At least 30 Burundian refugees have been killed in clashes with Congolese security forces over plans to send some of them home, a Reuters witness and local activists said on Saturday.

'Northern Corridor' countries want online security as millions are invested in oil and transport projects.

Lack of medical facilities and extreme poverty have killed tens of thousands of newborn babies across East Africa, Press TV reports.

The military in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has accused Rwandan forces of ‘kidnapping’ one of its officers in the Congolese city of Goma.

Southern African nations say concerns are growing that another war between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is coming.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon, together with Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, will visit the Great Lakes Region of Africa this week, with the purpose of promoting the implementation of a crucial peace accord, a spokesperson told reporters here Monday.

Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015.

Suspected militia from Ethiopia on Thursday night killed three local people in the latest attack since the government ordered security crackdown in the restive town of Mandera.

A spokesman for the Ugandan government says peace talks between the Congolese government and M23 rebels will begin in the Ugandan capital Friday.

Comoros President Ikililou Dhoinine has called on the international community to assist the Democratic Republic of Congo to end the conflict ravaging east of the central African nation.

A UN panel says the Rwandan defense minister is commanding a rebellion in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda and Uganda are arming M23 rebels.

Nairobi — Above-average seasonal rains in parts of the East and Horn of Africa have affected tens of thousands of people, displacing families and restricting access to many in need, say humanitarian officials. The rains, coming ahead of a possible El Niño event, have prompted fears of further flooding.

The United States has called on Rwanda to publicly denounce M23 rebels who have set up a parallel government in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(Reuters) - Kenyan warships shelled the southern Somali port of Kismayu overnight after al Qaeda-linked rebels said they had abandoned the city, residents said on Sunday.

At least two Kenyan police officers have been killed in an attack near the country’s border with Somalia, hours after a child lost his life in a grenade attack at a church in Nairobi.

The Kenyan army says its troops have taken control of the southern Somali port city of Kismayo, a major stronghold of al-Shabab fighters.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Shabab rebels pulled out of a key port city in southern Somalia, the group said Saturday, a day after Kenyan troops invaded and marched toward the city center and seaside port that long served as the militants' key source of funding, officials said.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Kenyan troops invaded al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia on Friday, coming ashore in a predawn beach landing at Kismayo that appeared likely to deprive the Islamist insurgents of their last big money-making enterprise.

Kenyan troops invaded al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia, coming ashore in a predawn assault Friday. Other African Union forces were traveling overland to link up with the Kenyan forces in the port city of Kismayo.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan military says its jets have bombed an airport in Somalia — the last major city in the country held by extremist insurgents who are fighting African Union troops.