(SomaliNet) A local Ugandan official said on Wednesday that a community in eastern Uganda that has practiced female genital mutilation "since time immemorial" has banned the ritual.
Chairperson of Kapchorwa district Nelson Chelimo said: "The community decided that it was not useful, that women w
(SomaliNet) A United Nations official said on Saturday that an increase in violence in northern Darfur last month has displaced around 50,000 people, many of whom could be short of food and water.
Around 24,000 people fled their homes after clashes between Sudanese government and rebel forces nea
(SomaliNet) In the third such incident over the past year in central Sudan, Kidnappers have snatched nine Chinese oil workers in the oil-producing region, the Sudanese government and diplomats said on Sunday.
The Sudanese government blamed a Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (
(SomaliNet) France Telecom said it acquired a majority stake in a Ugandan mobile phone operator and will launch services under its Orange brand in the coming months.
However, a France Telecom spokesman declined to say what the company paid for its 53 percent stake in the group, formerly called Hi
(SomaliNet) A Kenyan High Court judge may be charged with stabbing a motorist in the stomach during a road rage incident in Nairobi, local media reported on Monday.
Justice G.B.M. Kariuki was driving his official Mercedes Benz when it was involved in an accident late on Saturday with a saloon car
(SomaliNet) Sudanese security forces were struggling through rain and harsh terrain to try to rescue nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped in central Sudan two days ago, the government said on Monday.
Ali al-Sadig, foreign Ministry spokesman said there were no indications the captors had harmed the
(SomaliNet) Burundian government on Tuesday accused the last rebel group opposing the government of blocking the implementation of a peace deal reached two years ago.
Charles Nqakula, South African Defence Minister, who is chairing talks between the two sides, held discussions with President Pier
(SomaliNet) In the latest incident that brings to 26, the total number of albinos murdered in Tanzania this year, a ten-year-old albino girl has been murdered in the western region of Shinyanga.
Media reports say the albinos are killed by gangs that then mutilate the corpses and sell the body pa
(SomaliNet) The Sudanese government on Sunday expressed optimism that nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped more than a week ago seemingly by Darfur rebels would soon be released, safe and well.
"We are working to achieve the release. This will happen definitely, yes, I'm sure," foreign ministry spo
(SomaliNet) China, the biggest foreign investor in Sudan, said on Sunday it was trying to work with Western powers to lessen the fallout from war crimes charges filed against Sudan's president.
The special Chinese envoy on Darfur, Liu Guijin, said he held talks in the United States, Britain and F
