Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed the bomb attacks that left 76 people dead in Kampala last month. Paraded before journalists in Kampala yesterday by military intelligence...

Chad has accused the International Criminal Court of only targeting African leaders, as it justifies its decision not to arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. Chad’s ambassador to the US told the BBC that justice suffers if it is...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it is boosting the delivery of aid to Niger, where up to eight million people are experiencing severe food shortages as a result of a prolonged drought that has caused crop failure and livestock...

Two gunmen on Tuesday night shot dead a top law professor and two other people during a raid at his home on Dar es Salaam’s outskirts in the latest incident in a wave of mounting crime in the city’s suburbs. The death of Prof Jwani Timothy...

The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month. Alan Doss told the UN Security Council that the campaign in the east of the country had “largely...

Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as he describes the 15 years he spent living and fighting in the forests of eastern...

Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala. A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died after being hit on the head with an iron bar during a brawl. An army spokesman said he...