians eyeing more investments in East Africa

Rest of Africa
Sudan protest leaders halt talks with military

World
Sri Lanka government orders new curfew after attacks

Rest of Africa
Suspected jihadists kill 12 Mali soldiers: security source

Rest of Africa
The 'presidential' marriage causing unease in Angola

News

Sudan army orders protesters to tear down barricades

Sudan army orders protesters to tear down barricades

Tensions grew after talks between the military and protesters broke down.

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Demonstrators march during a protest against

EU warns of worsening situation in Cameroon

State, separatists accused of killing civilians and human rights abuses

Algeria protests: Police 'detain top businessmen'

Africa at a glance

Kenya lobbies for seat on UN Security Council

Bobi Wine detained, supporters clash with police

Sudan protest leaders halt talks with military

Suspected jihadists kill 12 Mali soldiers: security source

Sri Lanka government orders new curfew after attacks

Business

Mauritians eyeing more investments in East Africa

Mauritians eyeing more investments in East Africa

Kenya has attracted the largest number of investors mostly in financial services, sugar sector.

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Women carry food in gunny bags from an aid distribution centre in South Sudan on March 10, 2017. East Africa may soon face a food crisis of delayed rains. PHOTO | AFP

Region braces for tough times as food crisis is forecast

The delay of the long rains could lead to poor harvests.

Inflation nightmare returns to haunt Zimbabwe

Is Dar back in bed with Bretton-Woods institutions?

WB approves another grant for refugees in Uganda

NMG shareholders to earn $9.42m after $10m profit

KCB announces intention to acquire troubled NBK

Zambia claimants inch closer to compensation by UK' s Vedanta

KPA seeking nod to eject state agencies from Mombasa

Opinion

Austerity’s out of the stained glass window for Notre Dame

Austerity’s out of the stained glass window for Notre Dame

This architectural wonder has hosted numerous French national events.

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Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's ousted president, at the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum on December 31, 2018. PHOTO | FILE | AFP

Blankets n’ Wine: Youth have left Bashir behind

Khartoum’s streets were full of lively young men and women

EA must fear rallying of world powers, militaries in Red Sea arena

EDITORIAL: Leaders are fighting and the rains are failing

Platitudes seem to be good enough for Uhuru, he’ll never be a Deng

Ugandans do more than Trump to confuse outsiders

Abiy disinters demons buried over 3,000 years

Want to be kama Ulaya? Me, I’m enjoying Brexit

Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?

The Magazine

Discover Lamu at the Majlis

Discover Lamu at the Majlis

Majlis inspires relaxation and romance.

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The launch of East Africa Got Talent show.

COMING SOON: East Africa's Got Talent show

It is open to people with any kind of talent and will be hosted by Anne Kansiime.

Artistic, restyled interiors at Sankara Nairobi

Kenya launches Women Birders Association

DR IDRO: Passionate about children’s health

Displacement and discovery in ‘The Dragonfly Sea’

Remembering Tingatinga, the legendary artist

Sacrebleu! Time to re-boot batteries

Speak softly but wield a big stick

Science & Health

Kenya issues cholera alert

Kenya issues cholera alert

The cholera cases are linked to the current water shortage in the country.

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Morphine tablets

Morphine is coming around again to Tanzania

Govt says a new consignment of morphine will be available this month.

Astronomers deliver first photo of black hole

The ‘family doctors’ who stay on call for no pay

Cancer causing pathogens found in slum groundwater

Ebola toll tops 700 in DR Congo

Diseases gobble up $2.4 trillion in Africa

Congo Ebola outbreak spreading faster than ever

Mozambique cholera cases rise

Sports

Bayern open first African football school in Addis Ababa

Bayern open first African football school in Addis Ababa

Partnership which will involve coaching exchanges and the development of local players.

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Kenyan's Asbel Kiprop celebrates after winning in the 1500m men's race during the Diamond League athletics competition at the Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, on May 6, 2016. PHOTO | AFP PHOTO

Kenyan Asbel Kiprop handed four-year doping ban

Former Olympian slapped ban after having tested positive to blood boosting Erythropoietin (EPO) .

Kenya draw Tanzania, Senegal in Cup of Nations

Kenya's Lonyangata eyes Paris Marathon record

Afcon: Here come East Africans

Man United give Solskjaer full-time job

FIFA backs 48-team World Cup in 2022

Ferrari feeling good as new F1 season launches

Kenyan Olympian Daniel Rudisha dies aged 73