Veteran Kenyan politician Martha Karua is spearheading a campaign against the suppression of opposition parties in East Africa. Ahead of Tundu Lissu’s court appearance on 24 April, the...

The arrest and detention of three opposition leaders in Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan points to concerted attempts by government to both crush their opponents and undermine the...

Amid regional turbulence, President William Ruto showed Kenya’s pulling power with a star-studded launch on 27 August for his former foe, Raila Odinga’s campaign to lead the African...

Finance ministers in East Africa’s leading economies – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – kept to the tradition of releasing their budget plans for 2024/25 on 13 June.

Regarded as sure-footed on politics and diplomacy, President William Samoei Ruto's management of security policy in a troubled region has been prompting questions about where he wants to...

South Sudan has taken over the leadership of the expanding but cash-strapped East African Community, despite not paying its membership dues or much interest to the organisation in...

Aside from migration control, and its €150 billion (US$163bn) Global Gateway programme – the European Union's underfinanced answer to China's Belt and Road infrastructure scheme – the latest...

Economies in East Africa are navigating their most difficult transitions in a generation. Shaken by the financial after-effects of the pandemic combined with fuel and food price shocks...