ARTICLES RELATING TO
EAST AFRICA
Chad's air force has targeted Sudanese rebels along the Darfur border after, a breakaway rebel leader reputedly backed by N'Djamena was killed, the insurgents have charged.
Uganda has threatened to penalise media for coverage of a purported plot to stifle allegations that President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power.
A man who authorities say played a key role in funnelling young men from Minnesota to a terrorist group in Somalia has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
South Sudanese soldiers have looted UN stores and charities in troubled Jonglei state where the government has been battling rebels for a year.
Eritrea's hardline regime has jailed at least 10 000 political prisoners, many in "unimaginably atrocious conditions", rights group Amnesty International says.
South Sudanese rebels have seized a military base and town after clashing with the army in the east, in an escalation of violence.
A senior official from Sudan's Darfur region has said only five people died in the collapse of an unlicensed gold mine last week.
A suspected bomb attack on a new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha has killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others.
Up to 260 000 died in 2011 Somali famine a new report says; half were 5 and under.
Kenya's Red Cross says two children have been buried in a landslide overnight have died, as the country's death toll from heavy flooding rose to 41.
Experts have warned of a looming food shortage due to prolonged political campaigns and heavy rains that have disrupted transport and farming.
Nakumatt Supermarkets will spend KES 1.4 billion (US$17.8 million) to fund the opening of outlets in Uganda and Kenya.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir can expect a "warm welcome" when he arrives in South Sudan for talks with his counterpart Salva Kiir.
Police in southern Tanzania have used teargas to disperse about 200 Christian rioters attempting to torch a mosque over an animal slaughtering conflict.
Gunmen have shot dead two Kenyan policemen in the latest attack in the restive border region with war-torn Somalia, a top policeman says.
