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Ethiopian forces in Somalia have admitted to shooting down a Kenyan cargo plane on Monday, leading to six deaths, on ‘mistaken identity’. A preliminary report filed by the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) indicated that the…

Kenya now has 343 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Saturday, saying a total of 98 people had recovered and that the death toll remained 14. Kenya, which reported its first case of Covid-19…

A 22-year-old Ugandan man who arrived in Rwanda from London on March 15 is among the four additional coronavirus cases who were Sunday identified through positive tests in Rwanda. This brings the number of people who have tested…

Uganda Revenue Authority has said another milk producer has been stopped from exporting milk to Kenya. According to Mr Ian Rumanyika, the URA manager corporate affairs, Lakeside Dairies had written to them requesting that it is…

The government has acquired an aircraft and chemicals to boost its preparedness amid the invasion of desert locusts. The migratory pests were first sighted in the country on February 19, after crossing from Kenya through Amudat district…

Former Kenyan President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi was a patriot, loved the East African Community and was a conciliatory figure, President Museveni has said. The three qualities are what President Museveni pointed out about Moi, at a…

President Yoweri Museveni has described former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi as a true Pan-Africanist, who worked closely with the masses. "He was also a deeply religious person. My condolences and that of Ugandans to His Excellency…

Kenya’s former President Daniel Arap Moi is dead. The former teacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving President and transformed the country’s political landscape with his iron-fist rule for more than two decades died at the Nairobi…

The aphorism that any decision made by a politician, whether social, religious or economic will always be a political decision, directly applies to what is happening in the body politic of the East African region. The principle of free…

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto has urged Ugandans not to risk losing President Museveni, saying that Museveni and his NRM deserve retention because they despise the politics of tribalism and regionalism which is a threat to Pan…