In East Africa a slave trade was well established ... army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves, working in rich households.

The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have been affected this year with 1 ...

Italy: Italian colonial forces commanded by the Duke of Aosta. Outcome: Defeat of the Italian forces in East Africa. In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, which it had conquered in 1936 ...

Tanzania, Malawi, Cameroon, Gabon, and Cote d'Ivoire will be the highlights of this year’s presidential elections as more ...

Kenya had two internet shutdowns, lasting 511 hours and impacting 22.7 million people, resulting in cumulative losses of ...

Out of the 228,000 people killed, more than 300 were from the East African countries of Somalia, Tanzania and Kenya, according to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

East Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years and there are now over 1.4 million people displaced by drought in Somalia alone. Learn more about drought, what causes it, and how we can support ...

Abyei, an oil-rich region that straddling South Sudan and Sudan, was part of the unfinished business when South Sudan seceded ...