Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa in the Ugandan capital on Wednesday.
Clashes between military forces and a tribal militia in a remote western district of Uganda have left at least 55 people dead.
An explosion has killed at least two people and wounded 32 UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of North Kivu.
10 people were killed in an attack by Shabaab terrorists on a beachfront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a spokesman for the city authorities said on Friday.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants in Somalia have killed at least 43 soldiers in an attack on a base used by Ethiopian troops north of the capital, Mogadishu.
Somali government forces have killed the head of the intelligence unit in al-Shabaab militant group during a cleanup operation in the troubled country.
Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants have attacked an army base near the Somali capital, claiming to have killed at least 73 soldiers.
The Kenyan army says it has killed at least 21 members of the Somalia-based al-Shabab Takfiri militant group during a firefight in the neighboring country.
The World Health Organisation has warned about the extremely alaming rate of Zika virous around the world and has called for an emergency meeting.
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Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to Africa via Uganda, officials said.