Basillioh Rukanga

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Reuters Boniface Mwangi was arrested in Dar es Salaam on Monday An activist detained in Tanzania for three days has been released shortly after Kenya’s foreign ministry demanded his release. A top official in the […]

Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information

The body which runs Nigeria’s university-entrance exams has admitted to a “technical glitch” which compromised some results of this year’s tests, after nearly 80% of students got low grades. Students have complained about not being able to log in to

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Reuters Kenya’s President William Ruto is a man of many nicknames. El Chapo, Kasongo, Hustler, Deputy Jesus and Chicken Seller are just some that he has acquired in recent years. As is often the case

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News AFP People from Lesotho are called Basotho US President Donald Trump has said that “nobody has ever heard of” the African country of Lesotho – a comment that has “shocked” its government. It is a small

At least 46 people have been killed and 10 others injured after a Sudanese military plane crashed in a residential neighbourhood in Omdurman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum, state media says. The Antonov aircraft came down after take-off

Police in Uganda are investigating the death of a Nigerian professional footballer who allegedly fell from a shopping mall in the capital, Kampala. Abubakar Lawal, 29, reportedly fell from a third-floor balcony at the Voicemall Shopping Arcade, where he had

The Sudanese army says it has broken a near two-year siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the key southern state capital of el-Obeid. The breakthrough came hours after the RSF signed a political charter in the

Malian film director Souleymane Cissé, one of the pioneers of African cinema, has died aged 84. His daughter, Mariam Cissé, confirmed his death at a clinic in the capital Bamako, expressing shock and mourning “the loss of a man who

AFP A monument in honour of the late leader of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been unveiled in the Central African Republic (CAR). The statue of Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitru Utkin, who both died in a