Tanzania's🇹🇿 President Samia Suluhu Hassan says she believes the young people who poured on the streets demanding for electoral reforms did so because of "peer pressure, incitement and online wave" even as she forms a commission of inquiry to probe the indiscriminate killings by security forces.

President Donald Trump's US🇺🇸 government is processing a one-month sanctions waiver for the vice president of Equatorial Guinea🇬🇶, Teodoro “Teddy” Nguema Obiang, to travel to a high-level U.N. gathering in New York and visit other American cities. Source: @apnews.com

Tanzania's court has now banned live broadcasts of the firebrand opposition leader Tundu Lissu's trial in the high-profile treason case before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam. The ruling prohibits media outlets from publishing, broadcasting or disseminating witness details.

Mali's 🇲🇱 military rulers say they have arrested a suspected French🇫🇷 agent and a group of military personnel and civilians, including two Malian generals accused of attempting to destabilize the country in an alleged coup plot. @apnews.com.

Tanzania🇹🇿 blocks election observers from the East Africa Community #EAC and the Southern African Development Community #SADC, both of which it is a member, for its October 29 polls but grants permits to 12 Western observer diplomatic missions based in the country to observe the elections.

U.S and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to accept up to 250 migrants deported from the United States, President Paul Kagame's government says, stating that the migrants will be provided with "workforce training, healthcare, and accommodation support to jumpstart their lives in Rwanda."

Cameroon's 92-year-old President Paul Biya, the world's oldest head of state, has overhauled the military's top ranks in what analysts say is an effort to consolidate power by building a fortress of loyal army generals around him that can suppress any protest to his continued rule. @reuters.com.

Kenya exempts nationals of the following countries from obtaining the Electronic Travel Authorisation #eTA as per its Citizenship and Immigration (amendment) rules, 2025, says the move is aimed at easing travel across the continent. You do not need to apply for an ETA prior to entering Kenya.

Cameroon's🇨🇲 President Paul Biya, now 92, and the world's oldest serving head of state, has confirmed that he's running for an eighth term. If he wins this year's presidential election and completes the new seven-year mandate, Biya will be 99 years old in 2032 and could stay in power until he is 100.

Nigeria's 🇳🇬 former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has passed away while receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness at a clinic in London, UK, his family says. Buhari’s health has long been a topic of public interest, during his presidency, he frequently traveled abroad for medical treatment.

Tanzania's🇹🇿 Ambassador to Cuba, Humphrey Polepole, relinquishes his diplomatic role in Havanna and resigns from overseeing his country's interests in the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana, cites erosion of governance ethics under President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regime.

The U.S government announces that "effective immediately, most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria will be single-entry visas with a three-month validity period" citing it as a "reciprocity visa policy."

U.S President Donald Trump will host leaders from 5 African nations in Washington next week to discuss "commercial opportunities." They include President Bassirou Diomaye Faye (Senegal), Brice Oligui Nguema ( Gabon) , Umaro Sissoco Embaló (Guinea-Bissau) &Joseph Nyuma Boakai (Liberia). @reuters.com

At least seven people have been killed during a crackdown on protesters who are calling for Togo's leader, Faure Gnassingbé, to step down and release political prisoners. Gnassingbé has been president for two decades and his family has ruled the country for 58 years. Source: BBC

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's Tanzanian government has arrested two local YouTubers as it steps up a crackdown on dissent ahead of elections in October. Jackson Kabalo, 32, and Joseph Mrindoko, 37, were arrested in northern town of Arusha on Friday for “improper use of social media,” police say.

Rwanda🇷🇼, DRC🇨🇩 to sign Peace Agreement next week Friday in Washington D.C, U.S🇺🇸, President Donald Trump announces. "This is a great day for Africa and, quite frankly, a great day for the world," he says. Foreign Ministers of the #DRC and #Rwanda are expected in Washington on Monday.

President Bola Tinubu's Nigerian government is complaining that West African nations want to strike deals with the U.S. over energy and rare earth minerals, but the Trump administration's looming expansion of travel bans risks derailing those efforts. Source: @reuters.com.

Uganda's🇺🇬President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed legislation that allows military courts to try civilians despite a Supreme Court ruling banning the practice, calling it unconstitutional.

In a now-deleted X post, Kenya President William Ruto's government openly accuses Egypt, the UAE, Iran, Russia, and Colombia of exacerbating the conflict in Sudan, complicating peace efforts, and further escalating regional tensions.

U.S🇺🇸 Congressman Scott Perry(Pennsylvania) has introduced the Republic of #Somaliland Independence Act, legislation formally recognizing Somaliland as a separate, independent nation. The legislation authorizes President of the United States to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent nation.

China will negotiate and sign a new economic pact with Africa that will get rid of all tariffs on the 53 African states it has diplomatic ties with, it said, a move that could benefit middle-income nations. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The World Bank says it is resuming funding to Uganda🇺🇬, nearly two years after the global lender suspended new financing to the country in response to Uganda's parliament passing an anti-LGBT law that imposes penalties including death and life imprisonment. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Chad says it is suspending all visas to US citizens as a matter of "reciprocity" after learning that it's one of a dozen countries whose nationals are banned from travelling to US. Nationals of Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan are affected by the ban.

Ivory Coast's🇨🇮 main opposition party leader and former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam, 62, has been excluded from the country's final list of presidential candidates, rendering him ineligible to contest an October election. President Alassane Ouattara, 83, is expected to run for a fourth term.

