The ongoing insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by M23 rebels threatens to ignite renewed conflict in the ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

Analysis - Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that ...

Electricity access in the region remains below 50 percent on average, though some countries, like Kenya, have surpassed 75 ...

Dar es Salaam. The governments of Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement to commence the construction of a ...

ISLANDS on the seashore as well as Lake Victoria will be connected to the national power grid by installing small power ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

British primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is still a popular figure among Tanzanian conservationists, tourists and researchers.

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

Key areas of research focus on East Africa include Tanzania’s foreign policy approach and constitutional politics and Kenya’s fiscal stability and external financing partnerships. East African states ...

There are some alarming parallels between the harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Kenya's Lake Victoria and those in Lake Erie, a new study has found. By studying the Winam Gulf, a section of Lake ...