Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing. A Kenyan activist has told the BBC that he is “struggling to be alive” after allegedly being sexually tortured in detention in Tanzania last month. Boniface Mwangi said he had decided to speak despite the “shame and guilt of being sodomised with all manner […]

Two people who the Ugandan army describe as “armed terrorists” have been killed in the capital, Kampala, as the country marks Martyrs Day – a Christian celebration to commemorate the faithful who died in the 19th Century. A counter-terrorism unit “intercepted and neutralized” the two, one of whom was a female suicide bomber, in the […]

Five members of a United Nations convoy carrying aid to the war-torn Sudanese city of el-Fasher have been killed in an attack, UN agencies have said. Several people were also injured and multiple trucks burnt in Monday night’s assault, which took place near el-Koma in the state of North Darfur, they added. The two sides […]

Nobody in South Africa seems to know where Tiger is. The 42-year-old from neighbouring Lesotho, whose real name is James Neo Tshoaeli, has evaded a police manhunt for the past four months. Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa, where 78 corpses were […]

Kenyans have expressed outrage over the detention of a software developer who created a tool to help people oppose the government’s annual finance bill because of fears that it will raise the cost of living. Rose Njeri was detained on Friday after police raided her home in the capital, Nairobi, and seized electronic devises, activists […]