An Ethiopian Airlines passenger flight from Addis Ababa has crashed on its way to Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.
The challenges facing Kenya’s aviation sector in recent weeks continue to compound.
Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa is about to get cleaner and greener. But first, it needs your money.
Fierce wildfires raging at the Mount Kenya national park are threatening Kenya’s water catchments, and imperiling tens of thousands of hectares of indigenous trees and exotic vegetation.
Internet disruption continues to spread across Algeria as public demonstrations calling on president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to vacate office intensify.
It’s been exactly a year since the Dubai-based port operator DP World accused Djibouti of illegally seizing control of the Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT) it operated in the northeast African country. The move triggered denunciation from Emirati officials, kick-started a succession of legal battles that have spanned the globe, and brought into focus China’s deepening role in the Horn of Africa.
At the end of last year, everything was set for a local consultancy firm to work on a research project with the government of Lagos, Africa’s largest city.
The mobile operating system KaiOS is gradually securing its place among the slew of mobile devices targeting African markets.
Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir has declared a yearlong state of emergency months after anti-government protests began calling for an end to his three-decade rule.
Seeking to build a central identification platform, Kenya is storing the fingerprints, eyes, faces, voices, DNA, and location of its nearly 50-million population, and linking the data to everything from identity cards to access to education, health, and social services.
Tanzania has charged a Chinese businesswoman for leading the country’s most notorious ivory poaching ring. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants worth millions of dollars over several years to Asia. Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring.
Uganda’s social media tax has proved to be detrimental to both its internet and mobile money sectors.
Amazon is tapping into e-commerce customers in Kenya who want to pay for goods in cash.
After decades of a centralized economic model and antiquated socialist red tape, Ethiopia is opening up to the world.
For decades, the black leopard proved elusive in Africa.
The age of internet shutdowns has dawned, and governments all across the world are disrupting connectivity to control what people say or do online.
Kenya’s second and third largest mobile phone operators are merging to create a stronger challenger to the market leader, Safaricom.
A legal tussle over who owns teff, Ethiopia’s staple grain, has been quietly settled.
It was a tactless case of translation that caught the attention of China-Africa observers worldwide.
Hugging the shores of the Indian Ocean, Kenya’s Mombasa port is one of the biggest and busiest harbors in East Africa.
In the end, the explosive devices proved to be dummies.
In its pursuit to become Africa’s gateway into the world, Ethiopia this week achieved a new milestone.
The current state of East Africa’s creative industry is usually discussed in the context of one word: potential.
Leila Ali Elmi’s childhood was an exercise in the future awaiting her in politics.
