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Byline: Mike Pflanz, Rocco Nuri It is clear that Lina Obere wants to play. She bothers her brother, pulling his shirt and rolling on the ground near him. She goes [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz There appears to be no logic governing who falls victim to the men with the machetes and the guns in Burundi today. They might be opponents or [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Charity Kuria runs her own business arranging fresh milk deliveries daily to Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and has a daughter who this September will become the first in [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The highest-profile case at the International Criminal Court - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial - looked closer to collapse than ever Wednesday as prosecutors [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Leaders of the world's youngest country, already struggling with war and poverty, sparked international concern by issuing a ban on foreign workers in several key sectors including [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz US airstrikes in Somalia that killed the head of Al Qaeda's East Africa affiliate, Al Shabab, could trigger a collapse of the terror group, analysts say. But [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Nearly seven million people in South Sudan and Somalia are in urgent need of food handouts and several areas of both countries could slip into famine without [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz When they speed up to a lumbering ship, the main thing Somalian pirates do not want to see are armed guards. With fewer ships now being boarded [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Three years ago, Isse Yuluh's pirate gang hijacked a yacht being sailed around the world by a Danish family with three teens. The Danes were eventually freed [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenyans are five times more likely to be shot dead by police than by armed robbers, according to a new survey that highlights problems in what is [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz In Kenya's usually traffic-clogged capital yesterday, thousands of extra armed police in heavy riot gear patrolled near-empty streets or stood guard before shuttered shops. They were brought [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A Sudanese mother sentenced to death for 'abandoning' Islam for Christianity walked free from prison Monday after a court overturned her conviction, a rarity in a country [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz President Barack Obama will propose the first US ambassador to Somalia in 23 years in what is described as a 'clear shift' in policy towards the still-struggling [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz International pressure is growing on Sudan's government to intervene in the case of a woman who was sentenced to death when she was eight months pregnant for [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Late on April 6, 1994, two surface-to-air missiles hit the Rwandan presidential jet on its final approach to the airport in Kigali, bringing it crashing to the [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The clump of professional cyclists swept past a grove of banana trees and a field of potatoes, continuing up the steep hill toward a trio of mist-topped [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz When gunfire first rang out at Nairobi's most upscale mall on a Saturday morning six months ago, many people assumed it was an especially violent robbery. As [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Uganda's president recently approved a controversial law further criminalizing homosexuality and imposing strict sentences for aspects of homosexuality and on those who fail to report gay people [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz It's a little before midnight, and a matte-green Land Rover pickup with its headlights off and its dashboard darkened creeps along a dirt track beside a 10-foot-high [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz For two years, Kelly Mukwano has been an ideal house tenant, someone who pays his rent on time and keeps his two-room apartment tidy and well-maintained. All [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A month of fighting in the world's newest nation has killed more than 1,000 people and forced 125,000 to flee. There are signs that a civil war [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Marines have flown to Africa to be ready to deploy to South Sudan and protect US citizens in the event that the world's newest nation accelerates its [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Outside Nelson Mandela's home in an upscale suburb of Johannesburg, the dancing and the singing went on Monday as crowds continued to gather to celebrate the life [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The defeat of one of the most notorious rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo by a beefed-up United Nations force and a rejuvenated national Army [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The main rebel fighting force in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday declared an end to its armed struggle, after days of military defeats [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz, Fredrick Nzwili Among African nations, Kenya is especially proud of a robust and relatively free and open media -- which is why a new proposal allowing select [...]