"Please tell the boss that I am stuck in traffic,” the woman sitting next to me entreats the person on the line’s receiving end. (more…)

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has urged troops from two rival provinces to halt their fire after heavy clashes in a disputed northern border region left several dead. (more…)

Fifty dead bodies were recovered after a boat sank on a river in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, according to an official report delivered to the AFP on Friday. (more…)

NAIROBI — Heavy rains have left hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced across various parts of East Africa. Kenya, Somalia and Rwanda are the worst hit. The flooding comes as the region tries to recover from a severe drought in 2017 that threatened millions of people. (more…)

More than 50 people have died in Somaliland, livestock has been wiped out and hundreds of farms destroyed by heavy rains and floods caused by a tropical cyclone that hit the Horn of Africa, officials and aid agencies in the breakaway Somali region said. (more…)

The humanitarian branches of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the United Nations today launched an appeal for $80 million to provide immediate help for people affected by recent flooding in the country’s centre and south – resulting from the heaviest rainfall experienced in Somalia in more than three...

Detectives have cautioned Kenyans of an emerging cult operating within Nairobi that targets youths especially students in the university. (more…)

Minnesota state investigators are investigating day care fraud at the expense of state taxpayers committed by almost entirely East African immigrants, including ones from Somalia. (more…)

American special forces in Somalia have been accused of involvement in a bungled terror raid that left five civilians dead. (more…)