Smart Africa is working with 10 African countries to align e-commerce and digital payment policies. A workshop was held in Brazzaville to kickstart the harmonization process. The $1.7 million ...

Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration’s historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved.

Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was ...

Governance pundits suggest that the Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs, Jacob Oboth, may have been kept in the dark about the deployment of Uganda People’s Defence Forces in South Sudan. They ...

Tensions are escalating in South Sudan as fears of renewed conflict grow. Uganda has deployed special forces to the capital, Juba, to protect President Salva Kiir’s government. Ugandan military chief ...

Uganda has deployed troops in South Sudan as cracks within the transitional government widen threatening to throw the youngest country into another civil war. The deployment of troops in South ...

Ugandan special forces have been deployed to South Sudan's capital, the Ugandan army chief said Tuesday, after rising tensions that have threatened a fragile peace agreement. Ugandan army ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy ...

The forces were deployed in Juba two days ago, he added. Uganda sent troops to South Sudan in 2013 at the onset of a five-year civil war to support now President Salva Kiir, before officially ...

Uganda sent troops to South Sudan in 2013 at the onset of a five-year civil war to support now President Salva Kiir, before officially withdrawing at the end of 2015. A fragile power-sharing ...

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said that Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President ...

Gen Kainerugaba did not give reasons for the deployment to the neighbouring state but said that any move against Kiir "is a declaration of war against Uganda". South Sudan's government has not yet ...