July 26

• East Africa: Row Brews Over Kenya's Europe Deal

  A row is brewing between Kenya's new government and her regional counterparts over its readiness to sign the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs). Read more »

July 19

• East Africa: Tracking Illegal Ivory - From Congo to Uganda to Kenya?

  When Kenyan customs officers on July 8 confiscated about 3,500kgs of elephant ivory alleged to have been smuggled into the country from Uganda, the ministry of Wildlife and related... Read more »

July 05

• East Africa: An East African Spring? [analysis]

  Blood runs down the street. Dark and menacing. Young men gather in a tight circle. Chanting. At the centre of the crowd are a large sow and her piglets. The animals do not seem to... Read more »

May 03

• Kenya: Mombasa: The Hot and Breezy Gateway to East Africa

  The city of Mombasa on the southeast coast of Kenya charms its way into your system with its tranquillity, Arabic influences, friendly people and gorgeous beaches combined with a... Read more »

April 25

• Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta Unveils Cabinet Nominees

  President Kenyatta along with his deputy William Ruto today unveiled the full list of their nominees to the Cabinet. Read more »

April 20

• Kenya: Lessons for Baganda From Kenya [opinion]

  Political coalitions about power and wealth are best negotiated before, not after, the signing Read more »

April 09

• Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn in As Kenya's President

  Uhuru Kenyatta has officially been sworn in as Kenya's fourth president together with his running mate William Ruto as the Deputy president. The ceremony attended by various... Read more »

March 15

• Kenya: Kenya 2013 - the ICC Election [opinion]

  The conventional wisdom in the Kenyan media is that the 2013 election has been an ethnic census, not an issue-based contest. This is a half-truth which fails to recognise the... Read more »

• Kenya: The Aristocracisation of Kenya Politics [opinion]

  How the electoral process in Kenya produces powerful political families that use identity to wield power Many factors may have influenced the 2013 election in Kenya. But three of... Read more »

• Kenya: Kenya's High-Tech Fiasco [opinion]

  Ever wondered what happened to your ballot after you dropped it into a ballot box at an election? To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, it's not the people who vote that count; it's the... Read more »

March 09

• Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta Wins Kenya Presidential Race

  Kenya's deputy Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, has won the presidential election by a very tight margin. Mr Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes out of 12,338,667 total votes cast in... Read more »

• Kenya: Kenya Decides (2013)

  Kenya went to the polls on March 4. It was the first election under the new and quite liberal constitution that was adopted in August 2010. Read more »

March 04

• Kenya: Kenya Votes Today

  Kenyans will today choose a president, members of parliament and senators, county governors and members of the newly formed county assembly. Read more »

February 26

• Africa: Africa News Round Up

  In the Democratic Republic of Congo, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon will urge the Security Council to approve a force to fight rebels according to a draft report seen on Monday, Reuters... Read more »

February 22

• Kenya: Kenya's Presidential Debate [opinion]

  It was highly billed, widely broadcast across all major mainstream radio and TV networks and, while it lasted, effectively dominated the social media traffic in Kenya. It also... Read more »

• Kenya: Museveni, Kagame At Crossroads [opinion]

  Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and Raila Odinga, the son of his Vice President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, are contesting in the March 4 Kenyan... Read more »

• Africa: Africa News Round Up

  In Kenya the prime minister, a frontrunner in the 4 March presidential poll, accused on Thursday the head of the civil service of attempting to manipulate the vote to his rivals'... Read more »

February 20

• Africa: Africa News Round Up

  In Tunisia, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has announced his resignation at a news conference in Tunis, Aljazeera reports. Read more »

February 15

• Africa: Africa News Round Up

  In Somalia a high-ranking official told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that her government does not want the African Union military mission in Somalia (Amisom) to... Read more »

February 14

• Africa: Africa News Round

  In Kenya, the Daily Nation reports that bail terms for Jubilee presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto are complicating the Kenya case, the... Read more »

February 08

• Africa: News Round Up

  In Kenya, the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda has said people are keen on outing witnesses in the Kenya election violence case, the Daily... Read more »

February 07

• Africa: Africa News Round Up

  In Tunisia, the Prime Minister announced he would form a non-partisan government of technocrats to run the country until elections can be held, the BBC reports. Read more »

February 04

• Africa: News Round Up

  We start off this week's news round up in Mali, the number-three leader of the armed group that controlled Timbuktu in northern Mali until last week, Mohamed Moussa Ag Mouhamed,... Read more »

February 01

• Africa: Africa News Round

  In Egypt, opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi are expected to hold new protests, after the deadliest week of violence since he came to power the BBC reports. Read more »

January 31

• Africa: Africa News Round Up January

  In Mali, the United Nations is speeding up planning for a peacekeeping force in Mali as French and Malian troops steamroller into territory seized by Islamists, Daily Nation... Read more »