Food and water have been scarce along the Omo River since work began on the Gilgel Gibe III project. The U.N. plans an assessment.
Malawi, Nigeria and Kenya are calling for the evacuation of their nationals amid continuing attacks in the city of Durban.
Many Africans were using cell phones to make payments long before it was cool in Europe and North America.
A new study found cell phones are now as common in South Africa and Nigeria as they are in the United States, but landline telephones are rare.
10 entrepreneurs -- addressing obstacles in education, infrastructure, health and other areas -- are finalists for an innovation prize.
"We thought it was another al-Shabab attack."
Kenya's deputy president says the country would change "the way America changed after 9/11," following an attack that killed 148 people.
The addition of rickshaws is one of many ways Uber is trying to compete in emerging markets around the world.
Civilians are caught in the middle as Kenya's government tries to cut off a Somali terrorist group's finances.
Kenya needs more help from its U.S. and European allies with intelligence and security measures to help prevent further massacres by Somali militants, Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed told Reuters on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Kenyan students marched Tuesday to honor those killed last week in the attack at Garissa University College in northeast Kenya.
The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week.
The ongoing decline in tourism has hurt Kenya in recent years.
The latest airstrikes follow last week's attack on Garissa University by al-Shabab militants that killed nearly 150 students.
After al Shabaab gunmen massacred nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university on Thursday, churches in Kenya are turning to armed guards to protect their congregations.
The African nation has "an unwavering friend" in the United States, the president says after terrorists strike in Garissa.
During the attack, Cynthia Charotich hid inside a cupboard and covered herself with clothes.
The Somalia-based group says in a statement that Kenyan citizens would "bear the full brunt" of their government's actions.
The names of the five allegedly involved in the deadly attack that left more than 148 dead were not released.
Local mortuaries can't handle the influx of bodies.
"It seems to me that someone is trying very hard to start a religious war in this country."
When he goes back to work, surely there will be an elephant in the room.