Somalia Joins the East African Community The East African Community (EAC) Summit of Heads of State has formally admitted the Federal Republic of Somalia as its 8th Member. Somalia joins Kenya, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania in the bloc. “The Somali people are honoured to be part […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has arrived in Tanzania to join his counterparts at the 23rd Ordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State. The summit is slated for today Friday 24th November 2023 in Arusha-Tanzania. At Kilimanjaro International Airport, President Museveni was welcomed by Hussein Mohamed Bashe, the Minister of Agriculture of […]
Following Uganda’s decision to bypass Kenyan oil middlemen and import fuel directly into the country, leading Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has come out with a statement that has several serious allegations, that is run in full below. ******* STATEMENT BY THE RT. HON. RAILA ODINGA ON THE KENYA OIL DEAL, NOVEMBER 16, 2023: Dear Kenyans […]
Some 997,743 refugees have arrived in South Sudan in spontaneous returns from October 2018 to September 2023 after the signing of the revitalized peace agreement on the resolution of conflict, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. According to the UNHCR, 51 percent of the refugees interviewed said they returned to […]