16 Apr 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Times Live. United Kingdom (UK)-headquartered Tullow Oil says it will sell its Kenyan assets to Oman-headquartered Gulf Energy for $120m as it seeks to reduce its debt;

15 Apr 2025 Burundi (Bujumbura) IMF. International Monetary Fund (IMF) completes its 2025 Article IV Mission to Burundi, confirming growth reached 3.5% in 2024;

15 Apr 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) The New Times. Rwanda Development Board’s 2024 report reveals exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) increased by 63.9% from $951.2m in 2023 to over $1.55 billion in 2024;

14 Apr 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Times Live. Congolese officials and M23 rebels’ negotiators are reported to have arrived in Doha (Qatar) last week to discuss a ceasefire;

14 Apr 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Africanews. African Union (AU) appoints Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé as the new AU mediator for the conflict in eastern DRC;

14 Apr 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) The New Times. Heavy rains between 10 and 13 April kill at least four people and damage approximately 70 hectares of crops;

14 Apr 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) FT. India launches its largest-ever joint naval exercise, co-hosted by Tanzania and including Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius and South Africa;

13 Apr 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) BBC. Independent National Elections Commission bars main opposition Chadema from running in the upcoming presidential election as it has failed to sign a code of conduct document that was due on Saturday;

11 Apr 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) New Vision. A team of 27 soldiers concludes a visit to Uganda’s agriculture ministry and National Enterprise Corporation (NEC), the commercial arm of the defence ministry, as part of a four-day study;

11 Apr 2025 Asmara (Eritrea) Sudan Tribune. President Isaias Afwerki meets with Sudan’s de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to discuss the ongoing conflict in Sudan and bilateral relations;

11 Apr 2025 Kampala (Uganda) The Guardian. Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, confirms he will run in the 2026 presidential election;

10 Apr 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) BBC. Police use tear gas to disperse a crowd that gathered to watch a controversial play at a national high school drama competition;

10 Apr 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) eNCA. Police charge main opposition Chadema’s leader, Tundu Lissu, with treason, a charge that does not allow bail to be granted;

10 Apr 2025 Washington DC (United States) FT. President Donald Trump announces a 90-day pause on the tariffs he announced last week, implementing a blanket 10% tariff until July on all countries that did not respond to the initial announcement;

9 Apr 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Business Live. Former president Joseph Kabila says he will return to DRC from South Africa, where he has been living for a year, to help find a solution to the conflict in eastern DRC;

9 Apr 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Opposition Chadema party confirms police arrested its leader, Tundu Lissu, after he addressed a political rally that police dispersed with tear gas;

8 Apr 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) AP News. A senior advisor to United States’s President Donald Trump, Massad Boulos, visit Rwanda and meets with President Paul Kagame to discuss bilateral relations and the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC);