Hamza Mohamed

An­a­lysts stress bloc’s im­por­tance in de­fus­ing de­te­ri­o­rat­ing sit­u­a­tion but warn it is in tight spot and must act quick­ly.

Hu­man­i­tar­i­an agen­cies say they strug­gle to reach peo­ple in need, warn of ‘dras­tic’ de­te­ri­o­ra­tion un­less things change.

Colonel As­si­mi Goi­ta, who has led two mil­i­tary coups in nine months, named coun­try’s in­ter­im pres­i­dent.

Long­time pres­i­dent ex­pect­ed to see off chal­lenge from six oth­er can­di­dates and win Sun­day’s vote.

Saynab Ab­dikarin has ven­tured into an in­dus­try that was ex­clu­sive­ly male-dom­i­nat­ed in con­ser­v­a­tive So­ma­lia.

Feb­ru­ary 8 polls de­layed as pres­i­dent and pow­er­ful re­gion­al lead­ers squab­ble over the vot­ing process.

Pan-African body to hold its an­nu­al heads of states sum­mit vir­tu­al­ly due to coro­n­avirus pre­cau­tions.

Op­po­si­tion lead­ers re­ject elec­tion re­sults as long­time Pres­i­dent Mu­sev­eni says gov­ern­ment will not tol­er­ate ‘ri­ots’.

Ugan­da’s long­time ruler Yow­eri Mu­sev­eni fac­ing chal­lenge from singer-turned-politi­cian Bobi Wine as he seeks sixth term.

More than 18 mil­lion peo­ple reg­is­tered to take part in high-stakes vote af­ter cam­paign­ing marred by dead­ly vi­o­lence.