In an interview with Bon Appétit, the NYC mayoral candidate talks about eating with his hands in public, jokes about the ...

Karibu sana to the East Africa we’ve quietly been becoming all along. If you live in a city where you’ve never met a woman who told you, “I have my Congolese tailor,” then you are not in ...

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At Jinja, neighboring Uganda’s second largest city located at the headwaters of the Nile some 50 miles east of the Kampala capital, two companies of the Uganda Rifles followed the example set by ...

East African finance chiefs increased planned spending to a record to sustain economic growth and mitigate the effects of ...

When it’s positive, the westerlies weaken, allowing that warm water—and rainfall—to shift toward East Africa. Cyclone Mekunu hits the east coast of Africa on May 25, 2018.