Dar es Salaam. Tanzanian business magnate Mohammed “Mo” Dewji has surged to a net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes’ 2025 Africa’s Billionaires List, making him the richest person in East ...

Amid the capitulation of legislatures and elections rendered meaningless, grassroots organising can save democracy.

March 29 (Reuters) - A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization ...

In East Africa, Persian customs never came to dominate ... how far-reaching the foreign influence has been on the DNA of people of Swahili descent. A key step in all this research, said Dr ...

Torrential rains and flash floods have ripped through parts of East Africa for several weeks, killing more than 350 people and displacing over 1 million across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia ...

Historic drought, widespread food insecurity and conflict have led to dire conditions and a crisis of extreme hunger in East Africa. "People have lost millions of livestock, they've lost all their ...