Discover why Arusha, known as the Geneva of Africa, was chosen as the headquarters for the East African Community (EAC), a ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

Interim results from communal Councils and legislative elections showed that the ruling party CNDD- FDD took 99 percent of ...

During the 12th high-level Regional Oversight Mechanism summit held at State House Entebbe, Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye handed over the instruments of power to President Museveni to ...

Malawi’s drowning cases are just a drop in the ocean compared to its neighbouring countries in the Great Lakes region ... For instance, “about hundred people, the majority of which are ...

East African nation Burundi is the lone duck in the latest US emigration travel ban after the Trump administration listed it among just seven countries facing partial travel restrictions to the United ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Uganda, with crucial backing from the European Union (EU), ...

More than 1,65,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months to seek safety ...

GENEVA - Over 165,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months, seeking safety both within the country and across borders and deepening an already dire ...

JUBA - More than 165,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months to seek ...

Rounds of smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires, as well as dust blowing off Sub-Saharan Africa, will continue to envelop ...