Nigeria🇳🇬 plans to fence off its borders with Niger, Cameroon, Benin, and Chad to be completely curb the entrance of armed groups in the northeast led by Islamist militant group Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province. Source: @reuters.com

#Kenya🇰🇪 exempts holders of permanent residence, valid work permits, re-entry passes, and citizens of East African Community Partner States, a specific category of African countries, among others, from the requirement to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorization #eTA before entering the country.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu asked parliament to approve more than $21.5 billion in foreign borrowing for its 2025-26 borrowing plan to plug financial shortfalls to boost growth, according to a letter from the president seen by Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Uganda🇺🇬 opposition leader Bobi Wine, 43. "Some leaders in the West are complicit in our suffering. They are here to crack their (business) deals and they don't care about human rights. "If they were standing for the values that they profess, then they would be castigating human rights violations."

Eddie Mutwe, a Ugandan🇺🇬 opposition activist and the opposition leader Bobi Wine's chief bodyguard, who the eldest son of President Yoweri Museveni, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said he had been holding captive in his basement, was "brutalised and tortured", the country's Justice Minister Nobert Mao says.

Rwanda has confirmed that it is in the "early stage" of talks with the Trump administration to accept migrants deported by the US, Foreign Affairs Minister Olivier Nduhungireh says. Rwanda says that it accepts the "spirit" of giving "another chance to migrants who have problems across the world".

#Togo's🇹🇬 President Faure #Gnassingbe, whose family has ruled for nearly six decades, has been sworn in as "President of the Council of Ministers" - a new post which could see him rule for life. The new title is the country's highest executive office and confers no official term limits.

It is crucial that we continue to advocate for a free, independent, responsible press that can harness technology as new avenues for African storytelling while guarding against threats to journalistic integrity, misinformation and censorship. #WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2025 #Foreign #Press #Africa

Lydia Mugambe, A Ugandan and United Nations judge was jailed in Britain for more than six years on Friday for forcing a young woman to work to work as a maid without pay while the judge studied at the University of Oxford. www.reuters.com/world/uganda...

Burkina Faso to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, seeking a bigger share of revenue from its resources, the government says. The mining sector reforms have worried investors but says change is needed to maximize revenue from the its vast gold reserves. Source: @reuters.com.

World Food Programme, WFP, says it is suspending aid for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia due to a lack of funding. 3.6 million people are at risk of losing access to food aid in coming weeks unless new financial support can urgently be sourced. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Democratic Republic of Congo's government has suspended former President Joseph Kabila's political party and ordered his assets seized over accusations of supporting M23 rebels in the east, acts it says amounts to high treason. Prosecutors have been instructed to initiate proceedings against him.

A top Emirati diplomat said the Gulf state was disappointed at the failure of a London conference this week to find consensus on ending the two-year war in Sudan, as sources blamed differences between Arab states. www.reuters.com/world/no-fin...

The leader of a 2023 coup in #Gabon🇬🇦, General Brice Oligui #Nguema, 50, elected president with 90% of votes cast and will now lead the country for the next seven years, renewable once. Gabon’s military leader led the military coup that cut short the 55 years of dynastic rule of the Bongo family.

South Sudan's🇸🇸 President Salva Kiir has placed his longtime political rival and the country's First Vice President, Dr Riek Machar, under house arrest, UN warns the country risks losing the “hard-won gains of the past seven years” if the world’s newest nation returns to “a state of war”.

South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, Nicholas Haysom, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warns, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest peace effort. (AP).

Gabon's Constitutional Court approves a list of eight candidates to run in the nation's presidential election next month,including interim President Brice Oligui Nguema,who seized power in a military coup in 2023. Nguema, 50, ended the long-standing rule of his predecessor Ali Bongo and his family.

Guinea-Bissau's 🇬🇼 President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, chases away #ECOWAS officials who went to #Bissau to remind him that his mandate officially ended on Feb. 27 and shouldn't push elections to Nov. 30, a date well beyond when he is required to vacate office.

Sudan's 🇸🇩army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has expressed regret and frustration at Kenya 🇰🇪 President William Ruto's government for hosting groups affiliated with Hamdan Dagalo's Rapid Support Forces in Nairobi. "It is tantamount to an act of hostility against the entire Sudanese people."

Liberia 🇱🇷 President Joseph Boakai suspends, without pay, more than 400 top officials in his administration, including the minister of commerce and industry and ambassadors to the US, UK and United Nations, for failing to declare their assets, incomes, and liabilities to the anti-corruption agency.

Eastern & Southern Africa leaders demand for immediate ceasefire in eastern #DRC🇨🇩, where M23 rebels are threatening to overthrow government, but also demand Rwanda🇷🇼 lifts its defensive measures & disengage its forces from DRC. They call for the neutralization of the #FDLR rebels opposed to Kagame.

Malawi's 🇲🇼 President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered defense forces to begin preparations for a withdrawal of its troops from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC 🇨🇩, a statement said on Wednesday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC 🇨🇩has begun a mandatory recruitment of its young people aged 18 and older to join its armed forces #FARDC at the orders issued by President Felix Tshisekedi, even as the country's mineral-rich east endures a major escalation of one of Africa’s longest conflicts.

Today, the three military-led Sahel neighbors, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, have formally withdrawn from the West African regional bloc #ECOWAS, which they accuse of being influenced by France in sanctioning them for the coups. The three breakaway states have formed Alliance of Sahel States.

Congolese soldiers positioned on Mount Goma, a hill within the city, are exchanging artillery fire with Rwandan troops on the other side of the border, in the town of Gisenyi, according to two U.N. sources speaking from a U.N. site between the two, according to Reuters.

Congolese soldiers tell @reuters.com that M23 rebel group is quickly moving on Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and home to over 1 million people, and is just about 2km from the airport. "We're at the Goma airport awaiting the attackers who are two or three km (1.2-1.9 miles) from here."