Peter Greste

“How do you ac­cu­rate­ly and fair­ly re­port on Egypt’s on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal strug­gle with­out talk­ing to every­one in­volved?”

Al Jazeera’s Pe­ter Greste writes sec­ond let­ter from Egypt’s Tora Prison, where he is be­ing held with­out charge.

As Kenya cel­e­brates 50 years of in­de­pen­dence, has the coun­try has live up to the promis­es of its found­ing fa­ther?

In­ter­pret­ing con­flict as mere­ly eth­nic is not only su­per­fi­cial but also dan­ger­ous if it dri­ves pol­i­cy and peace deals.

In a sym­bol­ic ref­er­en­dum, 99.9 per­cent of vot­ers in the dis­put­ed re­gion of Abyei favour join­ing South Su­dan over Su­dan.

Footage seen a month af­ter the dead­ly mall siege sug­gests al-Shabab achieved a lot more than what it had aimed for.

Kenya and So­ma­lia face chal­lenge of fig­ur­ing out how to de­feat an or­gan­i­sa­tion in “an in­tel­li­gence war”.

There is a grow­ing view from Nairo­bi that al-Shabab’s West­gate Mall at­tack was an act of des­per­a­tion

Coun­try re­vamped its po­lit­i­cal sys­tems af­ter the 1994 geno­cide. While not per­fect, the changes are worth watch­ing.

Vi­o­lence stem­ming from ri­val­ry be­tween Murle and Lou Nuer tribes has sent at least 100,000 peo­ple flee­ing their homes.