KAMPALA— A RwandAir passenger plane with 60 people on board skidded off the runway while landing at the Entebbe International Airport in Uganda early Wednesday, officials confirmed.The passengers and crew disembarked safely, they added.The RwandaAir fl…

BENI (DR Congo)— Elite soldiers from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) have killed five militants belonging to the IS-CAP terror group in the eastern DR Congo.The unit, which has been fighting alongside armies from Tanzania, South Africa, and Nepal, is pa…

UNITED NATIONS – Drought and Ukraine conflict fallout, could increase hunger in the Horn of Africa from 14 million people to 20 million, by year’s end, a UN spokesman said.Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, s…

The World Food Program warns an estimated 20 million people in drought-affected parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia could face catastrophic levels of hunger if the region is hit with a fourth consecutive year of drought.The rains have failed to come t…

Kigali – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$5.5 million from the United States (through USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance) to provide cash transfers to refugees living in all five camps in Rwanda. T…

ALGIERS— The Algerian Health Ministry said that no new COVID-19 cases were reported over the past 24 hours for the first time since the outbreak of the disease two years ago.The overall number of cases stabilized at 265,739, and the death toll remained…