Africa
Uganda police arrest more people protesting corruption
By Elias Biryabarema and Aaron Ross Reuters Ugandan police detained several people in the capital Kampala on Thursday during a second day ...Kenya police fire tear gas to stop scuffles between pro and anti-government groups
By Edwin Waita Reuters Kenya’s police fired tear gas to prevent scuffles between groups of protesters and government supporters in the capital ...Heavy security patrols in Uganda’s capital ahead of planned protest
Authorities in Uganda deployed military and police on Tuesday around parliament and the centre of Kampala, the capital, a Reuters witness said, ...Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits media, financial, telecoms
BY CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP A widespread Microsoft outage was disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world ...More than 10 million people displaced by Sudan war, IOM says
More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the ...Car bomb kills five, injures 20 outside restaurant in Somalia’s capital
A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing five and injuring 20 as patrons were ...Congo says UN exit unlikely while Rwandan troops present
By Ange Adihe Kasongo Reuters U.N. peacekeepers are unlikely to proceed with an agreed withdrawal from Congo’s conflict-torn North Kivu for as ...UN-brokered Sudan ceasefire talks begin with one party no-show
By Emma Farge , Michelle Nichols and Nafisa Eltahir Reuters Sudan’s warring parties are in Switzerland for U.N.-led talks aimed at brokering ...Lower growth forecast for Zimbabwe as drought ravages crop yields – finmin
By Nyasha Chingono Reuters Zimbabwe has revised its economic growth forecast downwards as southern Africa’s worst drought in decades ravages crop yields, ...Sudanese political factions meet in Cairo with little prospect of peace
By Nafisa Eltahir Reuters Rival Sudanese political factions formally attended reconciliation talks in Cairo on Saturday, the first since a conflict in ...














