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Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:45 PM

Four experts discuss the U.N.’s new peacekeeping brigade in Congo, which has a mandate to use force against rebel groups in the east, and the future of U.N. missions

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:52 PM

Rebels who've taken part in multiple rebellions, are on international sanctions lists or have committed war crimes will not be granted amnesty

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:31 PM

The vast new underground water stores under Kenya’s arid north are great news – unless they lead to pastoralists falling victim to corrupt land grabs

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:57 PM

In the past seven years, eastern and southern Africa have been the best performing regions globally in fighting preventable child deaths, reducing under-five mortality at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent between 2005 and 2012, Unicef says

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:17 AM

Jermaine John Grant, a British citizen, handles his handcuffs after his trial at the Milimani High Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2013. A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December. Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:14 AM

REFILE - ADDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Jermaine John Grant, a British citizen, is escorted by prison wardens after his trial at the Milimani High Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2013. A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December. Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: CRIME LAW)

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:13 AM

REFILE - ADDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Jermaine John Grant (C), a British citizen, is escorted by prison wardens after his trial at the Milimani High Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2013. A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December. Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:08 AM

Jermaine Grant (C), a British citizen, is escorted by prison wardens after his trial at the Milimani High Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2013. A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December. Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYACRIME LAW - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:07 AM

Jermaine Grant, a British citizen, is escorted by prison wardens after his trial at the Milimani High Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2013. A Kenyan court on Friday acquitted British citizen Grant of robbery with violence over an incident in 2008, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but he faces another trial over a planned attack in Kenya in December. Kenyan police suspect Grant, an east Londoner, has ties to the al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: CRIME LAW)