East African countries are witnessing significant growth in Chinese investments, primarily focused on infrastructure projects ...

The world's poorest country in East Africa struggles with extreme poverty, political instability, and economic challenges, ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Children living in poverty often suffer from anemia, a condition linked to serious health risks. A research team led by ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

The East Africa Art and Cultural Festival is instrumental in fostering unity and people to people ties among communities of ...

Ethiopia, meanwhile, is considered to be the oldest independent country in Africa, and one of the most ancient on the planet. Nowadays, it is the second-largest state in terms of population.

“This country is blessed,” he says. “Anything you try can work.” Where it is not racked by war, military coups or jihadism, much of Africa is ... so new that Google Maps had yet to give ...

Several Arab countries condemned on Wednesday Israeli airstrikes in Syria as a “blatant violation” of international law and the country’s sovereignty. In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign ...

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army and a rebel group that Rwanda denies backing. By Elian Peltier and ...